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Enrollment of more than 800,000 acres of land into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), including 411,000 acres via general signup 49, another 364,000 acres under continuous signup efforts and 101,000 acres via the new CRP Grasslands effort, has been announced by USDA.
We’ve seen this accelerating financial constraint environment in farming before. And it clearly is upon us. Key question: How long will it last? While some say two to three more years, others say longer.
Using technology and data-mining are two of the ways that USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is utilizing to make sure the integrity of the federal crop insurance program is intact.
Krysta Harden, the former U.S. deputy secretary of agriculture, will join DuPont as vice president of public policy and chief sustainability officer.
Producers have taken out marketing assistance loans (MALs) an increasing amount of 2015-crop corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum, according to USDA data.
Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete and Meghan Pedersen discuss farm bill safety net options.
It is generally viewed as “farmer-friendly,” but certain components are cause for concerns for some.
A coalition spanning grocer Kroger Co. to Iowa soybean growers is on the verge of victory with a deal on a five-year agriculture bill in a Congress that can’t seem to agree on much of anything.
After five calendar years of efforts, the farm bill is nearing completion.
A total of ten cases of bird flu have been confirmed in turkey flocks in Indiana. On Saturday, nine more commercial turkey farms in Dubois County tested positive for bird flu besides the initial case confirmed Friday, Jan. 15. All infected flocks are located in Dubois County. State health officials say further testing is underway to determine the virus type -- the initial case was determined to be H7N8 HPAI.