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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 House Ag Committee passed the Cattle Contract Library Act of 2021 by unanimous vote on Thursday. Supporters say the act would give greater transparency to cattle markets and more leverage to producers.
Monday’s reveal of the Senate’s updated cattle market reform bill generated some strong opinions from a cross-section of industry stakeholders, but no consensus.
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Government agency clears easier path for commercial use.
Maybe it’s just because I’m an aging engineer whose dreams of the future were largely shaped in the 1950s and 60s, but the recent debut of a concept autonomous tractor by CNH Industrial riveted my attention.
“We would change the rules so hearing aids could be available over the counter at your local drugstore for walk-in and pickup”, Ramamurti says. “It would cost a couple hundred dollars instead of a few thousand.”
EPA proposes to reduce biofuels blending levels, add a supplemental obligation to volumes and reject 65 pending applications for small refinery exemptions.
EPA public comment on WOTUS closed on Feb. 11. Industry leaders and lawmakers are rushing to plead their Clean Water Act case with agency officials.
The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee held its first hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard for the first time since 2016.
AgriTalk Host Chip Flory says some people would argue E25 or E30 is the proper blending target.
A bipartisan group of senators penned a letter to President Biden, urging his administration to mitigate rising fuel costs by increasing higher blends of American biofuels.
EPA believes the current pesticide approval system has major “unsustainable and legally tenuous” setbacks. Courts currently dictate ESA cases for the EPA, but this new workplan will allow the Agency to work alone.
Stakeholders applaud President Biden following months of pleading for increased biofuel availability while others set the record straight on biofuel impacts on the climate.
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) gets a lot of headline time in agriculture as it directly correlates with corn and soybeans. Understanding the dynamics of RFS and the role government agencies play is another ballgame.
The agency says it will allow 31 facilities to meet their 2018 obligations without purchasing credits to show compliance with the law due to “extenuating circumstances.”
In early April, President Biden—ahead of EPA—formally announced the suspension of a federal rule that prohibits the sale of E15 blended biofuels during summer months in hopes of alleviating rising pump prices.
AgLaunch and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture announce the first seven farmer-led projects connecting farmers with pre-commercial technology
The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit takes place in San Francisco on March 20-21. The event brings together more 900 major global agribusinesses, investors and ag-tech start-ups.
13 startups recognized with AgFunder Innovation Awards
“Precision agriculture owes its existence to the technology that now orbits the Earth and pretty much runs everything down below.”
“Farmers have to have a laser focus on what will make them money in the coming year because we have really tight margins, and technologies should be looked at as what can help immediately.”
AgLaunch, based in Memphis, Tenn., will be expanding its Farm-Centric Innovation Model to create agriculture businesses, attract investment capital, and enable farmers to participate in the innovation process.
There may be too many investors with little or no knowledge about the Ag space who are latching onto the latest investment craze. Will it backfire?
Bowery, an indoor farming company that deploys a lot of high-tech solutions – including propriety software systems, robotics and monitoring plants via machine learning – announces it has secured a Series A funding round of $20 million from several investors, including General Catalyst, GGV and GV.
At the very heart of agriculture is the drive to feed the world. AgTech is enabling farmers to do this more efficiently and effectively than ever, and major investors are watching closely.
Agtech startups have raised more than $320 million in 2017. That’s three times the amount raised over the same period in 2016.
Memphis-based AgLaunch Accelerator says it’s critical for agriculture to advance and adapt to keep up. With a fresh $50,000 investment, the group intends to put new technologies into farmers hands, faster.
The disconnect between those that are creating new innovations and the farm is dramatically lowering the probability of success for new agricultural ventures, which is in turn giving investors pause and is certainly not accelerating adoption quickly.
A ‘new agricultural revolution’ is brewing, and farmers are in the center of it.