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Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete and Meghan Pedersen discuss farm bill safety net options.
It is generally viewed as “farmer-friendly,” but certain components are cause for concerns for some.
A total of ten cases of bird flu have been confirmed in turkey flocks in Indiana. On Saturday, nine more commercial turkey farms in Dubois County tested positive for bird flu besides the initial case confirmed Friday, Jan. 15. All infected flocks are located in Dubois County. State health officials say further testing is underway to determine the virus type -- the initial case was determined to be H7N8 HPAI.
USDA-ARS scientists are developing novel vaccines to help protect livestock against cattle ticks that hitchhike on wildlife, such as the white-tail deer, that cross the Rio Grande River into Texas.
U.S. on-farm storage capacity rose to 13.235 billion bushels as of Dec. 1, 2015, up less than 1% from year-ago, while off-farm storage capacity rose 3% to 10.997 billion bushels as of Dec. 1, 2015, according to USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service (NASS).
Interest rate for nine-month loans to be highest since 2009
A recent survey commissioned by WAFWA shows lesser prairie-chicken numbers climbed 25 percent between 2014 and 2015.
Nothing is constant but change, and USDA’s latest acreage reports served as a not-so-subtle reminder of that. Here are the states that saw the biggest “crop swaps” this year.
The May USDA reports have now come and gone. Dan Hueber thinks there is only one message to carry away, which, realistically, should not have been shocking.
The federal government has fined the Lynchburg Livestock Market $10,000 for improperly allowing its bank to use money from a custodial account.