…Too many of administrative delays. If workers arrive a week late, some of these crops may as well remain in the field. There are at lease sixteen crops in twenty-two…
Agri View: More Ag Technology
…develop the next generation of plants, seed and chemical elements that will keep the volume of crops and livestock on the rise. Without that laboratory progress half of the world…
Economic Analysis of the 2016 CA Drought for Ag
…to drought, a small proportion of California’s 9.3 million acres of irrigated crops. Almost all fallowed land due to drought is projected to be on the west side of the…
Agrium in Merger Talks with Potash Corp.
…and products to our grower customers to help them increase their yields and returns on hundreds of different crops. With a focus on sustainability, the company strives to improve the…
DOJ Seeks to Stop Deere from Purchasing Monsanto’s Precision Planting Division
…plant crops accurately at higher speeds. The acquisition would deny farmers throughout the country the benefits of competition that has spurred innovation, improved quality and lowered prices. The department filed…
USDA Sharply Revises Farm Income Forecasts
…(-0.9 percent), corn (-0.1 percent), soybeans and peanuts (-1.0 percent), and other field crops (2.8 percent) are expected to perform moderately well, while NCFI for specialty crop farm businesses (fruits,…
Agri View: Dangerous Work
Everett Griner talks about farm labor among the most dangerous in today’s Agri View. Dangerous Work From the day school is out to the start of the next fall term…
Reseeding A Pasture After A Hot Dry Summer
Pasture owners facing wear and weeds after a hot dry summer should consider the early fall as time to reseed their pasture lands. Rod Bain has the story. A Hot…
Delta Smelt Strategy Shows Promising Results
…in the fall of 2011 and 2012 following larger-than-normal agricultural drainage flows from the Yolo Bypass. These flows produced an unusual plankton bloom in the Rio Vista area of the…
Japan to Resume Importing U.S. Wheat
Earlier this month, Japan halted imports of western white and feed wheat from the pacific coast ports after unapproved genetically modified crops were found in an unplanted field in Washington…
Farm Futures Releases 2017 Planting Intentions
…addition to soybeans, the two other crops that could pull acres away from corn are cotton and sorghum. Plantings for both crops are expected to be around one percent higher…
Agri View: Food Safety
…it is in Norway. It was built in 2008 to hold seed in the event some catastrophe should destroy our crops. What I didn’t know is, this is just one…
Almond Board: State of the Almond Industry
…last harvest with the industry thinking the crop size was going to be lower than the objective estimate and pricing climbed even higher. As we got into fall, the conventional…
Algeria Returns to U.S. Corn
…crops. Among the Council’s coming programs are procurement courses for Algerian buyers of U.S. corn, scheduled to take place in Fargo, North Dakota, this September, and a workshop to continue…