Real Agriculture

JANUARY 18, 2024

Leaf twisting, burning, cupping, or crinkling — those are just some of the signs that a crop may be suffering from herbicide injury. Why do herbicides cause crop injury? University of Guelph weed researcher Dr. Peter Sikkema says injury causes can be classified into seven basic categories. That list includes extreme weather, unique or variable. Read More Leaf twisting, burning, cupping, or crinkling — those are just some of the signs that a crop may be suffering from herbicide injury.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 18, 2024

I think it’s time to start a new “of the week” series of posts—this one on egregiously marketed food products. Thanks to Jerry Mande, who sent me this email: Are you writing about Veggie Cheerios ? An especially egregious case of misleading marketing. This could be Rob Califf’s Citrus Hill Fresh Choice moment. Particularly troubling is that original Cheerios, a go to finger food for moms of infants and toddlers, is lower sugar and higher in fiber than Veggie Cheerios – which only have 2g sugar

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Food and Farming Technology

JANUARY 18, 2024

The DLG (German Agricultural Society) has announced the launch of 'FarmRobotix' as part of its DLG Feldtage (DLG Field Days) exhibition taking place in Erwitte, Germany from the 11th to 13th June 2024

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American Farmland

JANUARY 18, 2024

American Farmland Trust will be the Title Sponsor for the 2024 Solar Farm Summit, North America’s Agrivoltaics Expo, with a three-year commitment to collaborate in the development of an effective and catalytic annual event focused on solar projects that combine active farming with energy generation—a dual land use known as “agrivoltaics.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

Farm Credit Canada has added a sixth Sustainability Incentive Program for those who use FCC as their lending institution and use AgExpert Premium software. Curtis Grainger, director of lending products and sustainability programs for Farm Credit Canada, explains that this latest program provides up to $2,000 for farms that already use or implement 4R nutrient.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 17, 2024

Jerry Hagstrom’s Hagstrom Report , to which I subscribe, often has information I would not otherwise see. Here’s one example. He reported that USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service finally released its analysis of dairy checkoff programs, supposedly due annually by law. No reports were published from 2020 through 2022. Some members of Congress complained in a letter to Secretary Vilsack.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

From grazing livestock to local abattoirs, our sessions at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference were a chance to share some of our latest work and to connect with others who are pushing for positive change. In this article, our Head of Policy and Campaigns, Megan Perry, reports back from the discussion on the future of local abattoirs. Our session at the Oxford Real Farming Conference on ‘Local Abattoirs: Funding, Future Models and Next Steps’ could not have come at a better time, hot on t

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2024

When it comes to herbicides, the power to kill weeds and protect crops rests with the active ingredient. But how products are formulated can determine whether an effective active can be a winner or a loser in the field. “Quite frankly, there are active ingredients out there that wouldn’t be a product if not for. Read More When it comes to herbicides, the power to kill weeds and protect crops rests with the active ingredient.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here’s where I first saw this one: Antioxidant supplement improves sperm quality and pregnancy outcomes, research suggests: Supplementing men with a combination of micronutrients and L-Carnitine shows promise in improving sperm motility and pregnancy outcomes, a new study concludes…. Read more I could not wait to fsee the research. The study: Effect of Micronutrients and L-Carnitine as Antioxidant on Sperm Parameters, Genome Integrity, and ICSI Outcomes: Randomized, Double-Blind, and Placebo-C

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Agri-tech

JANUARY 17, 2024

The pioneering research of Dr Yiliang Ding investigating the structure and function of RNA in living cells has been recognised with a major award. Yiliang a group leader at the John Innes Centre, is among nine recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK, announced today by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 17, 2024

Back in the ’90s, beef was what was for dinner. As a fourth-generation Georgia cattleman, you’d think I’d be a big fan of that catchy campaign—but the truth is, the ad is the product of a system that has been putting ranchers like me out of business for decades. The beef ads were paid for with funds collected through federal research and promotion programs, also called commodity checkoff programs.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 18, 2024

Precision Planting’s Panorama platform and Climate FieldView, Bayer’s digital farming platform, have announced new connectivity for the 2024 growing season. Now, farmers using the Panorama platform, either by app or website, can transfer agronomic and farm equipment data to their FieldView accounts. Those using FieldView’s Gen 3 20|20 can view maps, input summaries, and agronomic.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 16, 2024

A reader, Kris, sent me this query: I hope in a future writing you can help sort out the mixed statements I’m reading about how pasture-raised meat lines up in terms of environmental/climate change concerns, (particularly if it doesn’t involve extensive shipping). I’ve seen statements and studies on both sides of the argument and I’m having a hard time determining what is supported science vs wishful thinking or greenwashing marketing hype.

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USDA Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

USDA scientists have discovered that the spotted lanternfly , an invasive threat to fruit crops and many trees, may have an Achilles heel – an attraction to vibration.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 17, 2024

Despite nearly 24 inches of snow, below-zero temperatures and raging winds that some people are affectionately calling “Death Storm #2,” Illinois livestock producers are finding ways to overcome the horrific conditions.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 19, 2024

Every two weeks, Anne Wasko, with the Gateway Livestock Exchange, joins RealAgriculture for the Beef Market Update. For this episode, Wasko is on with Lyndsey Smith, to talk about the cash trade, futures prices, packer margins, and heavy carcass weights of the last two weeks. Summary: U.S. cattle market trends and the cold weather impact. Read More Every two weeks, Anne Wasko, with the Gateway Livestock Exchange, joins RealAgriculture for the Beef Market Update.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 17, 2024

The weather in New York City can sometimes be extreme with events such as heat waves, blizzards, and hurricanes, and it can all change in a New York minute. In fact, extreme weather has caused New Yorkers to cope in a myriad of strategies from visiting one of our many umbrella vendors to stopping by a public cooling center. But communities that have been historically deprived of public resources risk greater health and economic threats from our climate, and, as the Executive Director of New York

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 19, 2024

As concerns grow, better data tracking is needed to understand just how much land is getting snatched up by foreign interests.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 19, 2024

We asked seven commodity market analysts to give commodity market outlooks for 2024 With their insights, the bearish market conditions will carry over, with a slightly more optimistic outlook for soybeans over corn.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 19, 2024

When it comes to machinery shops, most farmers like to build them in their yard from the ground up. But farmers are also innovators and some just can’t resist looking for alternative ways to get the job done. That’s certainly the case for Dresden, Ont., grain farmer Mark Richards who in 2015 came up with.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Current doctoral student Ally Milby-Blackledge shares her academic journey and successes Graduate student Ally Milby-Blackledge ’21 is beyond proud to be a part of the Department of Poultry Science in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. As a second-generation Aggie, following in the footsteps of a proud former student — her mother.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jennifer Tirey, IPPA executive director, offers a look at how the Illinois hog business is changing and what the Illinois Pork Expo will offer, coming up Jan. 30.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 16, 2024

Utilizing the Starlink network, this solution will allow farmers facing rural connectivity challenges to fully leverage precision agriculture technologies.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 17, 2024

There’s never going to be a one-size-fits all recipe for top wheat yields — too much depends on fertility, soil conditions, and weather. That said, there are some practices that year in and year out are part of a successful stand. Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson says that the Great Lakes YEN project has helped to. Read More There’s never going to be a one-size-fits all recipe for top wheat yields — too much depends on fertility, soil conditions, and weather.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Award celebrates contributions to game and non-game wildlife conservation Three decades of research, teaching and service advancing the field of wildlife conservation were celebrated as Roel Lopez, Ph.D., head of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and director of the Texas A&M Natural Resources.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 17, 2024

This article adjusts nominal nearby corn futures prices from 1980 to 2023 to real prices. The baseline month for real prices for this analysis is November 2023.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 17, 2024

Once you balance fertility and pH in the soil profile, and adjust to making small, more frequent lime applications, you probably won’t need to mix fertilizer into the soil, says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal field agronomist.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 15, 2024

AGCO is touting a five to seven percentage fuel efficiency gain for its new AGCO Power Core50 engine. The 4-cylinder 5.0 litre engine first appeared in the the Fendt 600 Vario tractor and AGCO is billing it as the “most advanced diesel engine platform on the market today.” It’s set to debut in other AGCO. Read More AGCO is touting a five to seven percentage fuel efficiency gain for its new AGCO Power Core50 engine.

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USDA Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

When Lauren Hawkins graduated from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, she had a job waiting for her. Thanks to her participation in the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program , she was hired right away as an agricultural engineer with USDA Natural Resources Conservation Science (NRCS).

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 15, 2024

Down the Road: The former Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory is now a museum of tractor-test history and shows the evolution of tractors.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 16, 2024

The world’s largest technology showcase is welcoming more and more ag tech into the fold. Here’s a quick rundown of what was on display from the world of ag.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles. Setting up this crop for great yield is the typical combination of establishment, nutrition, and crop protection, but in this episode of The Agronomists, we dig in to. Read More Canola is an elastic, amazingly resilient plant, but it starts as a very tiny seed and emerges under threat of certain death by very hungry flea beetles.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through digital transformation, MentorMate helps its clients plant, grow, and harvest products more efficiently to feed, clothe, and shelter the world. The post MentorMate: Using Advanced Technologies to Create Digitally Transformed Human Experiences appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Figure 4.9 from Chapter 4 of the Fifth National Climate Assessment The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) was released on November 14, 2023. Assembled by teams of researchers from a range of climate change specialties, the publication represents a synthesis of current research including an evaluation of the current and future implications of climate change for life in the United States.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

JANUARY 13, 2024

USDA's January reports were negative for row crops with higher corn and soybean yields and production. Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net is hopeful the markets have the most bearish news now factored into prices.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 18, 2024

New Holland is redesigning and restyling its line of forage harvesters. Up front, farmers will notice a renewed version of New Holland’s UltraFeed grass pickup on its range of FR forage harvesters for 2024. The UltraFeed will be available in working widths of 3.o, 3.5 and 4.0 metres. In this interview from Agritechnica, Laurent Libbrecht, Read More New Holland is redesigning and restyling its line of forage harvesters.

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Western FarmPress

JANUARY 13, 2024

Mike Pearson reports from his visit to the Farm Futures Business Summit in snowy Coralville, Iowa this week. We also learn about updates at FarmProgress.com, CES in Vegas and more.

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