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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.
Damage remains along the tornado’s 220-mile path nearly a year after the deadly tornado tore through Mayfield, Kentucky. Farmers and ag businesses are still working to restore their operations.
While so much has been done in the year since the tornado hit, Mayfield still has a long road of recovery ahead. The community continues to come together to aid a long-term recovery and create a Christmas comeback.
With some structures still standing but severely damaged, with just yards away other buildings barely touched, the calculus of destruction to this rural town was cruelly selective.
Mayfield’s largest employer, Pilgrim’s Pride continues to invest in its workforce and the community following the deadly December tornado in 2021 even donating more than $1 million to rebuild homes and infrastructure.
Even though USDA’s December report didn’t drastically change the supply and demand balance sheets across the U.S. or around the world, Joe Vaclavik does caution producers about one concern as farmers look ahead to 2023.
Every year farmers push the yield envelope on their farm. The agronomic approach is different for every farmer, but an NCGA Yield Contest winner has some advice.
Is there a useful explanation of crypto? As John Phipps points out, the FTX fiasco demonstrated crypto is unregulated, and says if you can’t explain it, don’t invest in it, no matter how attractive the reward.
Check out this pair of tractors that sold on Dec. 3 in Missouri.
John Phipps has noticed more unsettling problems for the second-largest nation to the point that despite their skills and accomplishment, he thinks China is heading for trouble. He explains why in John’s World.
There are dozens of fuel additives on the market designed to prevent or reduce gelling of diesel fuel in cold weather. The problem is there are no mandatory standards for testing the performance of anti-gel additives.
Officials have been bracing for an influx of migrants when the authority lifts on Dec. 21. The Dept. of Homeland Security is projecting 14,000 migrants may then attempt to cross the U.S. southern border per day.
Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro told reporters in Mexico Wednesday the decree to bar imports of GMO crops into Mexico will be pushed back to 2025.
Some hybrids require nitrogen early, some require it late.
International Energy Agency sees an extra 2,400 gigawatts of capacity coming online worldwide over the next five years, with renewables surpassing coal as the largest source of global power generation by 2025.
Iowa State Extension agronomists say there are at least two strategies farmers can consider using in 2023 to address this phenomenon, especially if they expect to be hit by hot, dry weather conditions again next summer.
Through a series of extremely poor energy policies, the Biden administration is creating an environment that will produce dire consequences for American consumers, business owners and agriculture producers.
Here are four proactive ways to prepare your farm business for 2023.
Georgia voters today will decide the final Senate contest in the country, choosing between Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
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Over the past two years cash rental rates are up 6% nationally, according to USDA. Here’s how to be proactive with this big cost for your farm.
With the current season fresh on your mind, beware the temptation to base too much of your 2023 plan on what you encountered in 2022, cautions Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Renewable diesel capacity topped 2 billion gallons per year as of August, according to the latest data released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But EPA used a lower figure.
Foreign investors own 37.6 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, which is 2.9% of all privately held agricultural land and 1.7% of all U.S. land.
Europeans argue that the act is a beggar-thy-neighbor scheme designed to lure investors away from Europe, just as the region’s economy teeters on the verge of recession.
While U.S. agriculture isn’t facing an existential threat, the same cannot be said for farmers abroad, particularly in the developing world.
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According to Biden’s economic advisors, as many as 765,000 Americans — many union workers themselves — would have been put out of work in the first two weeks of shutdowns.
The top official in charge of China’s COVID-19 response told health officials Wednesday that the country faced a “new stage and mission” in pandemic controls.
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A key financial ratio we watch at LandOwner Newsletter suggests the financial health of the agriculture sector is still strong and not overly leveraged.