…to June last year, the Dairy Price Index was down 23 points, or 14 percent. Meanwhile, the Meat Price Index increased 2.4 percent compared to May. Finally, sugar prices jumped…
Agri View: Vines Controlling Temperature
…coverage is totally dependent on the size and extent of the support. Tendril-climbing Vines Such vines support themselves by wrapping tendrils, modified, slender, flexible side-shoots, around anything to which they…
Monitoring Anthracnose After Wet Spring
…crop loss because the nuts that get the lesions and the gumming are not marketable,” Lightle said. Advisors have seen the inoculum in orchards this year and if growers notice…
Agri View: Pesticide Use and Losing Ability to Produce
…would drop 27 percent, with a loss of 132,000 jobs. A pesticide ban in the U.S. would decrease year-ending supplies of corn, wheat, and soybeans 73 percent, trigger price instability,…
Third largest Hog Producer using Wheat in Feed
The Maschhoffs, a family owned company that is the nation’s third-largest hog producer, says the plunge in wheat prices has the company using wheat in feed rations. Pro Farmer’s First…
Tools to Help Dairy Farmers
…2016, for coverage in calendar year 2017. Farmers already participating in the program can change their coverage level during this three-month enrollment window. Jim Mulhern, president and CEO of NMPF…
Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook
by Agnes Perez and Gustavo Ferreira, USDA Economic Research Service Lower Supplies Boost Early-Summer Prices for Sweet Cherries and Melons In late June, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released…
Food Security
…prices, movements in prices of other commodities play an important role in the food security picture. For example, the direction of oil prices is important for revenue for the oil…
July 4th Cookout Prices
…Cookout Prices From: American Farm Bureau All-American July 4th Cookout Ticks Up, Still Under $6 Per Person A cookout of Americans’ favorite foods for the Fourth of July, including hot…
Pacific Region Egg and Poultry Report
…and Egg Prices The April market egg price, at $0.39 per dozen, decreased 33.9 cents from March and is 48.0 cents below April 2015. The April broiler price, at 52.0…
Agri View: Animal Disease
…characterized by poor reproduction, gradual weight loss, oral and GI bleeding, renal failure and uremia, and high mortality. All color phases of mink may be infected, but light color phases…
June Dairy Market Report
…cheese prices in April, but large butter stocks did not prevent a continued rise in butter prices.The average all milk price was 30 cents per hundredweight lower in April compared…
Climate Smart Israel – Visiting the ‘Financial Innovations Lab’
…in the face of climate change. Meeting future global demand will require investments in a combination of yield improvements, resource optimization and loss reduction. A discussion about the barriers to…
National Pollinator Week
…not native to North America) and some wild pollinators are declining. Declines in wild pollinators may be a result of habitat loss and degradation, while declines in managed bees is…