After nearly a year of discussion, John Deere recently announced a $305 million-dollar agreement to buy Blue River Technology, a company specializing in artificial intelligence specifically designed for agriculture. Based…
South Korea Wants Step by Step Approach to KORUS
…the implications of withdrawing from the agreement. Further, former House Speaker John Boehner said withdrawing from the agreement would “do more harm than good.” Boehner helped ratify the agreement in…
Pork Industry Pressing for FMD Vaccine Bank in 2018 Farm Bill
…take months. Former Pork Producers’ President John Weber Former Pork Producers’ President John Weber For now, Pork Producers wants USDA to contract for an offshore vaccine bank that can protect…
AFBF, AFBIS, Others, Propose Dairy Revenue Protection Insurance Concept
…for dairy farmers, different from the current margin-based insurance options available. AFBF Market Intelligence Director John Newton explains how the Dairy Revenue Protection insurance concept will work for dairy farmers….
Update: Landowner Settles Wetlands Case
By Kevin Hecteman, California Farm Bureau Federation, Ag Alert Landowner John Duarte, who had been accused of federal wetlands violations after plowing a Tehama County wheat field, settled the government’s…
Ag Secretary Perdue Speaks from “Back to Our Roots” Tour
…One question involved a California case in which a nursery owner named John Duarte stands accuses of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally filling in a wetland when he…
Folta: Ben and Jerry’s Report Work of Bad Science
…of the herbicide. 7. Independence. The laboratory commissioned appears to be a relative of Genetic ID, John Fagan’s former company in Fairfield, IA (the center of the anti-biotech universe, home…
Study Claims Glyphosate in Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
…seem insignificant. John Fagan, the chief executive of the Health Research Institute Laboratories, which did the testing for the Organic Consumers Association, calculated that a 75-pound child would have to…
Input Needed for Dairy Revenue Protection Program
…for AFBF, John Newtown said, “It’s good to come out to California, the number one dairy producing state in the country, and get focus-group feedback from dairy farmers that we…
AgNet Media to Host Sonny Perdue at Citrus Expo
…growers will be eligible for a chance to win a John Deere gun safe, courtesy of Everglades Equipment Group. Florida growers are participating in the 2017 bactericide survey before the…
Mid-South Cotton Producers to See San Joaquin Valley Agriculture
…are: Louisiana – Christian Frierson and John Frierson, both from Shreveport; Heath Herring from St. Joseph; and Mead Hardwick from Monroe; Mississippi – Graham Flautt from Sumner; Paul Good from…
‘Worst is Over’ for Snow-Melt, Officials Say
…of Water Resources Chief of Flood Operations John Paasch said the heat wave “really ripened the snowpack.” “This heat event brought peak inflows into Pine Flat upwards of 20,000 cubic-feet…
Sugar Deal Sparks Twitter Debate
…U.S. trade law,” says Phillip Hayes, spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance. John Bode, President and Chief Executive for the Corn Refiners Association, says the deal strengthens protections for U.S….
Christmas Trees Getting Shaped for Christmas
…just say Christmas? Yep, it’s only a little more than 5 months away! We start trimming the trees and start getting a perfect shape on em’ for the customers. John…