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Agtech startups have raised more than $320 million in 2017. That’s three times the amount raised over the same period in 2016.
Feel like you’re having a rotten day? You probably aren’t having as bad a day as these folks.
Representatives from the Clinton and Trump Campaigns shared their stances on several key Agricultural issues this week in Washington DC.
After a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump last week, the CEOs of Bayer and Monsanto are promising an increase in American jobs and more funding for research and development. As Politico reports, this is the latest in a trend of one-to-one meetings between Trump and CEOs, with a focus on U.S. job retention.
As Americans head to the polls on Election Day, there have been dozens of polls and surveys attempting to predict the outcome of not only the presidential election, but hotly contested U.S. Senate and House races as well. As media companies and universities attempt to take the political pulse of America, we at Farm Journal have decided to conduct our own, unscientific exit poll.
After the USDA’s June 30 acreage report last Friday, some people were questioning its accuracy. The March 30 prospective planting report had corn and soybeans within 500 thousand acres of each other, and many anticipated some of those corn acres moving to beans after April and May made for one of the wettest springs on record. But the June report widened that gap to 1.4 million acres, with corn currently estimated at 90.9 million acres and soybeans at 89.5 million acres.
Tornadoes and high winds swept through Indiana on Wednesday, damaging buildings and crops.