Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

FAPRI’s report shows prices for many farm commodities have fallen sharply from 2022 peaks and will likely decline further for crops harvested in 2024 and beyond. The report also noted that lower prices for farm inputs, such as fertilizer, partially offset the drop in commodity prices but not enough to avoid declines in farmers’ net returns.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: Sorghum is not a well-known crop in the states, but this drought-tolerant crop could be a farm-saving plant in regions like the American Great Plains. Like many of the neighboring farms in his northeast corner of Oklahoma, his corn crop practically shriveled up due to the lack of moisture. Credit: Peggy Greb.

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DTN

JUNE 26, 2023

Grain growers won’t change their planting or crop protection practices without knowing how the switch will affect their profitability and long-term goals. Other sustainable agricultural practices (which, again, are not new concepts) include crop rotation, strategic irrigation, and using inputs with a low environmental impact.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

Marc Rosenbohm, senior research associate with the University of Missouri’s Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute, discusses the crop outlook during the 2023 Abner Womack Missouri Agriculture Outlook Conference on April 12 in Columbia. Based on forecasts by S&P Global analytics firm, U.S.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

This threatens native crops and wild species. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. The certified B-Corp brewery composts all organic waste and is working to reclaim runoff for crop irrigation. In 2016, Rhum J.M Rise & Win Brewing Co.,

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Agwired

AUGUST 28, 2024

This year’s TAP awardees come from 20 countries on six continents, represent a range of ages and work in varied fields, from farming to animal and crop science, agtech, nutrition, education, advocacy and more. Salford unveiled its groundbreaking Precision Row Crop Cultivator at the Farm Progress Show 2024 in Boone, IA. 30 – Oct.

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Next Spring, Olam Food Ingredients will be conducting a field trial with Nitricity’s calcium nitrate fertilizer. Geopolitical conflicts threatening fertilizer supply are only increasing. Commercially, we’ve been on many hundreds of thousands of acres, spread relatively evenly across cropping and grazing lands in the US.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

They sell the wild and cultivated seaweed dried, and use the less delicious, more abundant kinds to fertilize the saltwater farm they’re reviving nearby. Now, a new crop of seaweed startups, many funded by venture capital and tech industry players, is pouring millions into projects using seaweed to mitigate climate change.

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DTN

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It provides incentives for the agriculture sector to increase sustainable farming practices; it is poised to reduce biofuel and ethanol production costs while increasing profit margins; and helps lower greenhouse gas emissions across multiple sectors. A third party, such as a grain marketer can help source sustainable grains.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

The crop he and co-founder Morgan-Lea Fogg gather each spring lies just below the surface: long lines of slick brown sugar kelp. A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. The World Bank said raising this versatile crop in just 5 percent of U.S. territorial waters would produce as much protein as 2.3

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Here, manure is put into a digester to be turned into biofuel at Vanguard Renewables in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Jan.

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DTN

MAY 22, 2024

Progressive Farmer NAAJ AWARDS: Editorial writing First place: Urban Lehner Chinese investments in U.S. Here’s a simple stress test Are Russian wheat farmers outcompeting the world or is something else going on? Here’s a simple stress test Are Russian wheat farmers outcompeting the world or is something else going on?

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DTN

MAY 17, 2024

Here’s a simple stress test Are Russian wheat farmers outcompeting the world or is something else going on? Here’s a simple stress test Are Russian wheat farmers outcompeting the world or is something else going on? Has the case for ethanol come full circle?

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Agwired

MARCH 25, 2025

More than 100 agricultural and biofuels organizations sent comments in a letter to USTR seeking an exemption for agricultural exports from both newly proposed fees on Chinese vessels and graduated sourcing requirements for U.S. farmersboth in terms of inputs like fertilizer, seed, etc., and getting crops to market.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Idaho Farm Bureau Federation Idaho Grain Producers Association Idaho Potato Commission Idaho Wool Growers Association IL Corn Growers Association Illinois Farm Bureau Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association Illinois Milk Producers Association Illinois Pork Producers Association Illinois Seed Trade Association, Inc.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The global market for palm oil, valued at more than $70 billion last year, is experiencing steady growth, driven by its use in products as varied as food, beverages, biofuels, and cosmetics. Spoor’s mission was to get Ocho Sur’s crop certified as deforestation-free, but exactly what that means depends on when you start the clock.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 19, 2024

Farm policy observers also point to one of Walz’s biggest farm-related accomplishments, which was introducing bills in 2014 and 2018 that help small-scale, veteran and beginning farmers access credit and funds for land, equipment and crop insurance. Provisions of these bills made it into the final versions of those years’ farm bills.

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