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Hearings to modernize Federal Milk Marketing Orders have resumed with a lot of work ahead. Roger Cryan, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about where the hearings are at in the schedule. “What’s happening right now is USDA has resumed the hearing that broke in mid-October that went on for eight weeks […]

The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in a long time. Lance Zimmerman, senior beef and cattle market analyst for Rabobank, says producers are still contracting their herd sizes. “Yeah, we are. 2023 will be the fourth year of cowherd contraction. By the time we get our January 1 cattle inventory report, I’d […]

Here’s to the land of the longleaf pine…so begins the state toast of North Carolina, but much of that longleaf forest in North Carolina has been lost to clearcutting for the tar and turpentine industry. Now, longleaf pine trees are making a comeback in the Southeast, with some help from several dedicated groups. Gary Crawford […]

A new report shows agricultural growth is slowing just as ag leaders say it needs to be ramping up to meet the needs of an exploding world population. In the last decade, the world’s agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 1.94 percent per year. A USDA report says that’s slower than the […]

Crop data, whether it’s weather, crop condition, crop model information, or any number of agricultural statistics, these data resources are useful and, in many cases, can stand alone. That’s according to Lisa Colson, geographer with USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, yet… That information is only as valuable as the degree to which we understand where the […]

An Illinois jury found that several of the country’s major egg producers conspired to limit America’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Several large food manufacturing companies in the lawsuit filed in 2011 said producers used various means to limit the […]

A U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute panel has allowed Canada to continue restricting dairy access that the U.S. negotiated for under the agreement. The action came after an earlier panel ruled in January 2022 that Canada had improperly restricted access to its market for American dairy products. American agriculture leaders and groups reacted negatively to the decision. […]

This is an exciting new program being led by the S.C. Department of Corrections and South Carolina-based AmplifiedAg, Inc. with our support. The legislature has approved construction of a vertical farming facility and training program at Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution, a women’s prison located in Columbia. This will be the first vertical farm in […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The holiday markets were not friendly to the grain and oilseed bulls last week. There were not any new headlines to move the market, just more of the same. The market is still trying to gauge how much […]

The US is getting warmer temperatures. And that’s affecting USDA guidelines. A new Plant Hardiness Zone report is out from the USDA advising farmers on how US temperature zones have changed. Chad Hart, agriculture economist with Iowa State University, says it’s based on average low temperatures in winter. It’s mainly, I would say, targeted more […]