Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it can produce in the grain. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding. Read More In recent years, many corn growers in Ontario have wrestled with gibberella ear rot in the crop and the high levels of deoxynivalenol (DON) levels it

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The USDA announced the latest data on the US agricultural system in a press release. It summarizes the highlights: Number of farms: 1.9 million (down 7% from 2017) Average size: 463 acres (up 5%) Total farmland: 880 million acres of farmland (down 2%), accounting for 39% of all U.S. land. Revenues: $543 billion (up from $389 billion) Net cash income (less expenses): $152 billion.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars. The high leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration of crops was already there in their wild relatives, the first farmers just happened to domesticate greedy plants. The impact of farming on prehistoric culinary practices throughout Northern Europe.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Wildfires leave damages across more than 1 million acres Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is establishing Animal Supply Points in several.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Protein Industries Canada will contribute $7.3 million in to a project focused on creating new ingredient and food options with oat and pulse ingredients created by Avena Foods for use by Big Mountain Foods, Danone Canada and Old Dutch. The project plans to develop ingredient replacements and processing aids for new foods, including allergy-friendly alternatives.

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Food Politics

MARCH 1, 2024

Anne Mendelson. Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood. Columbia University Press, 2023 (396 pages). I am an admirer of Anne Mendelson’s books and did a blurb for her Chow Chop Suey. But this one is over the top—original, compelling, brilliantly written. Driving this book is a question I’ve not heard asked before, at least not so directly: Why and how did the consumption of fresh liquid milk (“drinking-milk”)—as opposed to fermented dairy products—become framed as a nutritional necessity?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article was co-produced and co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s—and the world’s—food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 1, 2024

We know the Canadian cattle herd has been shrinking, but by how much? In this week’s Beef Market Update, Anne Wasko shares the January 1, 2024 Canadian cattle inventory numbers and shares some context on not only what it means for the current beef and dairy cow herd, but also how the inventory breaks-down by. Read More We know the Canadian cattle herd has been shrinking, but by how much?

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I’m always interested in the USDA’s charts displaying food and agriculture statistics. They help to clarify complicated issues. Agricultural trade is particularly opaque, but here it is at a glance. First, what the US exports: Next, what we import: What so bizarre here is that the categories are the same; we export and import the same kinds of products.

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USDA Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I am the director of agriculture programs at the University of Arizona Yuma (UAZ Yuma), a regional Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) that offers tailored degree programs that meet regional workforce's needs. The student population is approximately 70% Hispanic and first generation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Under pewter-colored skies, Alan Bedtka tramps through the snow and past a stand of sorghum-sudangrass, its chest-high stems rattling in the harsh wind. The tall forage stands out in southeastern Minnesota’s corn and soybean fields, which this time of year have been reduced to stubble poking through the snow. Bedtka is in his mid-30s and working to raising a small cow-calf beef herd profitably.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 1, 2024

There are at least two options for increasing efficiency on the farm: use wider, larger equipment or use smaller technology that gets the job done faster. In the race between larger equipment and automation, which class do you think is winning?

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The headline got my attention: New study finds meat eaters are more willing to try plant-based products when packaged in red. This e-mailed press release came from ProVeg International, a German “food awareness organisation with the mission to replace 50% of animal products globally with plant-based and cultivated foods by 2040.” A groundbreaking new report released by ProVeg International, titled, “ The Power of Colour: Nudging Consumers Toward Plant-Based Meat Consumption ,” reveals key insigh

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Digital photos, video, ownership records vital in reporting procedures Landowners who have experienced Panhandle wildfire losses to agricultural infrastructure or livestock are advised to properly document losses in preparation for filing insurance claims or qualifying for federal assistance. “It is recommended that landowners take photos of deceased livestock before burial, as well as burned equipment, Read More → The post Texas Panhandle wildfires: Documenting agricultural losses appeare

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

At least three U.S.-bound cargo ships are preparing to load with soybeans at two ports in Northern Brazil, according to shipping lineup data seen by Reuters.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

John Deere has unveiled a lineup of new machines and technology at Commodity Classic in Houston, Texas, this week, including the anticipated 830 horsepower 9RX series tractors, as well as S7 Series combines and C-Series air carts. “This is one of the largest product launches in our company’s history, and it reflects John Deere’s commitment.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Every now and then, someone sends me something about industry-funded research that does my work for me. Here is an example. I received this e-mailed message from John Andrews (reproduced with permission). I’m sure others will have shared this with you, but as someone primed by reading your work to dig into authors’ backgrounds, I couldn’t help but notice some aspects of a new special issue of Animal Frontiers on ‘The Societal Role of Meat’ ( link ) that you might be interested to see.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Episode 7: In this Farm Files episode, Curt and Sarah discuss the ups and downs in a farm marriage and share advice for farm couples.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Growing up, I was an A student, president of the Student Council, and poor. However, benefits my mother received made me ineligible for free lunch. As a result, I often went without breakfast or lunch entirely. I would find myself eating leftovers from other people’s plates. One day, I decided I wasn’t going to be hungry anymore. I got in line in the cafeteria and filled my tray with food.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Have you got your bushels covered? Matt Bennett of AgMarket.net says that if farmers still have a lot of unpriced grain, it’s going to take some work to minimize losses in the next few months. Bennett spoke to several farm audiences at Commodity Classic at Houston, Texas, this week and he says farmers are listening. Read More Have you got your bushels covered?

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

While the Smokehouse Creek Fire rapidly became the state's largest in history, four other wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 1, 2024

Four cotton producers were recognized this morning among family and friends. Take a look to see who was there and what the winners had to say.

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Food Tank

MARCH 1, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. Every spring, I find much solace and purpose in gardening. This has only been magnified over the past four years. Today, on Leap Day, I’m reflecting on the last time our calendar showed February 29: I’d just returned from visiting friends out of town.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The labour gap in the farming sector is a pressing issue, and with the physically demanding and seasonal nature of farm work, finding suitable workers is an annual struggle. In this latest episode of the Farm Safety Roundup, Shaun Haney is joined by Jay Remsik, a health and safety consultant at Workplace Safety and Prevention. Read More The labour gap in the farming sector is a pressing issue, and with the physically demanding and seasonal nature of farm work, finding suitable workers is an annu

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A new S7 series combine, high-horsepower 9RX tractors, C series carts and Hagie STS sprayers with factory-installed See & Spray Premium highlight a splashy group of product intros.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 1, 2024

With inventory increasing, machinery and equipment sales are uncertain.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is ‘local’ food? It’s a term we’re all familiar with and something we think we’d be quite confident at explaining – until we try. From definitions based on geographical distance to defining local in terms of things like environmental performance and social value, or suggestions that local should mean what consumers think it means, this apparently common sense term has evaded being pinned down.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Soybean prices aren’t the shiny prize they were a year or so ago, and that has plenty of farmers sharpening the pencil on cropping plans. If input dollars are scarce (and they always are), where do you spend and where to do you save? For that conversation, when it comes to the most important pass, Read More Soybean prices aren’t the shiny prize they were a year or so ago, and that has plenty of farmers sharpening the pencil on cropping plans.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

USDA now forecasts fiscal year (FY) 2024 ag exports at $170.5 billion, up $1.0 billion from the November forecast.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Cotton Incorporated has done a great job over the years educating brands, retailers, and consumers on the natural benefits of U.S. grown cotton.

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AgriLife Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Texas A&M AgriLife Research soil and crop scientists are exploring and discovering the possibilities for this new crop Russ Jessup, Ph.D., and his team of student researchers see themselves as explorers, charting the future of a new crop – they are the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Industrial Hemp Breeding Team. Facing the unknown and exploring, Read More → The post Charting the path for industrial hemp in Texas and beyond appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 1, 2024

The jewel in the 2025 John Deere lineup crown was unveiled at Commodity Classic at Houston, Texas, this week. The new 9Rx line up available with 710, 770, or 830 horsepower, four tracks and heaps of new features turned heads and had the whole crowd talking. Our own Bern Tobin was at the John Deere. Read More The jewel in the 2025 John Deere lineup crown was unveiled at Commodity Classic at Houston, Texas, this week.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Devastating wildfires are burning in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle region and the Smokehouse Creek Fire has already become the second largest in Texas history, consuming at least half a million acres.

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Western FarmPress

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Equal access? There's a gap between essential legal support infrastructure in rural areas versus urban. Rural residents often face major challenges accessing legal services and representation.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The Carood Watershed Project in the Philippines is working to restore and rejuvenate the natural environment within the Carood Watershed area. The project helps to demonstrate the importance of environmental restoration to livelihoods and food security. The Watershed Project, supported by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), focuses on restoring degraded forests, preserving water reservoirs, and promoting sustainable land management practices.

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Canadian Centre for Food Integrity (CCFI) has named Lisa Bishop Spencer as its new executive director, effective March 4th, 2024. “The opportunity to make a meaningful impact to the CCFI’s by fostering transparency and confidence in our nation’s food production is both a privilege and a responsibility that I wholeheartedly embrace.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

MARCH 1, 2024

Replacing worn closing wheel frame bushings on planters is a recurring expense and chore. The kits work well, and they aren’t hard to install.

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