Real Agriculture
APRIL 21, 2024
These days, the Canadian Federal Government and multinational food companies are investing hundreds of millions to support BMPs on Canadian farms. Here’s the thing, nobody knows your operation better than you do. These programs need YOUR feedback on what you want and need. Everyone in agriculture is focused on productivity and profitability, and so Food Water Wellness.
Food Politics
APRIL 26, 2024
An investigative report from Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN): “How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries.” Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s development, contain high levels of added sugar. In Switzerland, where Nestlé is headquartered, such products are sold with no added sugar.
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Civil Eats
APRIL 24, 2024
Driving north from Santa Barbara on California’s Highway 101, you wind through miles of grapevines climbing gently rolling hills. It’s a bucolic vision of agriculture, with hardly a worker in sight. As soon as you drop into the Santa Ynez Valley, that vision changes. Here, from March through October, endless rows of strawberries fill the valley’s plain.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 24, 2024
USDA Now Requiring Mandatory Testing and Reporting of HPAI in Dairy Cattle as New Data Suggests Virus Outbreak is More Widespread apiuser Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:15
Real Agriculture
APRIL 23, 2024
What do you do if you’re a woman working in agriculture and you can’t find comfortable work clothes? How about starting your own clothing line? That’s what independent agronomist Michelle Durnin did in 2021 when she launched Durnin Farm & Ranch Wear to design and sell women’s workwear. At the Canadian Dairy XPO in Stratford, Read More What do you do if you’re a woman working in agriculture and you can’t find comfortable work clothes?
Food Politics
APRIL 23, 2024
I received an e-mailed press release from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): NEWS: Sanders and Booker Take on Food and Beverage Industry with New Legislation to Address Childhood Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics. Sen. Sanders, along with Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Peter Welch (D-VT), have introduced legislation to Take on the greed of the food and beverage industry and address the growing diabetes and obesity epidemics n
Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper —the single wild relative of hundreds of sweet and hot varieties including jalapeño, cayenne, and bell peppers, found on dinner plates worldwide. The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that
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Real Agriculture
APRIL 26, 2024
After a decent start of better markets in terms of cash cattle, the futures market ended the week to the down side. This volatility is related to news around the ongoing outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), currently confirmed in eight U.S. states and in 33 herds of U.S. dairy cattle. Earlier in the. Read More After a decent start of better markets in terms of cash cattle, the futures market ended the week to the down side.
Food Politics
APRIL 22, 2024
I learned about this one from this article: Prune consumption may prevent bone loss for postmenopausal women. Dietary supplementation with prunes can have a broad range of effects on immune, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in postmenopausal women, according to a recent study…. Read more When I see a headline like this, my first question is , as always, who would pay for something like this?
Agri-tech
APRIL 25, 2024
Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, research from the John Innes Centre finds. Beneficial soil microbes that live on or around plant roots can provide nutrition, help the plant withstand stress and protect it from pathogenic microbes.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 24, 2024
The livestock industry needs a comprehensive, cohesive plan to address the virus. Producers, their employees and veterinarians need clear answers and support from U.S. agricultural leadership, moving forward.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 26, 2024
What does soil look like after 20 years of applying the GRASS principles? (Those are covered in this video) A soil pit in this pasture that Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching has grazed cattle on for about 20 years shows the results of using animal impact and strategic rest periods to build not just. Read More What does soil look like after 20 years of applying the GRASS principles?
Food Politics
APRIL 25, 2024
I kn0w you wwill want to know about this. Take your pick: PRO Eating snakes offers ‘healthy and sustainable’ protein source: A new study has found that python meat could represent a more sustainable source of protein compared to conventional animal meat…. Read more However, a new study co-authored by Dr Daniel Natusch and Dr Patrick Aust, among others, has suggested that the commercial farming of snakes could help improve agricultural food security and offer a more sustainable alternative to m
Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
For many Alaska Native communities, subsistence hunting and fishing is a way of life. For the Apassingok family, it accounts for more than 80 percent of their food. If Daniel Apassingok and his sons, Chris and Chase, have a particularly fruitful day out on the water pursuing seals, walruses, and whales, they can feed their entire Siberian Yup’ik village of Gambell.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 23, 2024
Federal officials say a dry depression on Dan Ward’s Iowa land, 100 miles from a navigable river, is “waters of the United States.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 22, 2024
For Ingersoll, Ont., dairy farmer Darryl Markus it’s all about giving back. Earlier this month at the Canadian Dairy XPO (CDX), Markus and his family, and the entire Canadian dairy industry, were on hand for the Calves for a Cause auction to benefit London Children’s Health Foundation. Markus started the auction four years ago to show. Read More For Ingersoll, Ont., dairy farmer Darryl Markus it’s all about giving back.
Food Politics
APRIL 24, 2024
Thanks to everyone who flooded my mailbox with this piece from The Guardian: She was fired after not endorsing Splenda-filled salads to people with diabetes. Why? According to a lawsuit {Elizabeth] Hanna recently filed against the ADA, the organization – which endorses recipes and food plans on its websiteand on the websites of “partner” food brands – tried to get her to greenlight recipes that she believedflew in the face of the ADA’s mission.
USDA Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
For Savonala “Savi” Horne, every day is like Earth Day, a day celebrated on April 22 annually since 1970 as a call to mobilize millions of Americans to drive positive action for our planet. As the Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) and a member of the USDA Equity Commission’s Agriculture Subcommittee, Horne stands as a steward of equitable land access and a formidable force in the field of environmental justice and sustainab
Western FarmPress
APRIL 22, 2024
It is speculated that machine learning will fundamentally change farming, from breeding of new hybrids to the ways farmers gather data.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 26, 2024
If current crop prices, input prices, equipment values, and interest rates have you reconsidering a major purchase, you’re not alone. Thinning crop margins and an increasingly more challenging farm financial outlook for the year are showing up in some equipment sales trends and forecasts. Large equipment purchases are rarely snap decisions, however, and many farms need.
NASDA
APRIL 24, 2024
Growing up on a Virginia sheep and cattle farm with two veterinarians as parents made me realize early on that what goes on in the rooms of policymakers has real effects for the boots-on-the-ground of the industry. From working on cattle farms to grain elevators to pesticide cooperatives, I have seen how policy can affect prices, usage of products and public opinion.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 26, 2024
“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we're taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth.
AgriLife Today
APRIL 23, 2024
David Reed, Ph.D., finishes his final semester teaching Horticultural Science and Practices The post 46 years of HORT 201 appeared first on AgriLife Today.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 25, 2024
New Holland is touting its recent joint venture with Raven industries as an opportunity for grain growers to access grain cart automation that can reduce cart operator stress and also reduce grain spillage. Earlier this year, New Holland announced a joint venture with Raven Industries to make Raven Cart Automation available on its combines in. Read More New Holland is touting its recent joint venture with Raven industries as an opportunity for grain growers to access grain cart automation that c
NASDA
APRIL 24, 2024
Collaboration and community. These are two things that I have learned throughout my experience at NASDA and what I believe makes the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture unique. When I first applied for this internship I did not know a lot about NASDA, but what I quickly learned was that NASDA is a very collaborative organization that combines the expertise of its staff, members and partners to make real change in advancing and supporting agriculture.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 26, 2024
A Margin Squeeze is Setting in Across Row-Crop Farms, and 80% of Ag Economists Are Now Concerned It'll Accelerate Consolidation apiuser Fri, 04/26/2024 - 11:31
Western FarmPress
APRIL 24, 2024
Tech for ultrasound image interpretation, body weight estimation, and testicular ultrasound may determine productive versus nonproductive boars.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 24, 2024
From hitch pin to closing wheels, Kinze plans to introduce a new 5670 pivot fold, split-row model planter for the 2025 planting season. “It’s kind of the next member of our 5000 series family,” says Kinze product specialist Brad Niensteadt. In this report from Commodity Classic in Houston, Texas, he tells RealAgriculture’s Bernard Tobin that.
NASDA
APRIL 24, 2024
Letter Dear Ambassador Tai, On behalf of the U.S. food and agriculture community, we urge your enhanced engagement on trade policies to bolster our global competitive standing around the world. Recommitting to an aggressive trade agenda, holding parties accountable to commitments, and improving trade enforcement mechanisms are critical steps that need to be taken.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 26, 2024
APHIS issued its final rule on animal ID that has been in place since 2013, switching from solely visual tags to tags that are both electronically and visually readable for certain classes of cattle moving interstate.
Western FarmPress
APRIL 26, 2024
FP Next — Deep Dive: A Farm Futures columnist and farmer in Iowa and Brazil talks about opportunities and challenges in Brazilian agriculture.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 24, 2024
Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has announced the appointment of David Hunt as the new chief commissioner of the Canadian Grain Commission. Hunt will replace Doug Chorney, whose term expires at the end of April. Chorney chose to not re-apply for the job. Hunt has worked for the Manitoba government since 2007, starting as a.
Modern Farmer
APRIL 22, 2024
Up to 40 percent of all food produced around the world never makes it to anyone’s plate—a staggering fact. As Congress works to finalize the most important piece of food legislation—the coming 2024 Farm Bill—our elected leaders have an opportunity to make real progress on food waste. In the US, an estimated 77 million tons of food are wasted annually, even as one in eight American families struggles with hunger.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 24, 2024
David Muth of Peoples Company Capital Markets, the Investment platform for Peoples Company, shares how institutional investors have reacted to higher interest rates on their land investments pursuits.
Western FarmPress
APRIL 26, 2024
Most of it is owed by businesses that have already failed.
Real Agriculture
APRIL 22, 2024
Building on a solid foundation is one way to produce a dependable planter that offers the latest in precision planting technology. That’s what farmers can expect when they take a look at Massey Ferguson VE Series planters, says marketing product specialist Forrest Francis. In this report from Commodity Classic at Houston, Texas, Francis notes how.
USDA Blog
APRIL 23, 2024
For the people living on Smith Island, the water matters. But it’s about more than the beautiful views of the Chesapeake Bay from the picturesque island ten miles from the mainland. The multi-generational residents depend on the surrounding Chesapeake Bay for their livelihoods. For many, crabbing, oystering, and ecotourism are what puts dollars in their bank accounts, and food on their tables.
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