Here are the weekly livestock market reports for Alabama, Florida, and Georgia for the week ended February 7, 2025, compiled by the Livestock Market News Service for all three states. AL Livestock Market Report: At Alabama Livestock Auctions, for the week ended February 07, 2025, receipts at 16 markets totaled 15,893 head compared to 11,602 last week and 13,856 last …
Week four of the 2025 Georgia State Legislative Session was another busy one, as various bills of interest to agriculture were introduced. Georgia Agribusiness Council (GAC) President Will Bentley looks at those, along with a recap of their annual meeting and legislative breakfast. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most …
Exporting U.S. peanuts is important to the industry, as are exports of most crops grown in our country. And as Tyron Spearman reports, the peanut industry continues to watch the tariff talks with a couple of our largest trading partners. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out …
During the annual Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show this week in San Antonio, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announced their 2025 policy priorities. Rusty Halvorson has the story. Some of NCBA’s 2025 Policy Priorities include: Click here to see NCBA’s full priorities list. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley …
The U.S. ethanol industry saw new records for exports last year. As Mark Oppold reports, those numbers continue to grow. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley 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 …
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson, alongside Senator Keith Truenow and Representative Kaylee Tuck, has introduced legislation aimed at bolstering Florida’s agriculture industry, increasing consumer protections, and enhancing emergency preparedness. The proposed legislation includes measures to protect farmers from discriminatory lending practices based on environmental policies, returning local control over solar farm approvals, and providing tax relief for agricultural businesses. …
I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Ohio was considered the early agricultural capital of the U.S. in the early 1800s as western expansion continued. Many settlers, after the hard trek over the Appalachians, fell in love with the plains of Ohio and industries continued to grow. By 1810, Dayton had a tobacco processing plant. Cincinnati was known …
(NCBA/SAN ANTONIO, Texas/Feb. 6, 2025) — The popular CattleFax Outlook Seminar, held as part of CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas, shared expert market and weather analysis today. The U.S. beef industry is poised for another year of strong market performance, driven by tight cattle supplies and robust consumer demand. As the beef cowherd enters a stabilization phase following years …
There have been some recent purchases of peanuts by the U.S. Government. Tyron Spearman reports purchases are up twenty percent over the past few months. Sponsored ContentFlorida Cattle Enhancement Board Provided Opportunity To Highlight Difficult Farming SubjectMarch 20, 2026Valley Helps Growers Get The Most Out Of Every AcreMarch 19, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Builds Relationships Between Researchers and Cattle ProducersMarch …
Smithfield Foods CEO Shane Smith expressed optimism about the company’s future as it returned to the public stock market more than a decade after being acquired by China’s WH Group. Smith emphasized the company’s growth outlook while downplaying concerns about potential labor shortages due to mass deportations and the continued impact of bird flu on the meat industry. Smith said …
