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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
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Lawmakers aim for year-end deal as midterm elections loom.
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If crops showed yellow stress before knee-high, surface inhibitors or the wrong nutrient form were likely to blame. Ken Ferrie explains how choosing the right fertilizer forms and why banded placement delivers twice the horsepower.
Starting this fall, FBN’s Norm will surface daily, farm-specific insights, and by spring it aims to act on them, with Google supplying the AI models.
With debates over SNAP, Prop 12 and E15 heading to the full chamber, one Arkansas senator emphasizes bipartisan momentum to protect family farms.
A hot, sunny August accelerated maturity, while timely rain around pollination helped protect some yield potential. But as harvest is now on pause, early results show extreme variability across fields and planting dates.
Farmers are running fewer machines for longer hours, turning to high-tech retrofits and leveraging improved cash-flow expectations to upgrade existing equipment.
High feed costs, retail resistance and resuming Mexican imports signal lower prices, but structural supply limits offer downside protection.
Drought forced Kentucky farmer Quint Pottinger to cut costs. His answer: a driverless retrofit kit, a smaller tractor and an 8-row planter that now plant his 2,000 acres of row crops on their own.
Strong mid-horsepower prices in Mississippi, low-hour gems in Ohio and an 84% drop in late-model inventory highlight why clean used equipment continues to command top dollar.
The Night Sweats frontman says the mission to support small farms endures, even as rural communities face new challenges like data center expansion.
China cuts tariffs on $60 billion in goods but holds soybeans as leverage for future negotiations, disappointing markets.
Corteva will pay $35 million to 12 states and accept 10 years of limits on distributor rebates that the FTC says kept cheaper generic pesticides away from farmers. The case against Syngenta continues.
“Fed to the Wolves,” debuts Oct. 1, and its producers contend it reveals deep damage to agriculture and hunting in rural Minnesota and lack of action by state officials.
With diesel hitting a record $6.51 per gallon, lawmakers are weighing export curbs that could trigger an immediate domestic price drop — though market experts warn any relief will be short-lived.
More yield means more residue, and elevated diesel prices equal a costly fall. Mosaic Biosciences’ new enzyme digester costs about $10 an acre. Application timing decides whether that money buys field operations, emergence/final stand or nutrients.
Kansas Sens. Moran and Marshall call for Department of Homeland Security coordination after unannounced federal enforcement shakes farms, packing plants and rural communities near Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal.