If you are holding onto grain to sell before harvest, you may have checked cash bids and got a big surprise. The basis level dropped like a stone. Why is that happening? Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net says when it comes to the basis, we have seen farmers that have held on to old crop grains, […]

Agricultural literacy. No matter how that term is defined, some, like North Carolina A&T State University sustainable agriculture professor Kathleen Liang, note declining rates of ag literacy, especially on the secondary school level in the context of where food comes from and how food is produced. So from that perspective… …focusing on helping young people […]

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen federal agencies and departments have been mobilized across the Biden-Harris Administration to assist state, county, nonprofit and private sector partners to help people in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina jumpstart their recovery after Hurricane Idalia. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell visited Florida on Thursday to assess the damage in the […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The corn and soybean markets drifted lower as we got to first notice day on the September contracts yesterday, Thursday Aug 31st. It has felt like fund positioning ahead of first notice day rather than a new trend […]

The Carolinas largely dodged a bullet when the remnants of Hurricane Idalia sped through the southeast Wednesday and Thursday. Mike Davis talks with NC Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis about the impact. Well, Mike, you know, when we talked last week, it wasn’t even a named storm. It actually wasn’t even a tropical depression yet. […]

The remnants of Hurricane Idalia came and went in a hurry through South then North Carolina Wednesday into Thursday morning, and for the most part may have done more good than harm. Bayer technical agronomist Zach Webb has been surveying and says Marion County, South Carolina may have taken the brunt of it. Marion County […]

Millions of Americans are navigating a post-pandemic Medicaid purge, rural “news deserts” turn to nonprofits for local coverage in response to hedge-fund buyouts, and the Cornhusker State is preserving the stories of Nebraskans who trekked to one-room school houses in days gone by.