Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
SC Commissioner Weathers: 2025 Watermelon Season!
We're in the heart of watermelon season in South Carolina.It's a very strong watermelon season in South Carolina due to fairly consistent rainfall and temperatures.The melons have great flavor this ye...
Jul 15, 2025
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday July 15
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.This started off much better than last week for corn. After making new lows ...
Jul 14, 2025
Best Practices for Early Season Cotton Management
Cotton is starting to look like cotton now, according to Bayer technical agronomist Zach Webb, who says growers need to be looking out for plant bugs."For early season scouting, prior to bloom, weR...
Jul 14, 2025
NC Commissioner Troxler: Peanut Grading Job Fairs
The department's Cooperative Grading Service is looking to hire peanut graders for the upcoming peanut season. Twelve peanut grading job fairs will be held in Eastern NC starting mid-July. These seaso...
Jul 08, 2025
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday July 8
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.Markets opened Sunday night with a bang after the Independence Day holiday, ...
Jul 07, 2025
SC Commissioner Weathers: New Ag Expo Coming to Clemson Next Week
The inaugural Tri-State Ag Expo is happening in Clemson SC on July 16 and 17 and Commissioner Weathers is here to tell us about it.My good friend and Upstate producer RD Morrison had the idea to bring...
Jul 07, 2025
TS Chantal Brings Field Flooding to Central NC
North Carolina farmers and others are without power and many have been displaced from their homes after getting pounded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal Sunday and Monday. North Carolina Comm...
Jul 07, 2025
USDA Releases Marketing Assistance Funds for Specialty Crop Growers
America's specialty crop growers often face challenges that are unique to their segment of agriculture. John Walt Boatright, director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, say...
Jul 06, 2025
Newhouse: Now is the Right Time to Fix the H2A Program for Good
One day it's off, and then the next it's back on. That's been President Trump's stand on immigration enforcement on farms of late, confusing many farmworkers and their employers.But Washington Represe...
Jul 06, 2025
‘Meat is Having a Moment’
“Meat is having a moment.” Those are words from Dr. Glynn Tonsor at Kansas State University. Tonsor, a livestock market economist with Kansas State Extension, says it’s good news for...
Jul 06, 2025