Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
Making the Most of Dairy Heifer Inventories
The stakes are high when it comes to making dairy cattle breeding decisions. From rising input costs to a lucrative market for beef-on-dairy calves, each female requires careful consideration about he...
Nov 26, 2023
Farmers and Ranchers to Pay More for H-2A Labor in 2024
The USDA says farmers who hire H-2A laborers next year will be paying higher wages, and in some cases, the increase is large. Veronica Nigh, senior economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, ...
Nov 26, 2023
Chief Ag Negotiator Points to Ag Trade Successes
Exports are always an important topic for U.S. agriculture. Doug McKalip is the chief agricultural trade negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative's Office. He says the last few years have been ver...
Nov 26, 2023
Canada’s Newest Apple Variety
One of Canada's largest apple producers, Algoma Orchards, based near New Castle, just east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, has launched a new premium consumer apple. The new variety was...
Nov 26, 2023
Farmland Sales Slowed but Demand Stayed Strong in ’23
Farmland prices continued rising throughout 2023. Randy Dickhut, farmland sales specialist with Agricultural Economic Insights, says rising prices were a little surprising given the economic condition...
Nov 23, 2023
USDA Secretary Shares Vision of Value-Added Agriculture
Listen, it just seems like I’ve been with you for the 80 years of this association. But it is good to be back and I think I’ve got quite a bit to talk about today.Secretary of Agriculture ...
Nov 23, 2023
Rouzer: We Have an Opportunity for H2A Reform
Across farm country producers have been calling for changes to the H2A program to allow for less bureaucracy and more efficiency. The house agricultural labor working group has now released an interim...
Nov 22, 2023
Drought Will Be Hard to Get Rid of in 2024
Drought was a big part of the agriculture story in 2023. Drew Lerner, Senior Agricultural Meteorologist with World Weather Inc., says the 2023 story began three years ago."I think the routes in 2023 g...
Nov 21, 2023
USDA’s Alexis Taylor Touts Trade Successes
Trade is always an important topic for agriculture. Alexis Taylor, USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, says commodity trade doesn't just support farmers."In 2021, US agricu...
Nov 21, 2023
Farmers Say Input Prices are Chief Economic Concern
The Purdue University Ag Economy Barometer was started in 2015. It's a monthly survey of 400 different farmers every month. Dr. James Mintert of Purdue says the most recent survey showed a slight impr...
Nov 21, 2023