…years, the smallest exports in 15 years and cotton prices at their lowest level since the 2009 recession, economic pressure is mounting in the industry. Meanwhile, cotton demand, 10 percent…
Hortau Secures $10 Million Investment to Further Growth in North America
…crop. This proprietary, plant-centric approach helps detect plant stress using soil tension, ensuring optimal crop growth, and reducing water and energy consumption, as well as environmental impacts such as fertilizer…
Wetter Winter Helps Ranchers Offset Lower Prices
…as “an absolute rollercoaster,” with prices soaring in 2014 into early 2015, then crashing last fall. But he said the market appears to be holding steady and prices may have…
Agri View: Agriculture Future
…several months amid lower commodity prices and lower farm incomes. It’s resulted in layoffs at some of the major farm equipment companies, including Deere. Additionally, some of the poultry companies…
Agri View: China Relations
…relatively high prices. The authors interpreted this finding as a reflection of the reputation of French wine and a strong preference for European wines. This pattern of imports reversed during…
Ag Producers Received Lower Prices In December
The latest USDA Agricultural Prices Report shows lower prices as a whole for producers, and particularly for livestock, poultry, and egg farmers. Ag Producers Received Lower Prices In December …
Food Prices pt. 2
Which items we’ll be paying more and less for in 2016. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. This Land of Ours – Food prices pt. 2 Will prices…
Agri View: Cost of Food
…butter prices were going through the roof,” she said. But changing menu prices to reflect a volatile market is simply not feasible. Donatelli raised her prices shortly after the holidays,…
Global Cleantech Recognizes Ag Companies
…such as fertilizer leaching. Visit Hortau.com for more information on Hortau’s proprietary irrigation management systems, and simplified software and mobile apps, or contact us at (805) 545-5994, ext. 358 or…
Food Prices 2016
…price Economist Ann Marie Kuhns predicted that grocery store food prices in 2015 would go up by 2 – 3 percent. However, prices only went about about 1-point-two percent –…
Four Californians Selected to Air Quality Task Force
…Phil Silva, USDA Agricultural Research Service Louisiana Annette Sharp, Louisiana Dept. Environmental Quality Maryland Lara Moody, The Fertilizer Institute Ana Rule, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Michigan Gerry May,…
USDA, Microsoft Announce Innovation Challenge Winners
…can use this mobile phone application to compare their input costs (fertilizer, seed, fuel, etc.) to regional averages, and find financial efficiencies where their costs are above the norm. •…
Agri View: GMO Questions
…per cultivated area should lead to lower prices. However, public attention has focused on the risk side of the risk-benefit equation, often without distinguishing between potential environmental impacts and public…
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
…way to better monitor how their crops are grown, Orrey says, farmers are able to use inputs — like water, or fertilizer — as efficiently as possible on their land….