Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

Cotton growers are studying their options now as they anticipate the 2025 planting season. James Bookhart is a technical agronomist with Deltapine in North and South Carolina and suggests with the cur...

Cotton growers are studying their options now as they anticipate the 2025 planting season. James Bookhart is a technical agronomist with Deltapine in North and South Carolina and suggests with the cur...

As the calendar turned to 2025, plans were well underway for the new growing season. Ben Brown is an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri, and he's predicting farmers will likely add t...

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540.Last week would have been a lot more constructive in the grain and oilseed m...

Dozens of Streamflow Rehabilitation Assistance Program (StRAP) projects are set to get underway in 2025 in the second round of StRAP funding. Projects will take place in 72 counties and 15 of the stat...

Demand continues growing for farm labor through the H-2A program. John Walt Boatright, director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says that even though the increase in pos...

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported - a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms. State health offici...

The USDA's H5N1 Monitoring Program set the lofty goal of eradicating the virus from U.S. dairy herds. Lucas Sjostrom of the government affairs team at Edge Dairy Cooperative says the average producer ...

Romance scams are well known among many people under 50, but did you know they can hit seniors, even in rural areas? Michelle Reinen is the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture's Administrator of the D...

What will the commodity markets look like early in the new year? Ben Brown, a University of Missouri Extension Ag Economist, says he's not especially bullish on soybeans."I think in the short run, and...