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Talking with NC Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis. How’s this winter stacking up as far as winters go, Corey? Mike, February is our shortest month, but we don’t want to shortchange it. Let’s show it some love, especially here on Valentine’s week. So through the midpoint of February, the big story is just how warm […]

Agriculture built towns on America’s high plains, but now might run them dry; a Texas drone experiment aims to improve healthcare in rural areas; and U.S. growers of wool and cotton get federal money to improve climate-smart land practices.

The January World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates Report details South American soybean production and its impact on the market. Mac Marshall, vice president of market intelligence with USB, notes that China will be important to watch keeping the transport of soybeans and price in mind. “We had an uptick in soybean yield by about […]

The USDA released the 2022 Census of Agriculture this week. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says some of the results were concerning, especially the number of farms and total amount of farmland across America. “In 2017, when we did the survey, there were 2,042,220 farms. Today the survey reports we have 1,900,487 farms. So doing a […]

The last 12 months have been challenging for cultivated meat and seafood companies trying to raise capital. AGFunderNews.com says Finless Foods is making cutbacks to conserve cash, New Age Eats is running out of funds, and GOOD Meat is being sued by its bioreactor supplier over allegedly unpaid bills. As AgFunder runs the numbers, preliminary […]

With the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing now complete, USDA is now considering the more than 12,000 pages of testimony as it formulates a plan for FMMO modernization. The National Milk Producers Federation says the key to a successful modernization is a comprehensive approach that addresses the complexity of federal orders in a way that […]

A dairy checkoff partnership is putting hot chocolate milk into the hands of students during a pilot with a leading school foodservice company. National Dairy Council and Chartwells K12, which serves more than two million meals daily at 700 U.S. school districts, have launched the Hot Chocolate Milk program in 58 schools. Lisa Hatch, vice […]

Proposed changes to the H-2A Visa program, from the Departments of Labor and Homeland Security, could make life much more challenging for growers across the country. Kate Tynan, Senior Vice President at the Northwest Horticultural Council, says workers deserve protection, but these proposals would really cost growers. “I’ve been working on these issues for going […]

USDA says in the last decade, world agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 1.94 percent per year, far slower than the 2.74 percent growth rate over the prior decade. That’s also below the average annual rate of 2.3 percent over the past six decades from 1961-2021. The slowdown was primarily tied to […]

Cattle industry representatives from Canada and Mexico attended the U.S. National Cattlemen’s annual conference recently in Orlando, Florida. Meetings involved the three partner-countries in the USMCA trade pact to discuss a slate of issues. Nathan Phinney, president of the Canadian Cattle Association and a rancher in Sackville, New Brunswick, says the proposed “Product of USA” […]