Category Archives: Top Agriculture News
January is a Challenging Month to Market Cattle
The cattle market had a great 2024, but Scott Varilek of KKV Trading in Iowa says January typically isn't the best month to market cattle."That’s always my least favorite month to sell cattle. I...
Jan 09, 2025
Ag Industry Concerned with RFK, Jr. as Secretary of HHS
President-elect Trump's cabinet will soon be taking shape, with the Ag industry watching closely.Pam Lewison, Ag Director at the Washington Policy Center, says the pending confirmation of Robert F. Ke...
Jan 08, 2025
Considerations for Cotton Growers in 2025
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...
Jan 08, 2025
Considerations for Cotton Growers in 2025
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...
Jan 08, 2025
Winter Commodity Marketing Signals Indicate More Corn Ahead
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...
Jan 07, 2025
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday January 7
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...
Jan 07, 2025
NC Commissioner Troxler: Streamflow Rehabilitation Assistance Program
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...
Jan 06, 2025
AFBF: H-2A Labor Remains Vital for Agriculture
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...
Jan 06, 2025
First US bird flu death is announced in Louisiana
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...
Jan 06, 2025
Will Trump Administration Change Keep H5N1 Monitoring in Place?
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 ...
Jan 05, 2025