AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Once operational in late 2024, American Foods Group’s new beef facility in Warren County, Missouri, will process 2,400 head of cattle per day.
Grain shipments on some railroads could stop as early as Wednesday, two days ahead of a possible rail strike. A rail stoppage is growing more likely as the country’s main rail unions remain at odds with rail companies.
Widespread railroad disruptions could choke supplies of food and fuel, spawn transportation chaos, stoke inflation and cause $2 billion per day in lost economic output.
Corn and soybean production will both be down from 2021, according to USDA’s September Crop Production report. That news sent prices higher for both markets.
Be it technology or agronomic practices, it tends to evolve over time into tangible results that slowly tug yields higher. Here are ways your corn fields will likely be pulled in upcoming years.
All eyes are on the corn supply and demand numbers in USDA’s September WASDE report but there will be plenty of other information to focus on.
When it comes to crop protection, one company is building a complete portfolio.
Lingering drought in California has continued to cut into fruit and vegetable production this season and force farmers to make tough decisions about how to allocate their scarce water resources.
Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, recently passed away at the age of 96. The late queen, who was well-known for her soft spot for animals, had a herd of 200 registered Jersey cows.
When you go on a 2,700-mile personal crop tour through parts of eight states, you see a lot of corn and soybeans and get a sense of where there will be stellar yields as well as below-average results this harvest.