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After falling for two straight weeks, the nation’s average price of gasoline increased, rising 1.6 cents from a week ago to $3.79 per gallon. The national average is down 3.0 cents from a month ago but 11.4 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average diesel price fell 0.9 cents last week […]

Total cash labor expenses for the U.S. agriculture sector are forecast to be $43.35 billion for 2023, based on new data from USDA’s Economic Research Service. This would be an increase of $0.78 billion, or 1.8 percent, over the 2022 level of $42.57 billion in inflation-adjusted 2023 dollars. The projected 2023 level would remain below […]

New funding announced on Monday from the Department of Agriculture will help dairy producers affected by natural disasters. The Milk Loss Program administered by the Farm Service Agency will compensate eligible dairy farms and processors for milk dumped due to qualifying disaster events from 2020 to 2022. Eligible disasters include droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, […]

FLETCHER – Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler inducted two couples into the N.C. Mountain State Fair Livestock Hall of Fame during the fair’s opening weekend. Troxler recognized Buddy and Janice Cochran of Waynesville and Tim and Sonia Worley of Leicester for their longtime support to the fair and the livestock industry in Western North Carolina. “These […]

The EPA released a draft strategy on herbicide use designed to better protect endangered species. John Walt Boatright, director of government affairs with the American Farm Bureau, talks about the EPA strategy. “Well, the EPA’s herbicide strategy is an attempt to try to bring into compliance their pesticide registration regulations with Endangered Species Act obligations. […]

The rise in urban farming continues to create opportunity for many across the nation and specifically in our state, and we all get to reap the harvest. I’m talking to Carolyn Rose-Seed. She is the president of the South Durham Farmers Market and owner of Mama Springs Farm in Durham. Can you tell us about […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets have been trading in narrow ranges on very low volume waiting for USDA’s latest supply and demand update coming out today, Tuesday Sept 12th at noon. We have been watching all the private estimates released over […]

Shanteya Hudson Rural areas in North Carolina have long been grappling with limited access to services, from health care to internet access, and a unique nonprofit group is taking on these challenges and others, with young people at the helm. Called “A Better Chance, A Better Community,” the organization in Halifax County is nicknamed “ABC-2.” […]

After a record high income year in 2022, farmers this year will see profits declining. USDA is out with its new income forecasts. And here’s an example. Net cash farm income is forecast to fall to about 149 billion. That’s about a 27% drop from 2022. USDA economist Carrie Litkowski says that declines due to […]

Wheat harvest is going on around the world. Kim Anderson, a grain market economist with Oklahoma State University, talks about harvest progress. “We’ve got about a 29.2-billion-bushel world crop being harvested and 1.73 billion here in the United States. We’ve harvested about 80 percent of that world wheat crop and the majority of the U.S. […]