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U.S. Research Shows Promise in Race to Create Effective ASF Vaccine
In a recently published research paper, a team of USDA researchers at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center reported new-found…
UC Davis Releases 5 New Wine Grape Varieties
or the first time since the 1980s, University of California, Davis, researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. The…
Frustration From the Corn Belt Over EPA Biofuel Refinery Waivers
Background Earlier this month, Reuters writers Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw reported that, “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a biofuels company…
Senate Vote on Trade Agreement Likely to Follow Impeachment Trial
A day after voting to impeach President Donald Trump in a partisan vote, the House of Representatives gave the president…
Mapping the Market Facilitation Program-Part 2
Previous analysis of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP) compared the 2018 and 2019 MFP programs, outlining differences in the design…
2020 Outlook-3 Milk Market Factors To Watch
The factors that drive milk prices are often complex. Dairy farmers recently walked through a three-year cycle of low prices,…
2019 Just Won’t Go Away
This year will go down in history as one of the most challenging for Midwest producers. Thanks to a persistent…
African Swine Fever-An “Unprecedented Impact” in the Year of the Pig
News articles continue to point to various market disruptions caused by the ongoing African Swine Fever [ASF] outbreak in Asia and beyond.…
Harvest Share of Planted Acres-Trends and Variability
The difficult 2019 growing season shined a spotlight on issues normally of secondary interest. This article probes one of them: …
Record Year for Hops
Craft beer makers, and drinkers, can celebrate the 2019 hop harvest knowing that there will be plenty of product for…