The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) testified before the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, urging for strong comprehensive trade action under Section 301. Jenna Stanton, USCA Director of Policy and Public Affairs, expressed support of additional tariffs on Brazilian bovine products. Stanton said, “Brazil’s cattle sector enjoys an unfair advantage that no U.S. rancher can, or would ever want …
Checking on the peanut crops across Alabama and Florida today. Alabama said they still have some planting to do this late. Additions are being replanted areas as well. It’s been extremely dry, they said for the past and hot the past week. We have been making some delayed fungicide and herbicide applications. Water demand is increasing, they said and hoping …
Tomorrow’s monthly crop report could be pushed aside by changing weather forecasts. The July report historically can be a non-factor, always squeezed between the quarterly stocks and final acreage numbers that come at the end of June, and the August report that for the first time is based on actual field surveys and not computer models. That report, by the …
Early Midwest Farms Evolved Beyond Survival As settlers established permanent farms across the American Midwest during the 1850s and 1860s, their priorities shifted from simply surviving on the frontier to building prosperous, long-lasting agricultural operations. According to Mark Oppold’s American Agriculture History Minute, once a farm became firmly established, many farm families invested in constructing newer and larger homes that …
As hurricane season progresses, UF/IFAS Extension and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are encouraging Florida growers to take steps now to prepare their operations before a storm is in the forecast. While the Atlantic hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through Nov. 30, the most active part of the season historically occurs from mid-August through October. Preparing ahead of …
A Simple Conversation Sparked One of America’s Greatest Agricultural Innovations Innovation has always played a vital role in American agriculture, and few inventions transformed farming more dramatically than the cotton gin. What began as a simple conversation between a struggling farmer and a mechanically gifted college student ultimately changed the course of American agriculture forever. According to Mark Oppold’s American …
The National Ag Statistics Service, the USDA, says the U.S. peanut crop condition is 1% very poor, 6% poor, 34 fair, 54 good, and 5 excellent as we get to July the 7th. Checking on the states, Georgia is showing 62% of their crop is pegging down. That’s the five-year average at 63. They said the peanut crop has improved …
The Trump administration’s efforts to expand agricultural exports and reduce the nation’s agricultural trade deficit are beginning to show measurable results, according to USDA Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Under Secretary Luke Lindberg. In an interview with Southeast AgNet, Lindberg said the administration inherited a projected $50 billion agricultural trade deficit but has already seen significant improvement. “We’re forecasting about …
We caught up with Erin Beasley of the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association (ACA) to hear more about their upcoming meetings. “Well, we want our membership to know that we’ve got another set of summer regional meetings that will be taking place this month. We have July the 9th, that will be our Black Belt regional meeting right there in Valley Grand, …
The American Farmland Trust’s Beef Grazing Network is launching a redesigned Beef Producer Economic Resilience Initiative, in part with the USDA’s Advancing Markets for Producers Program. The $42 million project will support 700 beef producers from the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Texas. These funds are aimed at making producers’ operations more profitable and resilient, through sustainable grazing systems. Dr. Richard Watson, …
