Farm Business - General
The latest Rural Mainstreet Index soared to a reading of 78.8, up from the 69 posted in April. The survey also found 60.6% of bank CEOs reported a local economy that expanded from April to May.
Farming success is chained to the highest premium paid across a long series of benchmarks, and Matt Brechwald’s farm tale, split between dirt and the digital world, firmly fits the mold.
The National FFA Organization announces it has named Scott Stump as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective Monday, June 21. Stump also takes the leadership role as CEO of the National FFA Foundation.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 280 million pounds of glyphosate are applied to an average of 298 million acres of corn, soybeans and cotton annually.
John Phipps says not including younger generations in a moment to reflect on those who have who gone before and especially who risked much on our behalf, the custom of formal remembrance will slip away.
Would you buy one? Check out what farmers had to say after Ford’s F-150 Lightning announcement.
The world’s largest meat producer was the latest victim of a cyberattack. And as the food chain relies more on automation and less on manual labor, cyberattacks may be a rising risk for the food chain.
Recently the world’s biggest jewelry retailer announced it would switch from mined diamonds to lab-produced. There are similarities in genetically modified diamonds and genetically modified foods. John Phipps explains.
Many economic factors are at play in the ag industry, everything from stimulus money to higher commodity prices to historically low interest rates. How will these issues impact your farm?
One week after a cyberattack shut down meat packing plants in three countries, U.S. officials seized the cryptocurrency payment that was made during the Colonial Pipeline hack less than a month earlier.