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U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke on a video call on Friday about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Chinese media said Xi underlined that such conflicts are in no-one’s interests.
Even with Russia removed from the global fertilizer market, it still doesn’t create worst-case scenario. StoneX Group says China could make the situation worse, as China and Russia account for 40% of global phosphate.
The Right to Repair movement in agriculture is a popular cause with farmers, for various good and questionable reasons. As multiple states create Right to Repair rules, it looks like we may be watching the wrong battle.
How much power do game wardens possess without a warrant or probable cause? A hunting club lawsuit is heating up over the bounds of government access to private land.
Scientists expect corn hybrids containing the technology will help farmers regain the upper hand over a variety of above-ground and below-ground pests that current technology is struggling to contain.
The U.S. is the second or third top importer for each of the three major components of fertilizer. Top producers of the major components of fertilizer include China, Russia, Canada, Morocco and Belarus.
The U.S. is “no where near” having 100% of the fertilizer products farmers need at planting, according to The Fertilizer Institute. Soil sampling and good nutrient stewardship principles are more important than ever.
Brazil’s soybean crop seems to be shrinking. Estimates by AgResource earlier this month show a soybean crop under 120 MMT, and it’s yet another slash to crop estimates that are at a level not even USDA has touched yet.
Ukraine has only recently become a corn and soy export competitor, but was the breadbasket of Europe for centuries. Ukraine has about two-thirds of the richest soils in continental Europe.
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As part of the nationwide Farm Credit System, Farm Credit Mid-America takes its purpose to secure the future of rural communities and agriculture to heart.
The profit estimates are based on fall delivery prices of $6 corn and $14 soybeans, according to Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois Extension economist and Soybean Industry Chair in Agricultural Strategy.
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie shares his recommendations for early-planted soybeans — with the goal of getting the plants to flower before the summer solstice on June 21.
If Latin is Greek to you, allow me to translate: “Things are awful these days, especially Japanese camp food, and it’s other people’s fault. Mostly young people.”
Sometimes change stems from major events in our life and our farm that fundamentally shift your mindset.
It’s in low supply, and the price is high -- if you can even get it. This checklist can help you get the best weed control outcomes from whatever supply of glyphosate you were able to secure for this season.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has now been confirmed in Iowa, Kansas and Illinois.
Common goals, trust and open communication feed Pennsylvania operation
March 11 (Reuters) - Global farm commodities trader Cargill Inc (CARG.UL) said on Friday it was scaling back its business activities in Russia and has stopped investments in the country.
(Reuters) - The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens millions of tiny spring-time sprouts that should emerge from stalks of dormant winter wheat in the coming weeks.
On this episode of “American Countryside,” host Andrew McCrea travels to the place where the piggy bank was born.
While prices might be strong, what those bushels will buy isn’t what it was pre-pandemic.
Hot-button issues in agriculture and rural America are sometimes subject to filters via message and messenger, contends Chris Gibbs.
Grain producers enter a third pandemic-era planting season with some traditional and new risks ahead, highlighting the need for risk management tools.
If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it.
The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee was paid to allow tick infested and diseased cattle to enter the country, according to an indictment filed in a Laredo federal court last week.
“Before the war with Ukraine, the President encouraged Russia to produce more oil to help us lower the price at the pump,” says U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS). “That’s so hypocritical.”
UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) - Biden: US ban on Russian oil a ‘powerful blow’ to ‘Putin’s war,’ warns Americans ‘defending freedom is going to cost.’