Packer concentration and beef supply chain resiliency weighed on lawmakers minds on both sides of Capitol Hill, as House and Senate panels looked at food production issues during the pandemic Wednesday Ag experts told the […]
USDA’s Risk Management Agency this week authorized Approved Insurance Providers to extend deadlines for producers. The extension includes premium and administrative fee payments, deferring and waiving the resulting interest accrual and other flexibilities to help […]
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says a House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing Wednesday echoed the organization’s longstanding call to expand processing capacity. The Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on the State of the Beef Supply […]
The Purdue Farmland Value and Cash Rents Survey shows farmland prices across Indiana reached all-time highs in June of 2021. Statewide, top-quality farmland averaged $9,785 per acre, up 14.1 percent from the same time last […]
The United Soybean Board Wednesday released new consumer data shedding light on consumer perceptions around protein. More than half of consumers, 56 percent, say it is extremely or very important that plant-based proteins be complete, […]
The day one findings of the Wheat Quality Council’s Spring Wheat Tour found current yields for North Dakota to be 29.5 bpa, 32% below the 5-year average. Minneapolis wheat surged on that news and the […]
Farm Broadcaster Jessica Benson talks with Mr. Crandall about the tight supply and rocketing prices of fertilizer and WHY it’s happening. Factors include the effects of COVID-19 and labor issues. They also discuss pros and […]
The House Agriculture Committee Tuesday approved reauthorization for WHIP+ in 2020 and 2021. Chairman David Scott, a Democrat from Georgia, stated during the hearing, the severity of recent natural disasters “has required supplemental assistance, and […]
More than 100,000 family-sustaining equipment manufacturing jobs can be created before the end of President Biden’s first term in office, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. AEM says these are high-skilled jobs in primarily […]
The Wheat Quality Council is on their 2021 Spring Wheat/Durum Tour this week through North Dakota. Jesse Allen catches up with WQC’s Dave Green to discuss day one of the tour, what they saw and […]