…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…
Global Food Prices Rebound in May
A measure of global food prices increased in May, after a decline in April. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released its monthly Food Price Index Thursday….
Agri View: Food Cost Drops in 2016
…America pay for food we consume. The Consumer Price Index is the most accepted source for yearly spending. For instance, we paid less for the foods consumed at home in…
Healthy Diet with Affordable Produce
…spotted, since green and bright yellow bananas can cause indigestion and bloat. Green Apples. Not just low in price, but low in sugar and high in fiber. They also contain…
Secretaries Perdue and Zinke Stress Inter-Departmental Collaboration as Wildfire Season Approaches
…and the management tools available to us. By keeping our employees and the public safe from harm or loss, by effectively suppressing an unwanted fire, and by doing everything we…
Agri View: Good Vidalia Onion Crop
…a big price. Other farmers, who through the Depression years hadn’t been able to get a fair price for their produce, thought Coleman had found a gold mine! They began…