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The report found nitrogen accounts for more than 50% of fertilizer costs for a corn producer at $117 per acre.
Your daily weather forecast from AgDay Meteorologist Matt Yarosewick.
Tree-of-Heaven is an invasive species, but now researchers may have found a way to control it.
I have long maintained everyone should be required do their own income taxes.
AFBF President Zippy Duvall told members this week he will continue to press for policy that progresses agriculture, citing AFBF’s work on changes to the White House’s “America the Beautiful” plan as an example.
Evaluating market fundamentals has led most analysts to project stronger price trends over the next few years. But just how high could prices go? Studying market patterns over the last 30 years provides valuable clues.
The EPA says prior to Jan. 11, 2022, the agency “did not consistently assess the potential effects of conventional pesticides on listed species when registering new active ingredients.”
USDA made slight adjustments to the final 2021 corn-production estimate, but not due to a change in yield. USDA reported a slightly higher national soybean yield. The agency also revised demand in WASDE on Wednesday.
A new report from Texas A&M Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) a 50% rise in fertilizer prices equates to an average of $128,000 per farm. The largest per-acre impact would falls on rice farms at $62.04 an acre.
AFBF’s in-person annual convention focused on everything from H-2A workers, drought, supply chain chaos and policy changes like the Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed the group Monday.
As a 2018 Nuffield Scholar, Archie Griffin traveled to 16 countries to study how farms can find success if their primary products are facing declining consumption, value and profit margins.
Archer Daniels Midland Company said on Tuesday it had signed a letter of intent with Wolf Carbon Solutions to build a pipeline that would capture and transport carbon.
By Stephanie Kelly Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.S.
China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday it will continue to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs on imports of distillers grains (DDGS) from the United States during a review period.
USDA will release several reports Wednesday, January 12, including Crop Production, Grain Stocks and WASDE. With declining outlooks for South America’s crop, Garrett Toay and Brian Splitt break down what to watch.
Archie Griffin used his Nuffield International Farming scholarship to study how farms can find success if their primary products are facing declining consumption, value and profit margins.
India has agreed to allow imports of U.S. pork and pork products into its country.
Have record high fertilizer prices finally peaked? While prices continue to remain high right now, there were some signs last week and already this week that indicate some relief and stability may be in sight.
The volatility in commodity markets seems to be picking up where prices left off to close out 2021. On Friday, soybean prices rebounded to see a double-digit gain. Analysts say weather continues to move the markets.
The Horsch Robo is equipped with a Trimble navigation system and fitted with a large seed hopper.
With tax season fast approaching, we pulled this great John Phipps column from the Farm Journal archives.
Available in select counties in 11 states, the Post Application Coverage Endorsement is available for non-irrigated corn.
This data confirms the obvious — there is plenty of income and cash in farm country and is being reflected in the record prices being paid for farmland.
The world is transforming as the COVID-19 pandemic advances technology and cultural shifts in how business is done.
The consistent increase in the number of herbicide-resistant weeds globally has been a major thorn in the side of the agriculture sector for decades.
No matter how many sketches I draw with welder’s chalk on bench tops, no matter how many tack-welded prototypes I build, my “improvements” and “inventions” never seem to work as I envision.
I encourage farm leaders to focus less on needs to be filled season-to-season and more on needs in the 24-to-48-month horizon.
Here’s a look at three products manufacturers plan to market for weed control in the near term.