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.
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.
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
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.
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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?
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
Modern Farmer
APRIL 24, 2024
Nearly four decades ago, Ron Mardesen and his wife Denise stopped using antibiotics on their hog farm, A-Frame Acres, in Elliot, Iowa. He decided there was a better way to raise his animals, one that wouldn’t require the need for routine antibiotics. After prioritizing clean feed, fresh air, comfortable bedding and plenty of space, he says his pigs began to thrive.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 24, 2024
On the University of Illinois campus, fewer animal sciences students than ever before have actual farm experience. A new program aims to get those students on the farm with livestock.
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.
CABI
APRIL 22, 2024
Two international experts in crop and plant health from CABI have visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) to provide training in crop pests and disease which may help increase livelihoods and greater food security in the country. Agriculture is vital to PNG. It provides 22% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), accounts for 26% of its… The post CABI-led PlantwisePlus training to help increase livelihoods and greater food security in Papua New Guinea appeared first on PlantwisePlus Blog.
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 23, 2024
Rural community resistance to solar development is expressed at the focal point of county zoning approval, with citizen testimony raising concerns over negative environmental and property value impacts on the surrounding community.
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
Global Agtech Initiative
APRIL 24, 2024
A 2023 survey reveals a consistent trend in increased technology use by cotton farmers. The post Precision and Agricultural Technology Adoption Trends in Cotton appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.
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 24, 2024
There are plenty of reasons to pasture your horses in the summertime, but proper pasture and grazing management can increase the nutritional value of horse pastures.
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.
Trimble Agriculture
APRIL 23, 2024
Agriculture is a low margin, high operating leverage business, where being just a little bit more efficient in all areas can have an outsized effect on profits. Farmers are in the business to make food not waste, but even so, an inevitable 88.7 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten in the United States in 2022 , roughly 38 percent of our nation’s total food supply.
AgWeb Farm Journal
APRIL 22, 2024
Growing degree days (GDDs) are a more reliable method to predict corn emergence and development than calendar days. Start calculating GDDs daily the day after planting. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie explains.
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 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.
AgriLife Today
APRIL 22, 2024
Fisheries management major inspired by childhood in state parks As a kid who loved nature, Hannah Evans grew up with what was perhaps the world’s best backyard — a 30,000-acre natural playground. Evans, a senior in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, graduates in May.
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.
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 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.
AgriLife Today
APRIL 22, 2024
Programs will focus on pest scouting on cotton The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host three cotton scouting schools in Buckholts, El Campo and Ennis in May. The events will be held at the following dates, times and locations: The cost to register is $10 and an RSVP is needed from those planning to. Read More → The post Cotton scouting schools will be held in Buckholts, El Campo, Ennis in May appeared first on AgriLife Today.
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