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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman David Rouzer (R-NC), Congressman David Valadao (R-CA), Congressman Jim Costa (D-CA), and Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) announced the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Specialty Crops Caucus.  The caucus aims to highlight the issues facing the specialty crop industry and advocate for policies to allow U.S. specialty growers, processors, and partners to succeed by providing […]

Brazil is a major soybean, corn, and cotton grower but could expand its crop area by more than a third. Successful Farming says Brazil could do that by converting overgrazed or overgrown pastureland says a research agency in Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture. A team of university economists say besides the potential addition of 70 million […]

It’s no secret that farming is a business, and business people often need partners. Jim Johnson is a senior business consultant and agribusiness specialist with the South Carolina Small Business Development Center at USC. He provides farmers with help, especially when it comes to business planning. “One of the areas of need most of these […]

Getting farmers to produce climate smart commodities means economic incentives are needed. The USDA has created the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, investing over three billion dollars to do so. But they aren’t asking for too much. USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Robert Bonnie thinks farmers have been doing the practices for a […]

The National Agricultural Statistics Service recently announced it will no long issue the July Cattle Report. The agency is also discontinuing the county estimates for crops and livestock and the Cotton Objective Yield Survey starting in the 2024 production year. Tanner Beymer, senior director of government affairs with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, talks about […]

With the passage of sports betting as legal in the state of North Carolina, that has brought about some interesting prospects. I’m talking with Corey Davis, the Assistant State Climatologist from North Carolina on this, and I’m wagering that we can come up with some interesting bets for this spring’s weather particularly for the month […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. USDA released the April WASDE report yesterday, Thursday April 11th at noon. The April report is not usually a big market mover and this was no exception. USDA does not release new crop balance sheets in April or […]

The U.S. Agriculture Department will now consider updates to the Federal Milk Marketing Order. The deadline for modernization briefs was April 1st. Stephen Cain an economist with the National Milk Producers Federation says there is a huge list of requested changes and the post-hearing gave all interested parties a chance to speak. “To effectively summarize […]

Housing advocates fear rural low-income folks who live in aging USDA housing could be forced out; small towns are eligible for grants to enhance civic participation; and North Carolina’s small and Black-owned farms are helped by new wind and solar revenues.

The April World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report predicts lower corn and higher soybean ending stocks. The 2023-2024 U.S. corn outlook is for greater corn used for ethanol, feed, and residual use. With no supply changes and use rising, ending stocks dropped 50 million bushels to 2.1 million. The season-average farm price is lowered […]