Search - AgWeb

Lawmakers may have left town, but centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) left no doubt that he cannot support President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social and climate spending plan, imperiling the president’s agenda.

Welcome to a nightmare—the Yazoo Backwater Project—a bureaucratic taffy pull of dysfunctional government, politics, science, farming, and the backdoor dealings of a federal agency.

COVID-19-related legislation continues to run the gavel, while rural America urges Congress to deliver on its economic relief promises. Here are three issues to watch.

The House Ag Committee is seeking feedback on the 2018 Farm Bill in preparation for the 2023 Farm Bill draft.

Lawmakers had all year to work out a budget/funding level for fiscal year (FY) 2023, which starts Oct. 1. Of course, they didn’t make it and now, again, there’s a need for a stopgap spending bill.

The rapidly worsening water supply crisis has prompted governments to try remedies with uncertain success rates through cloud seeding. Does it actually work and what’s China’s track record? John Phipps weighs in.

Does the sequence in which a jam nut and a standard nut are installed make a difference? Definitely.

Grain prices ended mixed with row crops shaking off the early risk off in the outside markets. Livestock leaning higher with cash supportive. Michelle Rook talks with Pat Von Tersch of Professional Ag Marketing.

Soybean prices rebound on China export biz. Wheat lower on higher dollar and technicals, pulling down corn. Cattle prices mostly higher on higher cash ideas. Michelle Rook talks with Ted Seifried of Zaner Ag Hedge.

Choosing hybrids for their ability to overcome the stresses in individual fields is several steps removed from simply looking at neighborhood plots and talking to neighbors, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.