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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.
The initiative is designed to help create a unique digital carbon footprint measurement to drive more sustainable supply chains and mitigate the impact agriculture has on the environment.
The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are seeking comment on the pre-2015 WOTUS rule published in the Federal Register.
Giving of our time, talents and money is an important part of helping others.
A USDA-National Resources Inventory report shows soil erosion rates on cropland decreased 35% from 1982 to 2017. Even so, some members of the agricultural community say rates are unsustainable for crop production.
This winter, dive into these topics. Don’t assume; have the talk.
Some of the best farm operators I know have had enough with complexity. They pride themselves, and their operations, on being simple.
Look ahead to potential situations including the debt ceiling, WHIP+, President Biden’s challenges, and foreign hotspots.
Profanity is often the first impulse after breaking a bolt. After that, try these ideas.
Here are a few good facts, tips and reminders about common fasteners.
Every mechanic has an illicit stash of salvaged treasures.
Brazing is a skill that approaches art. Do it right and it’s a thing of beauty. Do it wrong and you’re reaching for a can of spray paint to hide blobby abominations.
Don’t let the excitement of getting in the field this spring provoke planting mistakes.
There are farmers, there are professional mechanics, and then there are farmer-mechanics. You qualify as a farmer-mechanic if:
The hunger for dairy products internationally is on pace to set new records in 2021, much of that due to China. Supply chain hurdles haven’t curbed the record demand so far, and experts say that’s been no easy feat.
Understand and weigh your operation’s options.
Build your farm’s future based on its past.
Commodity markets were on a rollercoaster ride this week, with a sharp drop to end November and then a recovery to end the first few days of December. Analysts say that volatility might just be getting started.
Attorneys in the massive chicken antitrust price-fixing class action lawsuits have been granted more than $100 million in legal fees by a U.S. District Judge in the Northern District of Illinois.
Rising costs could lower fertilizer rates in 2022.
The company says its program will help farmers reduce their CO2 emissions and will be launched in phases starting next year.
Short morning meetings set the framework for how your team maximizes its time.
With all the crippling kinks and missing links in the supply chain, it looks like Christmas could be positively Dickensian.
What really makes yield per acre? It’s not plant population—that’s merely one component.
Midwinter is a great time to rejuvenate the Great Chain Lubrication Debate.
In 2007, Casey Kimbrell pulled the handbrake on life, questioned the fundamentals of agriculture, and determined to topple the assumed pillar of farm function—debt.
This population of waterhemp is currently resistant to six herbicide groups and is now “activating detoxification genes before the herbicides can do harm,” says one researcher.
The White House says 95.6% of USDA employees have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or filed for an exemption, but the number who’ve received the vaccine is the lowest among reported federal agencies.
Farm Journal Foundation’s Farmer Ambassador Program enables farmers to take agriculture’s story to Washington D.C.
As an agriculture cooperative that provides a host of warehousing and logistics services in a highly time-sensitive industry.
President Biden planned to meet with chief executives of major retailers and companies to discuss how to move goods to shelves as the U.S. holiday shopping season begins in the shadow of the Omicron coronavirus variant.