…with commercial production dropping over 70%. According to a University of Florida report, the spread of HLB has resulted in the loss of 7,945 jobs and $1.098 billion in industry…
Managed Honeybee Colony Numbers Increasing
…over-winter period. The over-winter loss rate has since diminished to 22 percent in 2014-2015, but over-summer losses have grown. The net result is that about 44 percent of colonies perished…
Agri View: Job Losses Due to Automation
Everett Griner talks about how automation and technology advances have caused job losses in today’s Agri View. Job Losses Due to Automation More and more farming is becoming an automated…
Western View: It’s Longmire Days in Wyoming
…more to it. Love and loss, dreams destroyed and reborn, radical hippies and modern militia – these things are all there, just as they are a part of the real…
Coffee Grown in California
…southern California are figuring out ways to make coffee thrive by growing the coffee bush under the shade of older, taller, low-yielding avocado trees. At the moment, the price of…
Eastern Canada Dairy Producers Get Quota Increase
…products. Canada is mulling a nation-wide milk class that lowers the price of milk to make milk protein isolates to compete with U.S. products. However, that plan is being scrutinized…
Late-Harvest Processing Peaches Bring More Green
…often pay more for extra-early harvested peach varieties, but the researchers found significant differences in price, yield, and fruit thinning costs. The study showed late-harvested varieties to have a price…
Study: TPP Withdrawal Creates Export Loss for U.S., Gains for Canada
A new study says the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership will cost the nation more than $3 billion in exports. Meanwhile, the remaining 11 members would enjoy marginal gains…
Pollinator Partnership’s 10th Annual Pollinator Week
…direct result of pollinators. Declines in pollinator populations in recent decades has been severe due to habitat loss, pesticides, and other threats. To learn more about Pollinator Week you can…
Agri View: Chemical Challenge to Control Insects
…pay a heavy price in other ways. With no way to control bugs, insects, and weeds. The production of just about every food item grown on the farm would come…
Pork Industry Expanding
…among processors may lead to a tightening of packer margins and give producers much more favorable prices in the months ahead. CoBank economist Trevor Amen says, “U.S. pork processing capacity…
Western View: The Prairie Fires
…days, but those headlines faded quickly. Many people outside of agriculture had no idea just how unbelievably huge the fires were. The losses were terrible; entire ranches burned, cattle killed…
Agri View: What Impacts Farmland Value
…is looking for the best price, it may take a little time. That is because land prices follow market levels. When commodity prices are high, land values go up. And…
USDA Releases Latest WASDE Report
…billion bushels. The season average corn price estimate received by producers is unchanged from last month at $3.00 to $3.80 per bushel. The season-average price for soybeans was forecasted at…