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Highly Pathogenetic Avian Influenza has been on the minds of backyard poultry owners, as well as large-scale operations, since late 2022. Dr. Amber Itle [Idel], Washington state Veterinarian, says it’s very normal for these influenza viruses to circulate.  But what she says is not normal is for this virus to persist for two years, and […]

Moms for America, a Missouri-based national conservative advocacy group that focuses on pro-family issues, went to Capitol Hill last week to discuss its opposition to the EATS Act. They say House Bill 4417 and Senate Bill 209 would “hand American pork and other production over to the Chinese multi-national conglomerates like Smithfield and the global […]

Parts of southeastern North Carolina have been deluged by another historic flood. Highways in Brunswick County remained underwater Tuesday, a day after about 18 inches of rain fell at nearby Carolina Beach in 12 hours. Emergency workers brought food and water to people as they waited for the flooding to recede. But the same area has seen four other floods of a lifetime in the past 25 years from Hurricane Floyd in 1999, unnamed storms in 2010 and 2015, and the benchmark flood with 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Florence in 2018. Meteorologists says warmer temperatures from climate change allows the air to hold more moisture and heavier rains to fall.

At the South Carolina Advocates for Agriculture Recognition Reception this evening (Wednesday, September 11), we recognized several people, two in particular that you recognized, Commissioner. Tell us about them. “Well, every year we honor a public service individual and then a private industry, and we did the same this year in the public service was […]

: Efforts to protect farm and forestland statewide continues with the awarding of $18.2 million in farmland preservation grants.

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn shrugged off USDA’s yield increase on Friday closing strong to give us the third positive weekly close for the first time since April. Corn was able to shake off the higher yield since carryout did not […]

When the global Covid-19 pandemic was at its high alert point in 2020 and 2021, one non-health related concern arose when supply chains were disrupted. You might remember some food items and ingredients meant for grocery stores, retailers and restaurants were not available as a result. It was a time when industries and businesses became […]

We’ve just passed the five year anniversary for a hurricane that you may not remember as being terribly impactful in the Carolinas, but it was significant in many ways. I’m Mike Davis, and I’m talking with Corey Davis, the Assistant State Climatologist from the State Climate Office of North Carolina, and that was Hurricane Dorian […]

A fungus is threatening strawberries along the east coast, and it’s keeping some farmers from even planting this fall. Neopestalotiopsis, which first appeared several years ago in Florida, can cause light to dark brown spots on plant leaves and rotting of the fruit. Brent Jones is a strawberry farmer in Forsyth County, North Carolina. “We […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. September USDA supply and demand report was pretty much a yawner. The September report historically is not a big market mover because we have not seen enough harvest data yet to be incorporated into the data. The […]