AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 29, 2024
While you can't make Mother Nature send rain, you can review crop-rotation restrictions on chemistries you applied last year. Knowing that information can guide what crop you plant where this spring.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved 3-Nitrooxypropanol, known as 3NOP, for use in Canada. 3NOP is a livestock feed ingredient aimed at reducing methane emissions from cattle. The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) says that it and the National Cattle Feeders’ Association (NCFA) have consistently advocated for new innovations such as methane-reducing feed ingredients to.
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NASDA
JANUARY 31, 2024
News Article The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is excited to congratulate three staff members on their recent promotions. On the policy team, Stephanie McBath has been promoted to director of public policy and Josie Montoney-Crawford has been promoted to associate director of public policy. On the trade team, Blake Ramsey has been promoted to director of trade shows.
Food Politics
JANUARY 29, 2024
I like sweet foods as much as anyone (maybe more), but I do try to keep sugar intake within reasonable limits. For one thing, sugars have no nutritional value beyond calories (which hardly anyone needs more of). For another, it encourages overeating whatever foods in comes with, many of them ultra-processed. Thus, I cannot understand why my nutrition colleagues would do anything to imply that eating more sugar is OK.
Agricultural Biodiversity
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Every once in a while I get the urge to remind everyone where they can get information on training courses in crop diversity conservation, and indeed training materials. So, anyway, of course there’s the Plant Treaty. A couple of online courses are available, on the Treaty itself and on Farmers’ Rights. Then there’s USDA’s GRIN-U.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 29, 2024
Tar spot was a little late arriving in Ontario cornfields in 2023, but the leaf disease ramped up post tasseling, and with an extended fall, took a late-season bite out of grain yields in southwestern areas of the province. Growers who sprayed fungicides to defend their crop against disease were rewarded with higher yields, reports. Read More Tar spot was a little late arriving in Ontario cornfields in 2023, but the leaf disease ramped up post tasseling, and with an extended fall, took a late-se
Agri-tech
JANUARY 31, 2024
Dr Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing as a tool for developing more nutritious, sustainable and resilient wheat, in a new series of Royal Society videos featuring Professor Brian Cox. John Innes Centre Group leader, Philippa outlines the case for this game-changing technology, in the latest instalment of Brian Cox School Experiment videos.
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Agricultural Biodiversity
JANUARY 28, 2024
Which crop biodiversity is used by the food industry throughout the world? A first evidence for legume species. Mainly soy, alas. Which is bad because… Diversified agriculture leads to diversified diets: panel data evidence from Bangladesh. …promoting diversified farming systems and market participation is good for women’s empowerment and better diets.
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
You can learn a lot about reducing tillage in 35 years. That’s the combined number of years Horst Bohner and Rob Templeman have spent leading Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) soybean research and extension efforts. On the first episode of the 2024 season of RealAgriculture’s Soybean School, OMAFRA’s current and former.
Agri-tech
JANUARY 29, 2024
Humans are attracted to symmetry: in our buildings, our gardens, in our potential partners. For plants, the symmetrical shapes of organs are a matter of survival because the form directly impacts the function. If we can unravel the mechanisms underlying the shapes of leaves, petals, or the complex reproductive parts of plants, then it may be possible to fine tune this physiology to make our crops.
Food Politics
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A Goldthwaite, eds. Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically. New York University Press, 2024. I did a blurb for the back cover: In Ethical Eating, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 29, 2024
Tim Kohlhauff remembers the days when his hometown of Spokane, Washington was in zone 5b on the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. When he was growing up, daisies, rhododendrons, and azaleas were always teetering on the edge of viability, the winter conditions often just a bit too chilly for their liking. But all that has changed in recent decades, says Kohlhauff, a Master Gardener and a Horticulture Coordinator at Washington State University.
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The Canadian cattle industry and the U.S. cattle industry are intertwined, perhaps unlike any other agriculture commodity in North America. Calves, cattle, and beef all move south — and north — depending on economics, demand, and the weather. For this reason, what happens in the U.S. beef market has a major impact on the Canadian market. Read More The Canadian cattle industry and the U.S. cattle industry are intertwined, perhaps unlike any other agriculture commodity in North America.
USDA Blog
JANUARY 30, 2024
Jordyn Ash, a sophomore at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, is a USDA 1890 National Scholar studying plant and soil sciences. Ash applied to the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program during her senior year of high school. She recalls guidance counselors providing excellent summaries of different scholarship opportunities, but she decided that the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program offered the best fit for her career aspirations.
AgriLife Today
JANUARY 30, 2024
Center to serve as global leader in research, communicating greenhouse gas emission impacts Nithya Rajan, Ph.D., has been named director of the Center for Greenhouse Gas Management in Agriculture and Forestry, Bryan-College Station — an organization established in February 2023 by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M University. Rajan is a professor of agronomy.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
New research from the University of Illinois shows that as extreme rainfall increases, more soil and nutrients are lost — and farmers are spending thousands of dollars to replace lost phosphorus and nitrogen.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 31, 2024
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has announced that Canada will become a founding member of the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium. The commitment also comes with $1.3 million in federal funding over four years. The Efficient Fertilizer Consortium (EFC) was created by the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, a public-private partnership that funds research to advance enhanced.
AgWeb Farm Journal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Oklahoma State's Derrell Peel points out with the U.S. beef cow herd the smallest since 1961 and the all cattle inventory the lowest since 1951, it’s setting the cattle market up for higher highs.
Philabundance
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
We’re excited to launch our Spread the Love campaign this month which will run through the end of February. The main objectives of the Spread the Love initiative are to collect food, raise funds, and increase awareness about food insecurity during a traditionally slow time of year post-holiday giving. Our goal is to collect and distribute 40,000 jars of peanut butter and nut butter alternatives in celebration of Philabundance’s 40th Anniversary.
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 30, 2024
Many regions of the state have received relief from the 2023 drought. Current rainfall is expected to help wheat crops. Concerns remain for a dry late-spring and summer forecast.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 31, 2024
Alberta Grains, the new organization formed through the amalgamation of the Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions, held its first annual general meeting this week at Calgary. The organization named its inaugural board, with Tara Sawyer as chair. Scott Jespersen will serve as first vice-chair, and Devin Hartzler as second vice-chair. Sawyer, who farms near Acme, .
AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 31, 2024
Go ahead and buy the special pliers or tools to remove those annoying plastic fasteners. You might as well order a bag or box of replacement rivets, too, because trying to reuse those rivets is a waste of time.
Food Tank
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced that it will put an additional US$80 million toward Food is Medicine (FIM) programs in the United States over the next five years. The new commitment will bring the Foundation’s total funding of FIM interventions to over US$100 million. “There is no time to waste for unlocking Food is Medicine’s great potential to advance health equity by improving nutrition security,” says Devon Klatell, Vice President for Food, The Rockefeller Foundation.
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 29, 2024
Will cotton producers see in-season price volatility around information milestones, such as the March 31 Prospective Plantings report, the May WASDE report, and the June 30 Planted Acreage report?
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 30, 2024
You can’t take it with you. In this case, the “it” is the farm, and if you’re putting off transitioning the farm to a new owner or manager, you might be missing out on a huge opportunity to mentor and continue the success of the legacy you’ve built. The trouble is, most of us operate.
Sustainable Food Trust
JANUARY 31, 2024
Julie Baber, who raises rare breed sheep in Somerset, covers some key discussions from this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, looking at why we must move beyond the perception of wool as a low-value by-product of the meat industry. Wool, with its unique natural properties, is one of our most versatile and historically important materials, having a huge range of uses – from clothing to insulation.
AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 30, 2024
You break, you pay. Fighting to save his farmland, Marvin Houin proved the government destroyed his yields.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
I am not suggesting every peanut, corn, cotton or soybean field needs to be plowed in 2024, but deep tillage once every 3-4 years can be a useful tool for managing troublesome weeds.
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The phrase work smarter, not harder is perhaps best applied when you’ve got no other choice — a one-person or two-person farm has no choice but to get creative when it comes to handling grain, the logistics of seeding and harvest, and more. But it’s not just farms with only a few people that benefit. Read More The phrase work smarter, not harder is perhaps best applied when you’ve got no other choice — a one-person or two-person farm has no choice but to get creative when it co
AgriLife Today
JANUARY 29, 2024
Baughman returns to Texas and Texas A&M AgriLife Todd Baughman, Ph.D., will return to Texas to serve as director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock. He will begin on April 1, replacing longtime director Jaroy Moore, Ph.D., who is retiring. “We are very pleased to have Dr. Baughman return to Texas. Read More → The post New director selected for Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock appeared first on AgriLife Today.
AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 31, 2024
Midwestern Farmer Marcia Ruff, 2023 Top Producer Women In Ag Award winner, splits her time between the classroom and the family farm - setting an example for others to lead from where they are.
Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The latest outlook from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center continues to show the continuing influence of this year’s strong El Nino according to maps released yesterday.
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The possibility that Canadian cattle and beef will face market discrimination if the U.S. government moves ahead with a new labeling rule is one of the main concerns representatives from the Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) are raising while meeting with American counterparts at the 2024 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Orlando, Florida.
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 30, 2024
Episode 4: Curt and Sarah talk through benefits of youth showing livestock, and their favorite stock shows memories.
AgWeb Farm Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
While resilient farmland prices were the theme in 2023 and farmers were in the driver's seat in most sales, Jim Rothermich with Iowa Appraisal has recently noticed a couple changes in the market.
CABI
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Digital tools are increasingly being adopted in agriculture in Nepal, fostering productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Whether mobile apps, farm management software, weather forecasting, remote sensing, GIS, or e-extension, these tools empower farmers with crucial information and services. As such, the digitization of farming gives farmers the opportunity to grow more, reduce costs and improve food… The post The uptake of digital tools in Nepal discussed at workshop appeared first o
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Linamar Corporation says it has completed its previously-announced purchase of Saskatchewan-based agricultural manufacturer Bourgault Industries, as of February 1. As part of the deal, Linamar has acquired 100 per cent of the equity in Bourgault, including the main seeder operations in St. Brieux, Sask., as well as hay handling and livestock feeding equipment-maker Highline Manufacturing.
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