TOP AG NEWS
U.S.-EU Dispute Threatens Artery of World Trade
The trade wars threatening to push the global economy into recession are entering a new phase, with the United States…
Spring Forward, Fall Back
Jason Webster, commercial agronomist for Precision Planting, used the analogy during a recent field day at the company’s Precision Technology…
Feedback From The Field-Oct. 7, 2019
How are your crops faring this year? What are your hopes for yields? We’re asking growers about what’s really happening…
Amid Trade War, Farmers Lean on a New Crop-Hemp
Surrounded by waist-high hemp plants, Andy Huston, a sixth-generation farmer in Illinois, stopped to admire one of the ridged green leaves.…
EPA, USDA Announce Agreement on Promoting Biofuels
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue issued the following…
Lawmakers Ask USDA to Study Effects of Small-Refinery Waivers
In what appear to be the final hours leading up to the release of a long-awaited biofuels proposal from President…
USDA Invests $11M In Research That Will Support Specialty Crop Farmers
U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced today that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)…
Examining USDA 2019 Acreage and Yield Estimates
2019 has been a turbulent year. Unprecedented rains during spring, which led to heavy flooding and disrupted corn planting in…
Digital Network Established for Carbon Payments to Farmers
Farmers who want to be paid for sequestering carbon now have a company that can connect them to carbon buyers.…
Biofuels Blending Agreement at Hand
Bloomberg writers Jennifer A Dlouhy, Mario Parker, and Jennifer Jacobs reported yesterday that, “The Trump administration has agreed to a new…