Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
Farm Lending Activity Remains Muted
New non-real estate farm lending activity at commercial banks continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2023. The volume of new non-real estate farm loans in the final months of 2023 was about 15 ...
Jan 19, 2024
Illinois Tops U.S. Soybean Production in 2023
The National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates Illinois soybean farmers raised a U.S.-leading 648.9 million bushels on 10.3 million acres. Compared to the previous year, total acreage and yiel...
Jan 19, 2024
Carolinas Cold but Nearly Drought Free
I’m talking with Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. And you know, it was just a few months ago, Corey, that you and I were talking about h...
Jan 18, 2024
Zuzolo: Surprises in Global Corn Production and Stocks
The January WASDE report showed a record level of U.S. corn production in 2023. Mike Zuzolo, president of Global Commodity Analytics, says he expected the corn number to be higher than initially predi...
Jan 18, 2024
The Yonder Report
An interesting twist could see a solar energy project replace a former Kentucky strip mine; a rural Colorado community won a battle to keep its abortion center; and in that state’s skiing region...
Jan 18, 2024
U.S. Farm Exports Face Headwinds
As most every farmer knows, trade remains vital to US agriculture. Undersecretary of Agriculture Robert Bonnie, telling an audience the other day that his use of that word "vital" is probably an under...
Jan 18, 2024
Southern Farm Show Returning Jan. 31 – Feb. 2
It’s the largest farm show in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, and it returns to the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh Wednesday, January 31 through Friday, February 2, David Zimmerman...
Jan 18, 2024
January WASDE Pressures Commodity Prices Lower
The January WASDE report showed a surprising jump in corn and soybean production. Betty Resnick, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about what the report revealed about suppl...
Jan 17, 2024
Boerema Repeats as NC Top Corn Yield Grower
As the results are in from the National Corn Growers Association 2023 Corn Yield Contest, and once again Isaac Boerema of Pantego, NC is the North Carolina winner in the no-till no-irrigation category...
Jan 17, 2024
Boerema Repeats as NC Top Corn Yield Grower
As the results are in from the National Corn Growers Association 2023 Corn Yield Contest, and once again Isaac Boerema of Pantego, NC is the North Carolina winner in the no-till no-irrigation category...
Jan 17, 2024