Real Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

What do you do if you’re a woman working in agriculture and you can’t find comfortable work clothes? How about starting your own clothing line? That’s what independent agronomist Michelle Durnin did in 2021 when she launched Durnin Farm & Ranch Wear to design and sell women’s workwear. At the Canadian Dairy XPO in Stratford, Read More What do you do if you’re a woman working in agriculture and you can’t find comfortable work clothes?

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Food Politics

APRIL 26, 2024

An investigative report from Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN): “How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries.” Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s development, contain high levels of added sugar. In Switzerland, where Nestlé is headquartered, such products are sold with no added sugar.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

The livestock industry needs a comprehensive, cohesive plan to address the virus. Producers, their employees and veterinarians need clear answers and support from U.S. agricultural leadership, moving forward.

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Agri-tech

APRIL 25, 2024

Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, research from the John Innes Centre finds. Beneficial soil microbes that live on or around plant roots can provide nutrition, help the plant withstand stress and protect it from pathogenic microbes.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 21, 2024

These days, the Canadian Federal Government and multinational food companies are investing hundreds of millions to support BMPs on Canadian farms. Here’s the thing, nobody knows your operation better than you do. These programs need YOUR feedback on what you want and need. Everyone in agriculture is focused on productivity and profitability, and so Food Water Wellness.

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Food Politics

APRIL 23, 2024

I received an e-mailed press release from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): NEWS: Sanders and Booker Take on Food and Beverage Industry with New Legislation to Address Childhood Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics. Sen. Sanders, along with Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Peter Welch (D-VT), have introduced legislation to Take on the greed of the food and beverage industry and address the growing diabetes and obesity epidemics n

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

USDA Now Requiring Mandatory Testing and Reporting of HPAI in Dairy Cattle as New Data Suggests Virus Outbreak is More Widespread apiuser Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:15

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 22, 2024

Incorporated farms in provinces where the federal carbon tax is collected should receive a little more back on their tax return under the “Canada Carbon Rebate for Small Businesses” proposed in the federal budget last week. The federal government said it would “urgently” return more than $2.5 billion in accrued carbon tax revenue going back.

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

I kn0w you wwill want to know about this. Take your pick: PRO Eating snakes offers ‘healthy and sustainable’ protein source: A new study has found that python meat could represent a more sustainable source of protein compared to conventional animal meat…. Read more However, a new study co-authored by Dr Daniel Natusch and Dr Patrick Aust, among others, has suggested that the commercial farming of snakes could help improve agricultural food security and offer a more sustainable alternative to m

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we're taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth.

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USDA Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

For Savonala “Savi” Horne, every day is like Earth Day, a day celebrated on April 22 annually since 1970 as a call to mobilize millions of Americans to drive positive action for our planet. As the Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers, Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) and a member of the USDA Equity Commission’s Agriculture Subcommittee, Horne stands as a steward of equitable land access and a formidable force in the field of environmental justice and sustainab

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 26, 2024

After a decent start of better markets in terms of cash cattle, the futures market ended the week to the down side. This volatility is related to news around the ongoing outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), currently confirmed in eight U.S. states and in 33 herds of U.S. dairy cattle. Earlier in the. Read More After a decent start of better markets in terms of cash cattle, the futures market ended the week to the down side.

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Food Politics

APRIL 22, 2024

I learned about this one from this article: Prune consumption may prevent bone loss for postmenopausal women. Dietary supplementation with prunes can have a broad range of effects on immune, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers in postmenopausal women, according to a recent study…. Read more When I see a headline like this, my first question is , as always, who would pay for something like this?

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

APHIS issued its final rule on animal ID that has been in place since 2013, switching from solely visual tags to tags that are both electronically and visually readable for certain classes of cattle moving interstate.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 24, 2024

On the University of Illinois campus, fewer animal sciences students than ever before have actual farm experience. A new program aims to get those students on the farm with livestock.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 25, 2024

The premise behind why a good healthy plant stand is important when battling flea beetles in canola is simple: the fewer beetles per plant, the less likely they’re going to damage more than 25 per cent of the total leaf area. In dry conditions, too much seed-placed fertilizer can hurt that plant stand and help. Read More The premise behind why a good healthy plant stand is important when battling flea beetles in canola is simple: the fewer beetles per plant, the less likely they’re g

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CABI

APRIL 22, 2024

Two international experts in crop and plant health from CABI have visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) to provide training in crop pests and disease which may help increase livelihoods and greater food security in the country. Agriculture is vital to PNG. It provides 22% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), accounts for 26% of its… The post CABI-led PlantwisePlus training to help increase livelihoods and greater food security in Papua New Guinea appeared first on PlantwisePlus Blog.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 26, 2024

A Margin Squeeze is Setting in Across Row-Crop Farms, and 80% of Ag Economists Are Now Concerned It'll Accelerate Consolidation apiuser Fri, 04/26/2024 - 11:31

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 24, 2024

There are plenty of reasons to pasture your horses in the summertime, but proper pasture and grazing management can increase the nutritional value of horse pastures.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 26, 2024

In closing out the first quarter of 2024, Farm Credit Canada has released a report comparing current harvest equipment sales to last year and the five-year average. Not surprisingly, combine sales are way down over the five-year average, but nearly all harvest equipment classes have pulled back significantly from 2023 sales, a strong sales year. Read More In closing out the first quarter of 2024, Farm Credit Canada has released a report comparing current harvest equipment sales to last year and

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Global Agtech Initiative

APRIL 21, 2024

The U.S. food and agriculture sector dealt with at least 167 ransomware attacks last year, according to the leading industry group. The post The Reality of Ransomware Attacks in Agriculture appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

David Muth of Peoples Company Capital Markets, the Investment platform for Peoples Company, shares how institutional investors have reacted to higher interest rates on their land investments pursuits.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 23, 2024

Rural community resistance to solar development is expressed at the focal point of county zoning approval, with citizen testimony raising concerns over negative environmental and property value impacts on the surrounding community.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 26, 2024

If current crop prices, input prices, equipment values, and interest rates have you reconsidering a major purchase, you’re not alone. Thinning crop margins and an increasingly more challenging farm financial outlook for the year are showing up in some equipment sales trends and forecasts. Large equipment purchases are rarely snap decisions, however, and many farms need.

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Global Agtech Initiative

APRIL 24, 2024

A 2023 survey reveals a consistent trend in increased technology use by cotton farmers. The post Precision and Agricultural Technology Adoption Trends in Cotton appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Grain and livestock close mixed Thursday. Alan Brugler, Brugler Marketing says wheat rallied for a 6th day pulling along corn and may still have some upside. Cattle recover with the help of better cash news.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 25, 2024

Survey reveals the economic impact of the horse industry in Texas. Land owned or leased for horse-related uses is estimated at 1.6 million acres or about 2.2 acres per horse.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crops seeded at the same time (in one pass or two) that are then also harvested at the same time. The seeds are separated post-harvest, and the yield can, at times, out yield what each crop would have yielded on its own. But not all crops. Read More Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crops seeded at the same time (in one pass or two) that are then also harvested at the same time.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Agriculture is a low margin, high operating leverage business, where being just a little bit more efficient in all areas can have an outsized effect on profits. Farmers are in the business to make food not waste, but even so, an inevitable 88.7 million tons of food went unsold or uneaten in the United States in 2022 , roughly 38 percent of our nation’s total food supply.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 25, 2024

Building on the Agras drone line, the T50 offers improved efficiency for larger-scale growing operations, while the lightweight T25 is designed to be more portable for smaller fields.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 24, 2024

Tech for ultrasound image interpretation, body weight estimation, and testicular ultrasound may determine productive versus nonproductive boars.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 26, 2024

What does soil look like after 20 years of applying the GRASS principles? (Those are covered in this video) A soil pit in this pasture that Steve Kenyon of Greener Pastures Ranching has grazed cattle on for about 20 years shows the results of using animal impact and strategic rest periods to build not just. Read More What does soil look like after 20 years of applying the GRASS principles?

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Global Agtech Initiative

APRIL 22, 2024

Distribution is core to the customer experience and thus the lynchpin for company success, says agribusiness analyst Shane Thomas. The post Distribution Is King: The AgTech Distribution Dilemma appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 22, 2024

Growing degree days (GDDs) are a more reliable method to predict corn emergence and development than calendar days. Start calculating GDDs daily the day after planting. Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie explains.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 22, 2024

It is speculated that machine learning will fundamentally change farming, from breeding of new hybrids to the ways farmers gather data.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 25, 2024

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says it has not detected a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in cattle in Canada at this time, and is not currently testing for traces of the virus in raw or pasteurized milk. “As with many reportable diseases in animals, testing is being recommended based on suspicion of.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

APRIL 20, 2024

One of the factors used in predicting the number of tropical storms and hurricanes we expect in the Atlantic Ocean is the temperature of the ocean, since tropical activity generally only starts when the sea surface is at least 80 F.

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