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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.
AgDay’s national reporter Betsy Jibben talks with Don Close of Rabo AgriFinance and Peter Zeihan, a Geopolitical Strategist and Author.
Four-legged Woody saved the day when Joe Sheeran’s life flashed before his eyes. Pinned beneath a cow, he thought it was all over until his 8-month-old Australian Shepherd came to his rescue.
EPA says it has surveyed Superfund sites in flooded areas of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
The average trade estimate is 91.332 million acres for corn, 86.169 million soybean acres, 46.915 million wheat acres, according to a poll by Reuters.
The Prospective Plantings report, combined with the quarterly Grain Stocks report showed the U.S. has too much of everything, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
NASS Eliminates An Objective Yield Survey; Year-Round E15 Closer to Reality; The Trade War Takes A Heavy Toll
While he says soybeans are the most important, Nicholson outlined a handful that he sees as equally important to U.S. agriculture.
Global trade is helping with beef demand and countries like China will play an important role in years to come.
U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) President and CEO Dan Halstrom will be addressing participants at the National Pork Industry Forum on Thursday, March 7.
Does the government make any money on crop insurance? That’s a viewer’s question during Customer Support. John breaks down is explanation.
The data was five years in the making. What will it tell us about farms, farming and farmers?
As usual, there’s farmer buzz and speculation about the accuracy of the numbers because many farmers don’t fill out the survey.
The 2017 Census of Agriculture found a 3% decline in the total number of farms in the U.S., and that since the 1997 Ag Census the decline has been 7.8%.
After accepting payments for approving USDA loans for cash payments, a former Farm Service Agency loan officer will spend two years in federal prison.
Agriculture industry leaders warn such a closure would likely cause more hardship forcing some farms out of business.
USDA will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture on Thursday, April 11. Ahead of the data release, take a look at some key data sets from the 2012 edition.
The Democrat-led New York state Senate is holding the first of three hearings dedicated to proposals to expand the labor rights of farmworkers.
The Missouri Senate has passed a bill to block local officials from regulating industrial farms more strictly than the state does.
12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to cease issuing Renewable Identification Number (RIN) waivers also known as “hardship” waivers.
President Donald Trump remains in U.S. farmers’ good graces, according to the latest Farm Journal Pulse survey.
More than 960 groups representing the U.S. food and agriculture value chain at the national, state and local are urging Congress to quickly ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Mexico is the largest volume destination for U.S. pork exports and the third-largest export market for U.S. beef.
Following the trade aid announcement earlier this week, farmers were left with more questions than answers.
A key deadline is set to lapse Monday that could lead to permanent U.S. tariffs on Mexican tomato imports, with costs potentially hitting American consumers when the weather turns cold later this year.
For the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing small refinery hardship waivers, which allow the awarded refiners to forgo blending ethanol with their fuels.
EPA on Friday granted 31 more controversial waivers allowing refiners for forgo blending requirements of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
While the payments are a blanket rate by county, there’s no blanket suggestion on what farmers should do with those funds.
The Chinese government has asked its state-owned enterprises to suspend imports of U.S. agricultural products.
Farmers’ discontent over President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China erupted into the open Wednesday as his agriculture secretary was confronted at a fair in rural Minnesota.