Real Agriculture

MARCH 7, 2025

Massey Ferguson says its new Hesston double small square baler is a perfect fit for farmers facing labour shortages and tight harvest windows. With the MF SB.1436DB small square baler, farmers can now produce two rows of bales per field pass. In this report from Commodity Classic at Denver, Colorado, Jessica Williamson, Masseys hay and Read More Massey Ferguson says its new Hesston double small square baler is a perfect fit for farmers facing labour shortages and tight harvest windows.

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Food Politics

MARCH 7, 2025

Michael T Compton, MD, MPH. Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables. Regalo Press, 2025. This one was sent to me for a blurb. Heres what I said: This endearingly quirky book describes Comptons love affair with eight families of vegetables for their growing habits, diversity, nutritional value, flavor, texture, and deliciousness, and he offers science, experience, charm, and recipes to prove it.

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Real Agriculture

MARCH 7, 2025

Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio! Shaun Haney is joined by Kelvin Heppner and Lyndsey Smith, both of RealAgriculture, and Tyler McCann with Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute for the RealAg Issues Panel. The trio discusses a number of topics including: What we know about the tariffs so far; Why there Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio!

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NASDA

MARCH 7, 2025

Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is excited to announce the hiring of Logan Moss as Associate Director Public Policy. As Associate Director, Moss will lead NASDAs Animal Agriculture and Natural Resources and Environment Policy Committees. I am honored to join the NASDA team and help advance its critical mission of enhancing American food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement, Moss said.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

The Dairy Business Innovation (DBI) Initiatives, Congressionally-allocated funds that support dairy businesses under the 2018 Farm Bill, are frozen under new government rules. Two Ohio grant recipients affected by the freeze share their concerns with Food Tank about job loss, interrupted growth, debt, and weakened local economies. DBI grants are housed by four regional hubs , which distribute funds to over 400 dairy businesses nationwide.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 7, 2025

How to get more farm business by marketing online. It's easier than you think. Online shopping isn't anything you haven't heard before, but as the modern place where e-commerce happens, your farm needs to have an online presence. Sure, people still go out to the store to shop for certain things, but they also want the option to find unique, fun, and local (when possible) products online.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks 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. For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Many of us have had to fight, over and over and over again, to get folks in power to take food and agriculture seriously.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

This 2025 Prairie Farmer Master Farmer from Philo, Ill., carries a strong passion for his family, service in the community and conversation practices.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) are central functions of development management. These concepts are familiar in every project today. M&E are used for performance assessment as they may feed back into the implementation process, helping management to improve the quality of its decision-making and develop a learning orientation.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Northeast Roundup: Delaware producers are eligible for a crop insurance premium discount; dairy survey launched in Pennsylvania.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

It is common for some companies to adopt an ad-hoc approach to marketing, particularly when trading conditions become challenging. However, in well-managed companies, marketing is a continuous process with no defined beginning or end.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Farmstead Forest: Foresters and landowners would love to find a suitable replacement evergreen for eastern red cedar. Maybe Black Hills spruce fits the bill.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Supervision in most extension programmes is government-controlled. The effect is bureaucratic red tape, which limits the initiative of the workers. The quality of supervision determines the extent to which the supervision in the extension system succeeds. Who are extension supervisors, and what work do they do?

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Corn Chatter: Sizing equipment helps limit unnecessary field traffic that compacts soil and hurts yields.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Demand and supply are fundamental elements of the market mechanism in agricultural marketing. They determine both the price structure and the movements in a free market. Demand is not merely the desire to possess a product but also the ability to afford it.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

There is no doubt the market is high, but instead of being fearful of a crash, be prepared.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Marketing is a discipline that is often misunderstood. Some people equate it with promotion, while others view it as a tool designed to sell things that people dont really want. However, this misconception is changing, driven by contemporary business dynamics that recognize the strategic nature of marketing.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Arkansas rice farmer testifies before the U.S. Senate Agricultural Committee, urging legislators to increase PLC reference prices in a new farm bill applicable to the 2025 crop year.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

The theories of management make it easier for extension administrators or managers to decide what to do to perform their duties most effectively. Extension administrators should be familiar with the major theories and try to apply them as appropriate to given situations. There are three well-established schools of management thought: classical, behavioral, and quantitative.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Between the Fencerows: Installing electric trap openers on grain hopper trailers could be the difference for keeping a farm employee.

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2025

With the help of a $150,000 grant, the Palm Springs Unified School District distributed 1,200 boxes of fresh produce to families in need today. The post Palm Springs Unified School District gives out 1,200 boxes of produce appeared first on Community Alliance with Family Farmers.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Road Warrior: David Kohl explains how a written operating plan can mean the difference between profits and losses.

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AgriLife Today

MARCH 7, 2025

Russell Jessup 97, Ph.D., has been named director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at San Angelo.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

2025 Master Agriculturist Don Weiss and his family operate a sixth-generation farm on the original 160 acres near Durand, Wis.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

A campaign is an extension method that can reach a large number of target beneficiaries in a short period. This requires planning in a comprehensive and integrated manner, using various educational and communication methods to achieve extension goals. Extension planning and field implementation need to be more systematic, interactive, and holistic.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Mike Pearson and Max Armstrong take the studio on the road to Commodity Classic this week where uncertainty was the theme. And Chad Colby takes a look at a new twin square baler.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Many concepts taught in classrooms do not tend to remain long in the memories of learners. They are soon forgotten or remembered only faintly due to the absence of field or practical experiences. Field visits are needed in many extension situations to reinforce the points made during meetings, discussions, or lectures.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Rejected by seven lenders before he found one to finance his farming start, John Maxwell along with wife Joan, daughter Amy and brother Edwin built Cinnamon Ridge Farms.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

The two initial stages in staffing an organization are recruitment, which is the process of finding qualified people and encouraging them to apply for work within the organization, and selection, the process of choosing among those who applied. The first concern in staffing an extension service should be the position of the administrator or director.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

With four 80-inch propellers, a 20-gallon tank and an 18-foot spray boom, the SC1 Guardian Agriculture fully electric drone is unique in its field.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Every organization should have corporate social responsibility as its ultimate goal. Efforts should be made to gain local community acceptance, recognition, support, and win the favor of both its employees and the general public. All chief executives and the entire management teams require assistance and advice from skilled public relations (PR) personnel.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MARCH 7, 2025

Recent advances in GenAI capabilities for natural language understanding and text generation are driving the creation of automated question-answering services for production agriculture. The post Center for Digital Ag Announces New Generative AI Benchmarking Consortium appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

The task of administration is to guide and direct an administrative process that allows the full participation of other members in the system. Administration is both an art, which involves many tasks and technical and human elements, and a science, which involves proven procedures useful for carrying out administrative duties.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Show-Me Life: Here is some humble advice spanning three decades on how to make choices to keep your family and farm thriving.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Personnel management refers to planning for human resources needs, hiring/recruiting employees, training, compensating, and retiring them. Training of workers is an essential component of personnel administration. Meaning and Functions of Personnel Management in Agricultural Extension 1.

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Western FarmPress

MARCH 7, 2025

Kansas Tourism: Lucas, Kan., is a small town with a big heart for folk art.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 7, 2025

Before the large-scale discovery of oil in Nigeria, agriculture was the mainstay of the economy. The government gave significant attention to agriculture with the establishment of marketing boards, which not only encouraged the production of specific crops but also guaranteed markets for farmers’ harvests.

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