Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

So, this past weekend, we had something that we had not seen around here in the Carolinas for many months: a round of good, old-fashioned rain. But did it improve any of the drought maps here in the C...

Fertilizer industry experts have been watching the prices for all kinds of nitrogen sources during the winter months. The question is what they're seeing as we draw closer to the start of spring ferti...

The southern U.S. border has been closed to livestock imports from Mexico for more than a year, thanks to the New World Screwworm marching northward through Mexico. With very tight cattle supplies in ...

Around the nation, FFA members are celebrating National FFA Week, February 21-28. Layten Sobieski, the state sentinel on the Wisconsin State FFA Officer Team, talked about his first FFA experience. "M...

The Trump Administration's Adverse Effect Wage Rate interim ruling for H2-A workers is being challenged in court claiming the new calculations will harm foreign guest workers. A coalition of 25 ag gro...

NASCAR is the first major U.S. motorsports series to utilize zero-carbon bioethanol, thanks to a new partnership with POET, the nation's largest biofuel producer. POET is now the Official Biofuel Part...

Agreement on legislation to allow year-round E15 sales continued to elude farm and oil interests despite a Sunday deadline. A draft plan by the House GOP's Rural Domestic Energy Council failed to win ...

Despite high beef prices, the U.S. cattle herd remains at record low numbers. Nate Kauffman, the senior vice president and Omaha branch executive for the Kansas City Fed, said the numbers show there s...

North Carolina is facing record growth, but state agriculture officials warn that expansion is coming at a cost: the steady loss of farmland and forestland. North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Ste...

It's no secret that the cost of agricultural labor is a major expense for farmers, but it has exploded in recent years to a level that many cannot afford. Kate Tynan, Vice President of the Northwest H...