Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head. But when it comes to driving higher yields, all those components take a back seat to the number of heads per square metre. It’s the big data point emerging from three years of data. Read More Wheat yield is made up of many yield components ranging from thousand kernel weight to head size and kernels per head.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Comment Re: Comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2023-0420, 88 Fed. Reg. 70625 (Oct. 12, 2023) Dear Ms. Bartow: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) appreciates the opportunity to provide these comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or the “Agency”) on EPA’s October 12, 2023 Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) concerning the Agency’s approach to

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Ag robotics company Naio Technologies and Canadian track manufacturer CAMSO have announced a new research and development partnership focused on development of new work tools, boosting productivity and reducing environmental impacts. The agreement will span multiple years and includes factory technical testing and on-field trials with producers. This work aims to adapt tracks on agricultural.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I learned about this one from NutraIngredients-Europe: The ‘promising’ role of saffron in stress resilience : New research conducted in partnership with botanical product manufacturer Pharmactive reveals that its standardized saffron extract Affron was able to normalise HPA [hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal] axis dysregulation following chronic mild stress stimulation in a rat model….

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Farm Management Canada is hosting free, one-day farm business practices assessment workshops across Canada beginning later this month. The workshop, Seeding Success: Assess, Act, Achieve!, is open to all Canadian producers and farm families and management teams. The workshop is funded through the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council, as part of the Sectoral Workforce Solutions.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Food and service have a special place in Walter Brooks, Jr.’s heart. Today, he runs Brooksmade Gourmet Foods in Atlanta, Georgia, which exports clean-label condiments, sauces and rubs.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Thanks for tuning into this Agronomic Monday edition of RealAg Radio, brought to you by Nufarm. On this episode, host Shaun Haney is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist Peter Johnson to discuss yield components, learning blocks, winter crops with cold weather, and more! We will also hear a spotlight interview with Tyler Gullen for Nufarm.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Land Values: If farm income increases faster than interest rates, farmland values likely will hold steady or increase — but if income declines as interest rates rise, it’ll pressure farmland values lower. Here’s what to look for.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Soybeans see short covering before USDA Outlook Forum. Corn follows beans, bouncing off contract lows. Live cattle see profit taking despite higher cash, feeders strong. Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing, has more.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

South Texas producers are on the brink of planting as an Arizona court vacates the use of over-the-top dicamba herbicides on cotton and soybeans.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Soybeans see short covering before USDA Outlook Forum. Corn follows beans, bouncing off contract lows. Live cattle see profit taking despite higher cash, feeders strong. Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing, has more.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 4-H food challenge features 4-Hers from surrounding states and highlights their cooking skills, as well as building awareness of food security issues.

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Global Agtech Initiative

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

AI robotics company unveils Track LaserWeeder for muck soil and two software updates. The post Carbon Robotics Introduces New Product Capabilities to Meet Strong Global Demand for LaserWeeder appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The West African Regional Center of Excellence on Improving Adaptation to Drought ( CERAAS ), a research organization based in Senegal, is building resilience in West and Central Africa by empowering women in agriculture. “Women in rural areas are the labor workforce in Africa’s food system,” says Marème Niang Belko, Agronomist at CERAAS. “But most of them are analphabetic, or have a very low level of education, and constraints to time management.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tanner Ehmke says, “It’s hard to put yourself in growth mode when things are getting so expensive.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Four Cotton Belt producers are recognized for their regenerative production of high-quality U.S. cotton.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“There’s nothing more simple or effective than a tree for sinking carbon, especially in places where we’ve been killing soils and releasing carbon for a long time,” enthuses Kaitie Adams. As director of demonstration and on-farm education for the Savanna Institute (SI) , she knows that agroforestry can be a game-changer in fighting climate change and creating healthier food systems.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The class includes the youngest honorees to date and the first pair of brothers to be recognized.

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Farming Farming 116

AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

AgDay TV Markets Now: Naomi Blohm says corn and soybean saw a technical bounce but are still watching two key factors this week for direction.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Mike Pearson tells us what the latest WASDE report from the USDA says about soybean production in Brazil.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Grains start mixed with soybeans seeing corrective buying, while wheat is lower and corn is stuck. Cattle seeing slight gains after sharply higher cash, hogs are two-sided. Randy Martinson, Martinson Ag, has details.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hog Outlook: The FAIR Labels Act aims to bring transparency to food labeling.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

8 Tips to Better Understand U-Joints apiuser Mon, 02/12/2024 - 13:00

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Seasonality pricing principles tend to apply more to corn and soybeans and less so to cotton and wheat.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week released a new baseline for USDA mandatory funded programs,

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Farmers and other ag professionals share what they believe it will take for more operations to adopt no-till and cover crops.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. The last two weeks have been hectic for the ZimmComm Team. I was in Orlando for CattleCon and I’m going to share some interviews from there in this episode. Then I was off to Ft. Worth for the Clean Fuels Conference while Cindy went to Scottsdale for the Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau Annual Meeting. You can find virtual newsrooms for all of them on AgNewsWire.com.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Doug and Stacey Keas are passing along their family farming legacy in Rooks County.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Rosario Grain Exchange said 100,000 hectares of soybeans in Argentina’s core production area were lost due to “irreversible stress symptoms” after extreme heat that lasted two weeks.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

USDA Under Secretary Jenny Lester Moffitt to discuss specialty-crop project.

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RR2CS

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you are a lifelong learner, being an agricultural producer is almost the perfect profession for you. Other economic sectors evolve and adapt over the years, but since nature doesn’t work off of blueprints, learning and adapting in agriculture can happen over days, even hours. You never know what Mother Nature is going to dish out, whether it is going to be the good, the bad or the ugly, so being able to observe, learn and adapt can be just as handy as mechanical skills.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Finance First: Two ideas to help the farm’s next leaders learn on the job.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Farm Climate Smart WI, a new collaborative project with the goal of empowering Northeast Wisconsin farmers to implement climate-smart agriculture practices, is set to host an educational event at the Oshkosh Food Co-Op on March 25, 2024 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. The event, Growing Climate Smart Agriculture in Northeast Wisconsin, will feature a meet and greet with Wisconsin Farmers Union, a presentation about climate-smart agriculture and the new Farm Climate Smart WI project, and a Q&A sessio

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opens investigation into deaths in Klamath County.

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Organic Farming Research

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bringing farmers & researchers together At OFRF, celebrating and strengthening the relationship between the researcher and the farmer is one of our greatest joys. We see these roles coming together and overlapping at Field Days - educational events often held on a working farm or ranch or at an agricultural research site. These events [.] The post Carrots, Tomatoes, and Field Days appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Pastures are not all created equal in terms of suitability for livestock production.

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Organic Farming Research

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

By Annika LaFave, OFRF Policy and Communications Intern OFRF Policy & Communications Intern, Annika LaFave in front of the capitol after nine meetings during NSAC's annual lobby day. Earlier this month, I had the exciting opportunity to participate in the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) Lobby Day with Gordon (OFRF's Policy & [.

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