…are critically important issues for our industry,” said NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from Dysart, Iowa. “We’re very concerned about the resistance issue and about the ramifications of…
Agri View: Egg Prices
…egg products being available for food service use,” John Howeth, executive vice president of the American Egg Board, an industry trade group, said in a statement. “And barring any further…
Agri View: Driverless Tractors
…technology. It is considered driverless because it operates without the presence of a human inside the tractor itself. Like John Deere 8530 tractor with Kinze 3700 planter other unmanned ground…
North American Producers Committed
…John Weber, referring to a 2012 Iowa study showing that, relative to a 1959 baseline, pig production has achieved a 35 percent decrease in its carbon footprint, a 41 percent…
Support Urged for TPP
…artificially stimulate pork production through support programs in a way that will undermine the concessions they made in the TPP negotiations,” said NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from…
Conserving Water in California
Energy Department Assists with Conserving Water in California by John Coggin, Communications Specialist, Weatherization and Intergovernmental Program These before and after photos of Lake Oroville in Northern California show the…
Pork Producers Support ‘CARB’ Recommendations
…pork producers have taken steps to address the resistance issue, so we agree with these recommendations, particularly the need for adequate funding,” said NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer…
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
…is actively involved in her family’s farming operation, John Kautz Farms, in Lodi, California. She was the first woman Chair of the California State Fair Board in 1993, and received…
Food Price Survey
…quarter of 2015. This shows the effect of the HPAI (High Pathogenic Avian Influenza) event last year,” said John Anderson, AFBF’s deputy chief economist. “Prices soared in the latter half…
Sakata Seed Announces Contribution to UC Davis
…John Nelson, announced a substantial contribution to the Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) at UC Davis’ Kent J. Bradford Endowment initiative. The goal of the campaign is to raise $2.5 million…
Agri View: Inventions and Agriculture
…riding on the machine. The first twine knotter was demonstrated in 1867 by John Appleby. Sylvanus Locke developed a wire binder in about 1874 and it was adopted by McCormick….
Agri View: Apple Orchards
…history. Well-known American apple orchardists include George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The first American to orbit the Earth, astronaut John Glenn, carried pureed applesauce in squeezable tubes on his initial…
Agri View: Chicken Wings
…John E. Harmon, a professor of geography at Central Connecticut State University who wrote the Atlas of Popular Culture in the Northeastern United States as a sabbatical project, writes that…
Agri View: Real Horse Power
…their work easier. Some of these men, such as Jerome Case, Cyrus McCormick and John Deere, became wildly successful, founding huge farm equipment manufacturing concerns that are still in business…