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The USDA released its recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders in early July. Stephen Cain, senior director of economic research and analysis for the National Milk Producers Federation, talks about his initial reaction to the proposal. “Overall, we’re very pleased with the recommendations that USDA has come up with. We put a lot […]

Dr. Ron Heiniger is a professor at NC State and corn specialist with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. “We’re seeing this corn crop try to recover a little bit, now that we’ve got a little bit of rain in the last week across the coastal plain and and Tidewater area, some corn that certainly […]

USDA’s initial recommendations for modernizing the Federal Milk Marketing Orders came out on July 1. Erica Maedke, vice president of insights at Ever.Ag, talks about some of the potential challenges in those recommendations. “I do think one of the challenges that USDA had to address was make-allowances. We haven’t updated it in 24 years. Clearly, […]

The Real Pork Trust Consortium is a team of academia striving to listen to and answer consumer questions about pork and pork production. Nick Gabler is an animal science professor at Iowa State University. He talks about the Real Pork Consortium and what it addresses. “There are spectrums of concern with regard to how pork is […]

South Carolina Ag Commissioner Hugh Weathers now finds himself with added duties, and he joins me now to talk about that, and I understand that as a result of the working ag lands bill that was signed by Governor McMaster back in March, you now sit on the board of the South Carolina conservation bank. […]

You would expect the competition to be extra strong for the N.C. State Fair, after all it represents the best of the best of North Carolina, so people start planning early on what they intend to enter at the Fair. Competition entries are being accepted now through Sept. 15 for those planning to compete in […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Despite all the turmoil on the political front over the weekend, Monday’s trade felt like it was more about weather than politics. Honestly I think the market is just as confused about what will happen in the […]

Farmers are on track nationally to harvest some of their biggest corn and soybean crops ever, and the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book says the ongoing decline in commodity prices is putting farm income in questionable territory. “Regional Fed banks in Chicago and Minneapolis say the farm income outlook had weakened in recent months,” according to […]

Fertilizer prices remain higher despite agriculture being past the high-demand spring season. Josh Linville of StoneX told AgWeb.com that multiple global factors are the reason prices have stayed high. Lower European production is the first reason as skyrocketing natural gas prices have cut EU production by 25 percent. Brazil is another reason as high costs […]

It would seem pretty likely by now that soybean farmers in the United States will have heard or maybe even been asked to deliver their crop for a small premium in trade for providing the location of the farm and proof it has not been deforested since the beginning of the decade. This has to […]