Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Farmers Weekly We’re not a lot further on with drilling than a month ago, but we have at least got some done for others on drier land. A third of our winter combinables are left to sow.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Bayer’s new CEO says the company’s management is evaluating whether to spin off its crop science division as part of a company-wide restructuring process. A German news outlet reported in July that Bill Anderson was considering divesting the company’s agriculture business — one of Bayer’s three divisions, along with Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Consumer Health.
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Food Tank
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
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. Across all of human history, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food.
USDA Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The busiest time of the year for USDA’s Meat and Poultry Hotline is the week before Thanksgiving. Calls, chats and emails are answered by food safety specialists who even work on Thanksgiving Day to ensure your meal is safe.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Farmers Weekly New Holland’s CR11 might have hogged the Agritechnica headlines but neither it nor the John Deere X9 can hold a candle to the Nexat combine in terms of harvesting output. The gantry-style 1,100hp tractor unit is pictured paired with a 15.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
The brand-new CR11 New Holland combine made its debut this week at Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany. RealAgriculture’s Bern Tobin was there to speak with Lars Sorensen, global product manager for New Holland combines, and captures all the details in the video below. Sorensen says this combine is a complete redesign of the machine, where the. Read More The brand-new CR11 New Holland combine made its debut this week at Agritechnica in Hannover, Germany.
AgWeb Farm Journal
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Removing compaction and density layers before transitioning to a vertical system can add 15 bu. to 20 bu. per acre and might lower cost of production, according to Farm Journal Test Plot research.
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Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Farmers Weekly Former health secretary Steve Barclay has been confirmed as the new Defra secretary, following Therese Coffey’s resignation. Mr Barclay, who has served as secretary of state for health and Brexit secretary, among several other government posts, is parliamentary patron of the Conservative rural forum. See also: Steve Barclay appointed as new Defra secretary in reshuffle […] The post Who is Steve Barclay, the new Defra secretary?
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Nuffield Canada has announced the six individuals that will receive scholarships to fund self-directed agricultural research, including international travel, over the next two years. “This unique scholarship opportunity develops new influencers who will reshape our Canadian agricultural sector with innovation, global perspectives and leadership,” explains Blake Vince, chair of Nuffield Canada and 2013 Nuffield scholar.
AgWeb Farm Journal
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Schools across the nation have a crisis on their hands – a milk carton shortage that doesn’t seem to have an end in sight. But could the USDA provide assistance? One U.S. Senator thinks so.
AgriLife Today
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
New facility to help Texas A&M lead global livestock production through research, teaching, outreach Texas A&M AgriLife Research hosted leaders from across The Texas A&M University System in a groundbreaking ceremony of the new Animal Reproductive Biotechnology Center at Texas A&M-RELLIS, a 2,400-acre applied research campus in Bryan.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Farmers Weekly Snails may not be a regular choice in British and Irish diets, but in mainland Europe they remain popular as an everyday staple and delicacy.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
It’s not just interest rates and the cost of things that’s changed significantly in the four years since Agritechnica was last held in Hannover, Germany, in 2019. Then, the show was packed with all-electric every thing, or so it seemed. Agritechnica is often the home of prototype or concept machines, but as Nic Dubuc, farmer. Read More It’s not just interest rates and the cost of things that’s changed significantly in the four years since Agritechnica was last held in Han
AgWeb Farm Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
October marked the driest month in Panama since record-keeping began in 1950. This water shortage is leading to reduced traffic through the Panama canal.
Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
When COVID hit, Lisa Stroup was excited for her granddaughter to come stay with her full time. The girl’s father was deployed with the military and her mother is a front-line worker; it was safer and easier for everyone if the then-five-year-old moved in with her grandparents for a while. But things got complicated, and quickly. As schools went virtual, little Hudson had to start her kindergarten classes online.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Farmers Weekly Livestock farmers across the UK are being urged to stay vigilant after bluetongue virus (BTV) was detected in a dairy cow in Kent – the first confirmed case of the virus in Great Britain for 16 years.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
It becomes clear, after seeing and hearing from farmers from all over the world gathered in one place, that change is a constant, but the rate of change can happen in leaps and bounds. At Agritechnica this week, Shaun Haney caught up with the host of AgDay, Clinton Griffiths, to talk about what they saw. Read More It becomes clear, after seeing and hearing from farmers from all over the world gathered in one place, that change is a constant, but the rate of change can happen in leaps and bounds.
AgWeb Farm Journal
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Witnesses at the hearing acknowledged the benefits of new technologies, including increased crop yields and reduced waste, but stressed the importance of providing clear benefits to growers.
Agwired
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). The company’s researchers and independent scientists shared their findings across 14 abstracts, highlighting the latest pre-publication research verifying the mode of action and performance of Pivot Bio’s mic
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Farmers Weekly This season’s autumn drilling campaign has proved to be a turbulent one, with intense rainstorms disrupting drilling and playing havoc with emerging crops. As a result, the AHDB is forecasting that the UK wheat crop will drop to its smallest area since 2020, with a 1.3% fall on last year to 1.698m hectares.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Winnipeg, Manitoba-based farm equipment manufacturer Buhler Industries is reporting progress on finding a new long-term investor. The company that employs around 800 people building Versatile tractors and Farm King equipment announced in July that it had hired Toronto-based Origin Merchant Partners to find an investor who is committed to “preserving the legacy of the iconic.
Western FarmPress
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
If we are honest with ourselves, this cattle market had been on a run since spring and probably had gotten a little overheated. I don’t think anyone would have been shocked by a downward correction.
Agri-tech
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
An unexpected genetic discovery in wheat has led to opportunities for metabolic engineering of versatile compounds with potential to improve its nutritional qualities and resilience to disease. Researchers in the Osbourn group at the John Innes Centre have been investigating biosynthetic gene clusters in wheat – groups of genes that are co-localized on the genome and work together to produce.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Farmers Weekly The EU Commission is set to relicense the weedkiller glyphosate for a further 10 years after member states failed to reach a majority against or in favour of renewal. A second vote failed to reach a qualified majority from member states’ representatives in the appeal committee on Thursday (16 November).
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Identifying aphanomyces in a lentil or pea crop is just the first step in determining what to do next. As we saw in this video, farmers in Montana and North Dakota are facing similar pressures to other pulse-growing regions in being forced to extend rotations in order to avoid the worst of the disease. But. Read More Identifying aphanomyces in a lentil or pea crop is just the first step in determining what to do next.
Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Imagine a future where humans live entirely in cities in an attempt to minimize their impact on the natural world. Meat is made in factories and grazing is a thing of the past. This is not a world Chris Smaje wants to live in. The writer, farmer, and social scientist doesn’t believe that humans need to take themselves out of the natural world to protect it, and he argues for agrarian localism over ecomodernism in his latest book, Saying No to a Farm-Free Future.
Western FarmPress
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Economists point to COVID for playing a significant role in rising rural real estate prices. Learn more about land values in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, and what's hot in the land market.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Farmers Weekly New Holland has pulled the wraps off its highest capacity combine harvester yet, which it hopes will leave the competition choking behind its chaff spreader. Dubbed CR11, the machine has been some 10 years in development and shares little in common with the current 10.90 flagship, other than the basic configuration of the internals.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Up to $12 million in federal funding will be awarded to innovators to advance low-cost and scalable practices, processes, and technologies designed to reduce methane emissions produced by cattle. The Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge, launched by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada this week, is a key part of the Government of Canada’s plan to tackle climate.
AgriLife Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Team sweeps every division of contest The Texas A&M University horse judging team captured the 2023 national championship at the American Quarter Horse Association, AQHA, World Championship Show Collegiate Horse Judging Contest in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The horse judging team is a competitive team in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department.
Western FarmPress
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Slideshow: As Illinois livestock numbers decline and with them, large-animal veterinarians, downstate producers are left to pick up the pieces to tend to their herds. Here’s why it’s happening, and what’s next for livestock and the folks who care for them.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Farmers Weekly Hotter summers and record temperatures are expected to become more commonplace for future harvests, therefore increasing the risk of farm fires. In 2022, the UK faced an exceptionally hot and dry harvest with temperatures breaking 40C, which resulted in a 21% increase in the number of farm fires, according to figures from NFU Mutual.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
What’s worse than corn becoming a mess in the field? Corn becoming a mess in a bin or silo! On that not-so-happy note, we kick off this week’s episode of Wheat Pete’s Word, where host Peter Johnson makes an apology for a mistake, encourages everyone to send in plot results, and runs down answers to. Read More What’s worse than corn becoming a mess in the field?
Agwired
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Brooks Hamilton has been studying artificial intelligence for over 20 years, since “before AI was cool,” and he was the keynote speaker for the opening general session at the AgGateway annual meeting this week in Nashville. His presentation was on the “Seismic Changes” the AI revolution is bringing that will “reshape the industrial fabric.” Hamilton was thrilled to be able to speak to such an innovative group. “I’ve worked with a number of other in
AgWeb Farm Journal
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
A traditional Thanksgiving feast reflects two current trends in food-at-home economics: increased retail food costs vary by category and the supply chain is back to pre-COVID patterns.
Farmers Weekly
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Farmers Weekly A tractor driver who killed a woman cyclist and seriously injured her teenage son was using his mobile phone in the moments before the crash, a court was told. Jonathan Sumner, of Davenport Lane, Arclid, Cheshire, was jailed for eight years and six months at Chester Crown Court on Friday 10 November.
Real Agriculture
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
This year marks my fourth visit to Agritechnica, the premier global agricultural event, and it once again has not disappointed. Agritechnica is buzzing with activity as farmers and industry enthusiasts are here in droves, eagerly anticipating the latest in agricultural innovation and technology. Comparing Agritechnica 2023 to the 2019 edition, there’s a sense of pragmatism.
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