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Former South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch has stepped into the CEO job for the United Soybean Board. Lynch says USB handles the national soybean checkoff dollars. Every state that raises soybeans, essentially producers pay a checkoff and half of it stays local and half of it funds the national effort, and that in […]

American Farm Bureau’s annual convention concluded Tuesday with a session on policy priorities for 2024. AFBF President Zippy Duvall says the Farm Bill is the top issue. “We stressed the importance of getting a new farm bill done and how urgent it is to get it done now. Labor was another hot topic, especially around […]

The strength of the U.S. dollar compared to currency in other countries is a big factor in successfully exporting American ag commodities. The Federal Reserve says it won’t raise interest rates for now, and Mike Zuzolo of Global Commodity Analytics says that would typically be good news for U.S. exports. “Well, it should have a […]

We are at the halfway point of climatological winter, and I think that might be a good time to take a look back on what has looked like a fairly warm and wet season, but I’m gonna get the expert’s opinion right now and to turn to Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis from the State […]

Rural Texas teachers unravel a secret to improving student reading scores; a New York nonprofit champions manufactured housing to help solve the state’s housing crisis; and Reba McEntire lends her fame to an Oklahoma town’s revitalization.

Clemson University animal health officials are urging owners of backyard poultry flocks and pet waterfowl to keep their birds away from wild waterfowl and the waters they inhabit. The warning comes after backyard flocks in Horry and Orangeburg counties contracted the Eurasian strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), presumably from wild birds and waterways frequented […]

A unique period in USDA’s crop progress reporting takes place in the winter months, December through March. “State Stories” focused on specific winter crops and commodities. Until about 10 years ago, we did have weekly reports from each of the individual states. But at that time, USDA NASS opted to shut down the weekly state […]

A Colorado robotics firm and a veteran-led company from North Carolina are among the winners of this year’s 2024 Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge. Barn Owl Precision Agriculture received a total of $50,000 to grow the business by winning the overall competition. The American Farm Bureau Federation, in partnership with Farm Credit, announced the winner […]

They could not be any happier about once again exporting apples to India, but apple growers know there’s still plenty of work left to build back what used to be our number two market. Washington Apple Commission president Todd Fryhover says September’s lifting of Section 232 tariffs on U.S. apple imports to India was a […]

What might impact ag producers add their bottom lines in 2024? It’s part of the big question of how do I invest in a way that returns profitability at the end of the day. The challenge of the higher cost of establishing yourself as a farmer and maintaining that opportunity. We haven’t done much with […]