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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.
Brazing is a skill that approaches art. Do it right and it’s a thing of beauty. Do it wrong and you’re reaching for a can of spray paint to hide blobby abominations.
Don’t let the excitement of getting in the field this spring provoke planting mistakes.
There are farmers, there are professional mechanics, and then there are farmer-mechanics. You qualify as a farmer-mechanic if:
The hunger for dairy products internationally is on pace to set new records in 2021, much of that due to China. Supply chain hurdles haven’t curbed the record demand so far, and experts say that’s been no easy feat.
Understand and weigh your operation’s options.
Build your farm’s future based on its past.
Commodity markets were on a rollercoaster ride this week, with a sharp drop to end November and then a recovery to end the first few days of December. Analysts say that volatility might just be getting started.
Attorneys in the massive chicken antitrust price-fixing class action lawsuits have been granted more than $100 million in legal fees by a U.S. District Judge in the Northern District of Illinois.
Rising costs could lower fertilizer rates in 2022.
The company says its program will help farmers reduce their CO2 emissions and will be launched in phases starting next year.
Short morning meetings set the framework for how your team maximizes its time.
With all the crippling kinks and missing links in the supply chain, it looks like Christmas could be positively Dickensian.
What really makes yield per acre? It’s not plant population—that’s merely one component.
Midwinter is a great time to rejuvenate the Great Chain Lubrication Debate.
In 2007, Casey Kimbrell pulled the handbrake on life, questioned the fundamentals of agriculture, and determined to topple the assumed pillar of farm function—debt.
This population of waterhemp is currently resistant to six herbicide groups and is now “activating detoxification genes before the herbicides can do harm,” says one researcher.
The White House says 95.6% of USDA employees have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or filed for an exemption, but the number who’ve received the vaccine is the lowest among reported federal agencies.
Farm Journal Foundation’s Farmer Ambassador Program enables farmers to take agriculture’s story to Washington D.C.
As an agriculture cooperative that provides a host of warehousing and logistics services in a highly time-sensitive industry.
President Biden planned to meet with chief executives of major retailers and companies to discuss how to move goods to shelves as the U.S. holiday shopping season begins in the shadow of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
Open slots and false bottoms are being created as farmers build strips for their spring planting pass.
AgriTalk Host Chip Flory and Pro Farmer policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer discuss plans Congress will probably have these last weeks of 2021, including the debt ceiling and the Build Back Better plan in the Senate.
As families gather to give thanks this year, Farm Journal shares stories of grit and gratitude. From surviving a raging wildfire to a mail carrier who saved a rancher’s life, each show resilience of rural America.
Hurricane Ida ravaged Louisiana agriculture this fall. The hurricane brought as much as two feet of rain in some areas, as producers grappled with losses and aftermath as those in surrounding states stepped into help.
John Phipps says after a year many paused large family gatherings, he’s acquired new habits to improve my chances of happiness. And this Thanksgiving, it may just be the unexpected moments for which you give thanks.
After John Moody was ran over by his tractor in March, USPS mail carrier Allen Dix made a life-saving delivery that went above and beyond his job. Dix received the USPS Hero Award for his remarkable rural route rescue.
After a battle with COVID-19, first generation farmer Chance McMillan didn’t just lose his dad, but a life-long coach. That’s as the two had plans to finally farm full-time as father and son.
On Tuesday, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack rang in on AgriTalk to share agriculture’s angle in the BBB plan with host Chip Flory.
Writing the cover story with ambassador Kip Tom was a good reminder to me of how many people in the world are struggling to eat — or even survive — each day.
Inflation is effecting consumers across the country. And as Americans prepare to gather for Thanksgiving this year, it will cost most Americans more than it did last year, but not the highest price ever.