…the time being. The Margin Protection Program monthly feed cost calculation dropped steadily from June through August, and the monthly MPP margin rose by more than $3.50 per hundredweight from…
Protecting Sensitive Agricultural Lands
…provides participants with rental payments and cost-share assistance. Landowners enter into contracts that last between 10 and 15 years. “We have seen record demand to participate in this important program,”…
Trade Deal Between Canada and EU Back On
…primarily responsible for holding up the deal. Officials in the Socialist region wanted stronger protections for labor, as well as stronger environmental and consumer standards. The leaders of the different…
River Infrastructure Major Concern for Corn Farmers
…labor income and about $2.4 billion of economic activity (total industry output) annually. Similarly, closing La Grange Lock & Dam could result in a reduction of 5,500 jobs, $900 million…
Agri View: Imported Insects and Diseases
…and insects have cost Florida farmers as much as any other crop we grow. I haven’t even mentioned states like California and Texas. The vast growing region that now grows…
Belgium Region Ignoring Deadline, Leaving Infinite Timeline on CETA
…under pressure.” The region is demanding stronger safeguards on labor, environmental and consumer standards, according to the BBC. Canada’s trade minister returned home last week following last minute negotiations saying…
Agri View: Refrigeration
…would cost if there were no refrigeration service? Or say a Georgia grown watermelon sold in Montana. Refrigerated railroad cars were first build in the 1870’s. They helped make the…
Farm Profits and Adoption of Precision Agriculture
…— Hired labor costs are 60 to 70 percent lower with any of the three PA technologies on small corn farms (140-400 cropland acres), while hired labor costs are higher…
Agri View: Controlling Diseases
…paid out thirty billion dollars to control Foot and Mouth disease. Well now, almost seven years later, sources studying the animal diseases say the pathogens that cause such costly outbreaks…
Funding for Organic Agriculture Research, Education-Extension Projects
…standards to grow and market high quality organic products. Eligible entities include land-grant and other research universities, federal agencies, national laboratories, state agricultural experiment stations and research foundations and other…
Agri View: Say Cheese!
…farmers but twenty millions dollars’ worth. That’s what it will cost. That is only a small bit of relief. The National Milk Producers is asking the purchase be made for…
Succession Plans can Assure Farms Stay in the Family
Exactly how a family farm or ranch will be transferred from one generation to the next can be costly, confusing and difficult. Some families address this challenge as soon as…
Trade Wars Could Cost California 640,000 Jobs
…anti-trade, but the LA Times focuses on the steeper opposition by Trump, estimating the cost of Trump fulfilling his campaign promises against trade if elected. Los Angeles would lose an…
U.S – Mexico Establish Committee to Support Organic Trade Partnership
…allowing organic products certified in one country to be sold as organic in each participating market, they reduce the cost of duplicative certifications, fees and inspections. In the past six…