Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

Choosing the Right Vaccine for Your Cattle Herd
When it comes to beef cattle vaccination programs, there is no cookie-cutter approach. Every operation has unique requirements based on disease pressure and individual herd goals. With many vaccine ch...
Curtis Media Jan 23, 2024

Learning from ’23 for a Better ’24
Agronomists spend a lot of time during the growing season in plots and scouting crops. Nebraska-based LG Seeds Agronomist Mark Grundmayer says he spends the winter reflecting on what he learned to hel...
Curtis Media Jan 23, 2024

SC Commissioner Weathers: 2024 Chef Ambassadors
South Carolina has three new Chef Ambassadors. Here's Commissioner Hugh Weathers to tell us about it.We're celebrating the 10th year of the program.We created in 2014 to highlight South Carolina as a ...
Curtis Media Jan 22, 2024

National Potato Council to Host D.C. Fly-in
Standing up for potatoes on Capitol Hill-that's what will be going on late next month when the National Potato Council invites industry members to the Nation's Capital for the Washington Summit.NPC CE...
Curtis Media Jan 21, 2024

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 ...
Curtis Media 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...
Curtis Media 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...
Curtis Media 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...
Curtis Media 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...
Curtis Media 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...
Curtis Media Jan 18, 2024
