Top Agriculture News

Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root growth. They also improve soil moisture, remove fungal spores and stimulate microbial activity, which benefits plant health. But there’s another weird worm out there […]

Climate-Smart Commodities Program dispersed over $850K in financial incentives to farmers ORANGEBURG, SC – SC State University Public Service & Agriculture (SC State PSA) commemorated its one-year partnership with Climate-Smart Grown in SC, a climate-smart commodities partnership with Clemson University, during a celebratory event for enrolled SC State University farmers on Thursday, July 25, at Camp […]

Many vital provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are due to end at the close of next year.  American Farm Bureau Federation president Zippy Duvall says Congress must not lose sight of protecting those provisions. “Our family farms are already burdened by inflation, increased supply costs, and much, much more. These new […]

The results from the first day of Pro-Farmer’s annual Midwest Crop Tour are lower than last year.  About a thousand scouts headed out into Midwestern corn and soybean fields on Monday to objectively determine the final projections. “What we saw was very good. We had nine stops in Ohio, with an average yield of 193.7. […]

Southwest Georgia farmer Alex Harrell has surpassed his own world record soybean harvest set in 2023. Now, he’s a back-to-back yield champ, growing the highest-yielding soybeans in agriculture history. Harrell cut a bin-busting 218 bushels per acre in the Georgia Soybean Production Contest. He told Farm Journal that he never thought this year’s harvest would […]

RALEIGH – Ford’s Gourmet Foods, the master distributor for North Carolina-produced brands including Wine Nuts, Fire Dancer Jalapeno Peanuts, Earth Family Organics and Naturals and acclaimed Bone Suckin’ Sauces, was recently awarded the 2024 North American Agricultural Marketing Officials (NAAMO) Marketer of the Year Award. Nominated by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ […]

There are still a surprising number of producers, at 21.3 percent, who don’t have access to the internet, according to data released from the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Many of the available options for internet access aren’t adequate for accessing precision agriculture in rural America. Census of Agriculture data says American producers saw moderate improvement […]

RALEIGH – Organic growers in North Carolina can apply for partial reimbursement of the cost of becoming certified or for recertification through a program offered by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.  Growers who are certified or recertified between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2024, can apply for assistance through the program. […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The Pro Farmer Crop Tour got underway yesterday, Monday August 19th. The tour has traveled the same route and used the same yield estimating procedures since 1993 to make year to year comparisons useful. The tour starts […]

I joined farmers Travis and Misty Howard in breaking ground on a new beef processing facility near Roebuck, South Carolina, in Spartanburg County. The Howards’ $2.6 million investment is supported by a $600,000 grant from SCDA. Expanding small processing in South Carolina will create more opportunities for small, in-state facilities to serve the state’s farmers […]