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Speakers Announced for GCC Mid-Year Meeting

Clint Thompson Georgia Cotton Commission (GCC)

The Georgia Cotton Commission has announced guest speakers for the commission’s mid-year meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at the Nesmith-Lane Conference Center in Statesboro. This year’s speakers will be Akiko Inui, Board Chair of the Cotton Board, and Tas Smith, Vice President of Producer Affairs for the National Cotton Council. During the lunch program the Georgia Quality Cotton Awards …

National Western Stock Show

American Agriculture History Minute: National Western Stock Show Beginning

Dan American Agriculture History Minute, Beef, Cattle, Equine, Livestock, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. The National Western Stock Show in Denver began in 1906. The horse show now among the largest in the world, more than 18,000 entries. National Western Rodeo, considered one of the largest indoor rodeos and has won honors from the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and additionally Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame …

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Livestock Market Reports for Week Ended 05-09-2025

Dan Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Florida, Georgia

Here are the weekly livestock market reports for Alabama, Florida, and Georgia for the week ended May 9, 2025, compiled by the Livestock Market News Service for all three states. AL Livestock Market Report: At Alabama Livestock Auctions, for the week ended May 9, 2025, receipts at 16 markets totaled 10,010 head compared to 10,746 last week and 9,509 last …

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Foreign Ag Service Report Highlights Peanut Exports

Dale Sandlin Export/Import, Peanuts

The Foreign Ag Service report is highlighting peanut exports and Tyron Spearman reviews the findings. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026

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Livestock Industry Reaction to US/UK Trade Agreement

Dale Sandlin Industry, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), Trade, U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)

The livestock industry is reacting to the trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom reached last week. NCBA Executive Director for Government Affairs, Kent Bacus explains the benefits of this trade agreement to the cattle industry. USMEF Dan Halstrom shares the potential for red meat exports to the UK and the other work to be done to …

US/UK Reach Trade Deal Favorable To Farmers

Dale Sandlin Trade

The United States and The United Kindgom have reached a trade deal that provides favorable access to farmers. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick provides details on this agreement. During the Announcement at the Oval Office, US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke on a few key agricultural commodities that will benefit from this agreement. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The …

American Agriculture History

American Agriculture History Minute: Irrigation Key to Great American Desert Farming

Dan Agri-Business, American Agriculture History Minute, Irrigation, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Agriculture in what is now Colorado began taking shape in the early 1850s. Then Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers passed out seeds to make his newspaper “the principal chronicle of early farming in Colorado”. By the 1870s Byers facilitated the colony of Greeley, Colorado’s first major agricultural settlement and …

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USDA Trade Promotion Applications Open

Dale Sandlin Trade, USDA

Tyron Spearman shares the details on the upcoming Trade Promotion Effort by USDA. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, 2026CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2026

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Beginning of Heifer Retention?

Dale Sandlin Beef, Cattle, Marketing

Oklahoma State Economist Dr. Derrell Peel highlights the key indicators that may show the beginning of heifer retention. Mark Oppold explores this possibility. Sponsored ContentValley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch 13, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Helps to Support Forage Development and Management PracticesMarch 6, …

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Secretary Rollins Announces Expedited Disaster Relief Funds

Dale Sandlin USDA

US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced that the department will be Expediting Disaster relief funds. Secretary Rollins touted the USDA’s recent rollout of the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) which a USDA press release calls the “quickest, most effective rollout of emergency payments in the history of the program.”  So far, over 450,000 farmers across 49 states have …