Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
More Snow Coming??
The big weather item on most people’s minds is still the snow that we had last weekend, and it had been a long time in coming. Let’s get some details from Corey Davis, Assistant State Clim...
Jan 16, 2025
Highlights from USDA January Reports
In January, usually the busiest of months on the USDA report calendar as associated with the first crop production report day of the year. Only the focus is traditionally not on the monthly crop produ...
Jan 16, 2025
Highlights from USDA January Reports
In January, usually the busiest of months on the USDA report calendar as associated with the first crop production report day of the year. Only the focus is traditionally not on the monthly crop produ...
Jan 16, 2025
Rule Change Levels the Playing Field for Poultry Producers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a third installment in regulatory reforms to the Packers and Stockyards Act. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says this third change, in combination with the other...
Jan 15, 2025
Rule Change Levels the Playing Field for Poultry Producers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a third installment in regulatory reforms to the Packers and Stockyards Act. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says this third change, in combination with the other...
Jan 15, 2025
Foreign-Owned Ag Land Increases 1.6 million Acres in One Year
Foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land remains a widely debated topic. Two additional years of data from 2022 and 2023 became available recently, and Danny Munch, an economist with the American F...
Jan 15, 2025
January WASDE is a Market Mover
Many estimates for the January WASDE said that it would likely be a rather uneventful report, but the USDA loves to prove us wrong, and they did that by making cuts to both the corn and soybean number...
Jan 15, 2025
Thinking Long-Term When Making Farm Plans
What's ahead in farming and ranching for 2025? George Baird of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers starts by looking back at what happened in 2024."You know, when we look at '24...
Jan 14, 2025
NC Commissioner Troxler: HPAI Returns to the State
Following positive confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial layer operation last week, NCDA&CS and the State Vet urges poultry farmers to remain vigilant with biose...
Jan 14, 2025
Dairy Industry Facing Uncertainty in Early 2025
Voting has wrapped up on whether to approve the new Federal Milk Marketing Orders. Leonard Polzin is the dairy markets and policy outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin."Ballots have to be...
Jan 14, 2025