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Corn School: How rotation impacts yield and crop resilience

Real Agriculture

Crop researchers can learn a lot in 28 years. That’s how long crop rotation trials have been on-going at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus. On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, host Bernard Tobin and University of Guelph crop researcher Dr. Dave Hooker look at the importance of crop rotation and key corn. Read More Crop researchers can learn a lot in 28 years.

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Average farm incomes rise to £96,100 despite volatility

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly The average farm business income in England increased to £96,100 across all farm types in 2022-23, according to Defra’s latest farm survey. During the 12-month period to the end of February 2023, average incomes rose for dairy, cereals, pigs, and horticultural enterprises.

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Happy Food Politics Thanksgiving!

Food Politics

Six items to cheer your holiday (or not): I. The cost of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner (in Iowa, at least). II. But the pie will cost less, says USDA. III. How much of that cost does the farmer get? Not much, alas. IV. Williams Sonoma’s guide to portion sizes. A half to a whole bottle of wine, per person ? V. The #FoodNotPhones Thanksgiving challenge.

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Agroecology Movements Turn Digitization on its Head

Food Tank

Like a hoe or a tractor, digital tools in agriculture may offer farmers opportunities. But as any farmer knows, some tools are better than others. Digital tools can help farmers monitor field conditions in real time, understand soil quality, plan their planting—and connect directly with consumers. Digital tools can also be costly and out of reach for smaller farmers.

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Winners of Canadian Animal AgTech Awards announced at Canadian Western Agribition

Real Agriculture

The first-ever Canadian Animal AgTech Awards were handed out at the Canadian Western Agribition (CWA) this week. The awards, presented by Deloitte, cover three categories: The Rising Star award, presented by Economic Development Regina; the Innovation award, presented by Innovation Sask; and Business of the Year, presented by Deloitte. The winners of each category were.

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NFYFC creates new course for ‘Drive it Home’ initiative

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Young drivers are being targeted with a course which aims to highlight the risks of driving dangerously on rural roads. To mark Road Safety Week (19-25 November), the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs (NFYFC) has launched the new road safety course aimed at young drivers in rural areas.

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Nutrition professional organizations should not partner with food companies

Food Politics

Just because all of the major nutrition professional organizations partner with food companies, does not make it a good idea. If nothing else, partnerships with food companies raise reputational risks. They give the appearance of conflicted interests, as David Ludwig and I warned in 2008. I have also written about the hazards of food industry sponsorship of professional organizations in Food Politics, Soda Politics, and Unsavory Truth.

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RealAg Bookclub: Farmall Century — One hundred years of red tractors

Real Agriculture

Just as farms tend to stay in families for generations, so too does the farm tractor brand. Some farms are fiercely loyal to green, red, or their chosen colour and for good reason. Tractors, especially some of the early models, are connected to legacy, to the memories of grandparents and great-grandparents, and to the history. Read More Just as farms tend to stay in families for generations, so too does the farm tractor brand.

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A practical approach to improving biodiversity and farm resilience

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Biodiversity is an increasingly hot topic within the agricultural sector. Lloyds Bank caught up with Stuart Holm, farmer and outreach manager at The Woodland Trust to discuss the opportunities to improve farm resilience and the approach he takes to biodiversity on his land.

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EATING SOLAR PANELS 

The Lunatic Farmer

A wonderful young homesteading couple from Indiana visited us over the weekend with a first person disconcerting story. Two weeks after moving into their dream homestead on 40 acres, they learned that the surrounding 3,200 acres and another 5,000 acres just down the road were leased for solar farms. Upon learning about this, they immediately asked the solar company if it would buy their land, but of course these outfits don’t buy land; they just lease it.

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Agricultural Outlook and Policy Conference, 2023

Ohio State University

This past Monday, November 13, 2023, the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) held its annual Agricultural Outlook and Policy Conference at the 4H Center on the Ohio State Campus. The Agricultural Outlook and Policy Conference is the premier annual forum related to Ohio’s agricultural and food industry, covering issues important to producers, agribusinesses, and elected officials.

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Pulse School: Assessing herbicide carryover risk

Real Agriculture

Once applied, herbicide active ingredients that land on the soil surface are broken down by soil microbes. Those microbes require moisture and warmth to chew through and neutralize the herbicide. When in-season water is limited, those active ingredients can stay in the soil, sometimes for years. Cory Jacob, acting provincial weed specialist for the Saskatchewan.

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Reward farmers for delivery of climate mitigation services

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Farmers who have already made the agricultural transition to more regenerative, climate-friendly farming practices are playing a key role in reducing the effect of climate change by delivering climate mitigation services. To ensure more farmers make this transition, especially in view of the current uncertain economic and political climate, they need to be financially rewarded.

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In farming and beyond, everyone wants to know you’re real

Western FarmPress

What’s Your Story? In a world where AI can generate confusion, consumers just want to know you’re a real farmer — or like the songwriters wrote, “All you gotta do is act naturally.

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Building a Case for Investment in Regenerative Agriculture on Indigenous Farms

Civil Eats

For three generations, Fanny Brewer’s family has been ranching the same land in South Dakota’s Ziebach County. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States. But for Brewer, her husband, and their four kids, it represents prosperity. The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land.

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Overcoming the Senate roadblock on Bill C-234 and pushing for fact-based bills on animal transport

Real Agriculture

Editor’s note: this audio was recorded during the day on Tuesday, November 21, prior to the Senate sitting for the day. We will update the story as details become available. Conservative shadow minister for agriculture John Barlow is pushing to see Canadian senators finally hold the final vote on Bill C-234, the bill that will. Read More Editor’s note: this audio was recorded during the day on Tuesday, November 21, prior to the Senate sitting for the day.

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Farmer Focus: Picking 12,000 pumpkins tested family bonds

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly October has been a busy month for us as we opened our farm gates again for our annual pumpkin picking events. Every year comes with its own challenges, and this year was the harvest of too many pumpkins.

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Hall of Fame Football Coach Credits Indiana Farm Roots

AgWeb Farm Journal

Indiana farmer Russ Radtke celebrates his ag roots while building a legacy on the football field as the second-winningest high school football coach in state history.

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Harvested peanut acres up over 2022

Western FarmPress

Despite back-to-back years of drought, harvested peanut acres in Texas are up over 2022. Production was still a struggle as 13,000 to 14,000 peanut acres were lost to dry, hot conditions.

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Beef Market Update: The holiday lull, cattle placement surprises, and questions about demand, Nov 24, 2023

Real Agriculture

As expected, cattle markets were a little quieter this week in light of U.S. Thanksgiving on Thursday. Still, there was plenty of trade, cattle-on-feed data, and export numbers released so that Shaun Haney and Anne Wasko, of the Gateway Livestock Exchange, have no shortage of news to discuss this week in the Beef Market Update. Read More As expected, cattle markets were a little quieter this week in light of U.S.

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Photo of the Week: Last of maize harvest ‘lights up’ spirits

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Many farmers will be breathing a sigh of relief as the maize harvest draws to a close, after weeks of grappling with the wet weather. That’s the situation for HC Beales in Norfolk, a family-run farming business and contracting company, mostly harvesting maize for AD plants and cattle customers.

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Rare Tractor Treasure Kept By Virginia Family For Nearly 100 Years Symbolizes the Grit And Toil of 7 Generations

AgWeb Farm Journal

As the seventh generation of the Cullipher family carves out a new opportunities, a 100-year-old tractor is a time capsule of the past and a symbol of the toil it takes to keep the family's farming legacy intact.

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U.S. peanut gaining competitive edge in Japan

Western FarmPress

The 2020 removal of a 10% duty on U.S. peanut imports under the Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement is allowing American peanut producers a more competitive edge in the Japanese market.

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USMCA dispute panel rules Canada doesn’t need to change dairy import process

Real Agriculture

A dispute panel convened to settle U.S. concerns over how Canada handled its dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA/USMCA) has ruled that Canada is not obligated to make further changes, following an earlier ruling in December 2021 that Canada’s handling of TRQs was “inconsistent” with the trade deal.

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Farmer Focus: A good neighbour is a good fence, they say

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly The fencing contractors have been here for the past few weeks. Surprisingly, the tractor and post-knocker can cross the fields without leaving too much of a mark. We’re concentrating on a few boundary fences.

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Port of South Louisiana Top Export Port for U.S. Grain Even with Historic Drought

AgWeb Farm Journal

The port of South Louisiana is the number one export port for grain by volume in the U.S., so it's important for U.S. farmers getting their product to export markets.

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USDA’s Updated Plant Hardiness Map Shows Where Growing Zones Are Warming 

Modern Farmer

Knowing the precise time to get annual plants into the ground and whether or not a perennial will grow in a given location is often buried in local community lore, but the US Department of Agriculture’s plant hardiness zone map is used by millions of growers to help determine which plants are likely to thrive in a location. This first version was released in the early 1900s and refined multiple times.

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Poll: What innovation is most likely to end up on the farm in 5 years?

Real Agriculture

After four years, Agritechnica returned this year. The world’s largest agricultural tradeshow for machinery and innovation, the show features a square mile of thousands of exhibitors, from concept-only, pie-in-the-sky ideas to the newest, coolest innovation ready for market. Farmers who didn’t make the trip can still see plenty of what was on offer through our.

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Government snubs MPs’ call for annual UK food security summit

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly A group of cross-party MPs has expressed disappointment after the UK government rejected its calls to host an annual food security summit.

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Soybeans Add Brazil Weather Premium, Corn a Reluctant Follower with Lower Wheat: Cattle Disappoint, Crude Oil Surges

AgWeb Farm Journal

Soybeans up adding Brazil weather premium, corn is reluctant follower with wheat making new lows on poor demand. Cattle disappoint after the COF Report, with crude oil surging. Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, has more.

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Azalea Flowers – All You Need to Know

Agric4profits

Azalea Flowers (Rhododendron spp) which are often referred to as “the royalty of the garden,” these elegant flowers are known for their outstanding colors and foliage. With thousands of varieties to choose from, Azaleas require little maintenance once planted and can be brought inside to make a fabulous bouquet.

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The Agronomists, Ep 132: Good data vs bad data decisions with Jeremy Boychyn and Paul Hermans

Real Agriculture

Small variances add up when it comes to data — a few percentage points difference could mean choosing the wrong variety or leaving huge bushels on the table. But what makes for strong data and why does it matter so much? From trial designs and reps, to site selection, and the importance of calibrating equipment, Read More Small variances add up when it comes to data — a few percentage points difference could mean choosing the wrong variety or leaving huge bushels on the table.

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Agritechnica 2023: Tafe swaps vintage rebuilds for electric and hydrogen power

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Tafe might be best known for its reproductions of classic Massey Ferguson tractors, but the Indian brand has been beavering away on a host of more modern products.

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‘The Migrant Chef’ Shows Us The Need to Create an Equitable System

Food Tank

Mexico City-based journalist and audio producer Laura Tillman recently released The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García. The biography delves into the life and experiences of Chef Lalo García, whose migration across borders and pursuit of culinary excellence have left a lasting mark on the culinary world. Tillman’s book begins with García growing up in rural Guanajuato Mexico.

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Aubrieta Flowers – All you need to Know

Agric4profits

Aubrieta Flowers named after Claude Aubriet, a French artist who famously painted them, Aubrietas spread low with small violet, pink or white flowers. If you’re creating a rock garden, Aubrietas are ideal as it prefers sandy, well-drained soil.

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RealAg Radio: Labour issues, corn harvest quality, and on-farm grain dryers, Nov 20, 2023

Real Agriculture

It’s Agronomic Monday on RealAg Radio! On this episode, host Shaun Haney is back from Germany and is joined by RealAgriculture’s in-house agronomist, Peter Johnson, to discuss: Autonomy to help dealing with labour issues; Yields and quality concern in the corn harvest; and, Enough corn for an on-farm grain dryer. We will also hear a. Read More It’s Agronomic Monday on RealAg Radio!

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How water treatment tech could cut dairy slurry storage

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Adapting water treatment technology to a farm setting could reduce slurry storage requirements by 10-15%, make better use of farm nutrients and produce an effluent that is suitable for discharge into watercourses.