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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.
While China purchases have been a big part of the record U.S. export figures USDA just announced, it has more to do with growing demand, than our trade relationship.
How to develop a “Code of Conduct” to guide your interactions with job applicants.
It was another volatile week in the markets. After soybean prices saw consecutive days of prices falling double-digits, the market rebounded Thursday and Friday. Arlan Suderman and Chip Nellinger navigate the markets.
Fertilizer prices, led by CF Industries, fell in Thursday’s trading. Nitrogen prices reportedly plunged 30%, partly due to demand destruction.
Participants who seek this one-time, voluntary termination do not have to repay rental payments. But they must make requests for voluntary termination in writing through their local USDA office.
This spring about 100 growers in New York started shipping corn and soybeans to Europe and Africa, via the Great Lakes Seaway system.
To help stem a food crisis, USDA announced it will allow CRP participants in the final year of their contract to request voluntary termination following the end of the nesting season for 2022.
Memorial Day weekend is known as the unofficial kickoff to grilling season. Even with the push to more plant-based proteins, meat is still in high demand. Millennials are one of the largest groups of meat eaters.
Each Memorial Day we remember loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers every day of the year. Meet the Arlington Ladies.
My thoughtful explanation about replacing sliced bread with pop-tarts as the “greatest thing since” was refuted by readers who listed their alternatives.
We’ve all heard the phrase, “the greatest thing since sliced bread,” but where did it begin? It was an inventor named Otto Rohwedder who knew he could improve on the whole loaf of bread.
Nationally farmers were able to plant a quarter of the corn and soybean crop last week... and that was also the case in states like Illinois.
USDA is making $200 million available to create a new meat processing capacity expansion program, providing $25 million for workforce training under the Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program (MPILP).
USDA raised its estimated range of 6.5%-7.5% y/y increase from a range of 5%-6%, according to the May Food Price Outlook report, the highest forecast for all food prices and restaurant prices since 1981.
U.S. soybean futures fell on Wednesday, with forecasts for improved planting weather in northern growing areas pressuring prices.
The recovery from this year’s high path avian influenza outbreak is taking place much quicker than in 2015, despite the fact that the virus is more virulent.
Crucial Rains Finally Drenched Portions of Texas, Is It Enough to Save the State’s Crops and Cattle?
Texas received crucial rains this week, reviving farmers’ hopes of producing a crop this year. A dire drought situation already robbed farmers of their winter wheat, but rains are now sprouting hope for other crops.
Few things are more annoying than being broke down in the field and knowing you have the perfect tool to make the repair … back in your shop.
Information arrives every day in our lives as a mashup of seemingly unconnected ideas, facts and guesses.
Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for the lifting of some sanctions, Interfax news agency reported, citing Russian Deputy Foreign Minister.
Our recent AgWeb.com poll posed the question: What is your favorite fair food?
Welcome to a rags to rows farm tale. Cody Parker is insistent: His success is directly linked to the kindness of other farmers.
After making it through the spring planting season, sometimes with the help of bulletproof vests and helmets, Ukraine’s farmers are facing another challenge – finding enough diesel for the harvest to come.
Estimates of when new routes will be regular shipping lanes keep advancing. It looks like the long-awaited transpolar shipping route could be a real thing around 2050. John Phipps explains why and the possible impact
Serving military veterans across the country, NCAT’s Armed to Farm training provides resources and education for veterans to start and operate their own agricultural business.
President Biden spent last weekend in Tokyo, Japan. During the visit, Biden announced a dozen Indo-Pacific countries will join the U.S. in a “sweeping” economic initiative, primarily focused on countering China.
The White House is considering waiving U.S. gasoline environmental rules aimed at reducing summertime smog, hoping the waiver will combat rising pump prices, Reuters reported.
Is private land a federal playground? The government claims a phenomenally powerful right—access and surveillance on every inch of farmland, hunting ground, and pasture in the U.S., without warrant or probable cause.
Gas prices are above $4 a gallon in every state for the first time ever, and with the average price of gasoline posting another new record Thursday, it’s causing shoppers to alter their appetites at the grocery store.
U.S. President Joe Biden has not ruled out using export restrictions to ease soaring domestic fuel prices, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Tuesday.