Ag Lenders Helping Producers Restructure Debt during Challenging Prices A new poll of senior leaders from Midwest Farm Credit lenders by AgriBank shows commodity prices are the greatest challenge facing…
Farming Game Reflects Real-life
…Game® The game’s objective is to raise money by harvesting crops and selling livestock, including hay, fruit, grain, and cattle. This is done by moving around the board using one…
Agri View: Farmers Benefit from Oil Prices
…prices will most negatively impact the economies of those commodity exporting countries least equipped to absorb them. The reality for producers With most industry analysts in agreement that oil prices…
Electronic Bug Trap Reduces Labor
…of several pests that are of concern to California producers. “There are around ten species currently that we support today and an individual trap will just monitor one pest at…
Mexican Ethanol Producers Set Sights on Sorghum
Ethanol producers from Mexico are considering the use of sorghum for production of the biobased fuel. The U.S. Grains Council recently hosted a trade team of Mexican ethanol producers in…
Lawmakers Call for Dairy Program Sign up Extension
…to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, the group of lawmakers say an extension of the deadline to December 31st “should be made permanent to give producers additional time to make informed…
Strawberry Tool Tells Producers When to Treat
There’s a new online strawberry tool developed by researchers in Florida and it can save California producers both time and money. Most of us know what strawberry production means to…
GOP Platform Touches on Ag Issues
…buying and selling of livestock and poultry – the so-called GIPSA Rule – from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. The platform calls the U.S….
National Tequila Day
…was known as mezcal wine about the time the conquistadors came to the continent. Many names we recognize on the labels today were the very first commercial producers of tequila….
Agri View: Lost Land
…of public land, environment, natural resource and Native American law at the University of Wyoming, is the author of “The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve…
Lessons from Six California Soil Care Farmers
…preservation, and compost applications. Water Infiltration Demonstration John Teixeira is a diversified farmer in Firebaugh working to develop integrated crop and livestock systems that are not reliant on external inputs….
Adapting Drone Technology for California Ag
…to make the flying tools more valuable to the state’s producers. Adapting Drone Technology for California Ag Variable Rate Technology All Drone Solutions Owner Mark Hull says most drone use…
Legislation Help for Dairy Farmers
NMPF Supports Senate Legislation to Create Tax Incentive for Investments in Biogas and Nutrient Recovery The National Milk Producers Federation endorsed new Senate legislation that would help dairy farmers increase…
SGMA Timelines Necessary for Ag
Environmental groups are wanting to speed up SGMA timelines. Agriculture leaders say that time is needed for producers to plan. SGMA Timelines Necessary for Ag Agriculture Needs Time The Sustainable…