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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.
Friday is the end of the public comment period for a highly controversial climate rule that could negatively impact the nation’s food producers.
Evaluate your crop’s vulnerability to the destructive force of tar spot.
Did High Heat And Humidity Really Cause Cattle Deaths In Kansas? The Latest Look at Potential Losses
Feedyards battled through the intense conditions to keep their cattle safe this week. The heat and humidity proved devastating, and estimates point to western Kansas feedlots seeing losses of 100 to 500 head per day.
Record-breaking heat. Unprecedented flooding. Hail that proved to be devastating to corn fields in Nebraska. The extreme weather can all be attributed to a ridge of high pressure parked over the country.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act is on its way to the president for his signature.
The milestone one-millionth tractor produced in Beauvais – a brand-new MF 8S.305 Dyna-VT – is sold to French farmer Thierry Aubrée.
Arm mangled inside a hay baler, Doug Bichler fought a gruesome battle for life, determined to escape the machine at all costs.
CLAAS unveiled the industry’s first fully suspended half-track tractor—the AXION 900 TERRA TRAC (TT)—on Tuesday, in which the front axle is wheeled while the back of the tractor features a suspended rubber track.
With the extreme heat in cattle feeding areas there have been reports of death losses.
Here are a few thoughts on oils used to lubricate gasoline-fueled engines.
Traction, a cloud-based accounting software, is now connected to Climate FieldView. This enables field records from FieldView to be assigned actual product and equipment costs from accounting transactions.
In a letter sent to President Biden, the Republicans argue the situation started before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying the administration has failed to take serious action to increase agricultural production.
EPA hosted its fifth WOTUS roundtable last week with the Kansas Livestock Association, revealing murky waters in the WOTUS definition.
Farmers in the corn belt are facing both prevent plant and replant situations this spring.
Local waterways are an important part of your community. When they’re healthy, they have the potential to benefit everyone, including you:
Diesel prices are causing sticker shock, as fears of a possible diesel shortage are growing. It’s not just retail diesel prices that are rapidly rising. Some farmers report booking off-road diesel for above $5.
One big emerging threat is alpha-gal which is short for galactose-alpha – a carbohydrate deposited by the tick that triggers a severe allergic reaction in the digestive system after eating red meat.
Don E. Funk, fourth-generation seedsman and grandson of seed industry pioneer, Edward J. Funk, died June 9, 2022, of natural causes.
POET, the world’s largest ethanol producer, has signed a letter of intent to capture and ship carbon from 18 of its ethanol plants in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota to be stored in Illinois.
On May 27 a proposed $1.1 billion beef and bison packing plant for Rapid City, South Dakota. They have now announced the name and a new partnership.
Pork producers recently set sustainability goals for the industry, but a new On-Farm Sustainability Report is revealing the environmental improvements many pork producers have already achieved.
Farmers reported selling old crop soybeans for $18 and cash corn sits above $8 in some areas. The prices are proving to be painful for pork producers sourcing feed, and it’s possible those prices climb even higher.
After hitting record highs, fertilizer prices are finally cooling down.
How an epic convoy and legendary farmer army shook Washington, D.C.
Welcome to a tale too insane for fiction: a cottonmouth farmer seeking a snake venom crop for harvest.
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The guidelines you need to follow to file and participate in the new ERP are not simple, says Paul Neiffer, a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen. He addresses what roadblocks farmers might encounter in the process.
Grower sentiment plummeted to a reading of just 99 in May, the lowest in two years. The dramatic rise in input costs “creates havoc in people’s minds,” says Jim Mintert, report co-author.
High demand, low supply send planter and combine prices to the moon.
The reaction of the ethanol industry has been mixed regarding the EPA’s release of the final Renewable Volume Obligations under the Renewable Fuels Standard.