Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
Farmers Suing Biden Administration over Reverse Discrimination
On behalf of several Texas farmers, the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Mountain States Legal Foundation filed a preliminary injunction regarding disaster payments asking a federal court to stop...
Apr 18, 2024
Global Wheat Stocks Forecast at Eight-Year Low
The USDA's April Wheat Outlook shows global wheat ending stocks for 2023-2024 are projected down this month by 0.6 million metric tons to 258.3 million metric tons. The agency says that's the lowest l...
Apr 18, 2024
Global Wheat Stocks Forecast at Eight-Year Low
The USDA's April Wheat Outlook shows global wheat ending stocks for 2023-2024 are projected down this month by 0.6 million metric tons to 258.3 million metric tons. The agency says that's the lowest l...
Apr 18, 2024
Guarded Optimism Amid Labor Shortage, Prop 12 Challenges in U.S. Pork Industry
2023 was a rough year for U.S. pork producers. During a recent press conference, National Pork Producers Council CEO Bryan Humphreys had more optimism for the rest of 2024."I think there’s some ...
Apr 17, 2024
Industry Leaders Assuring Public Pasteurized Milk Supply is Safe
Highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed in a dairy herd in North Carolina last week. This is today’s topic, I'm Mike Davis. It’s also been found in six other states, but officials ...
Apr 17, 2024
‘See For Yourself’ Mission Provides Firsthand Look at U.S. Soy Exports
The United Soybean Board recently traveled on a "See for Yourself" mission to Colombia and Panama. The mission allowed farmers to see how soy checkoff investments impact other parts of the world and p...
Apr 17, 2024
Managing Crop Costs Instead of Cutting Inputs
After years of crop costs ratcheting up along with fertilizer prices, the cost of corn and soybeans have dropped compared to last year and farmers are looking at ways to cut back to turn a profit.That...
Apr 16, 2024
NC Commissioner Troxler: HPAI in Dairy Herd UPDATE
The recent detection of high path avian influenza in a dairy herd in North Carolina serves as a reminder that farms, especially poultry farms, must remain vigilant in their biosecurity efforts. Last w...
Apr 15, 2024
Rouzer, Valadao, Costa, Slotkin Launch Bipartisan Specialty Crops Caucus
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 laun...
Apr 15, 2024
Report: Brazil Could Expand Cropland by 35 Percent
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 s...
Apr 15, 2024