A farm wife from central Nebraska puts into perspective the help that’s coming to areas affected by the wildfires that continue. She did some math and says that a loaded semi can carry about 28 tons of hay, mostly alfalfa, and at today’s market prices that equals about $2,500 donation for each semi. Officials are trying to keep track of a count of how …
Settlement and the Promise of Kansas Farmland Early agriculture in the state of Kansas was not always successful. When Kansas was opened to settlement in 1854, waves of settlers began moving into the region, drawn by the promise of fertile land on the vast prairie. Farmers arriving in the territory often brought seeds with them from the eastern United States …
The Alabama Cattlemen’s Association is encouraging young culinarians through an upcoming cookoff event. We caught up with Erin Beasley with the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association to learn more. “Well, it’s a cook-off that the ACA and Alabama Cattlewomen’s Association are well known for and that is our junior and senior high school beef cook-off. We’ve been doing this event since the 60s and …
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association recently held a new director orientation for state checkoff directors and Dr. Chad Carr with the University of Florida, who serves on the Florida Beef Council Board of Directors, shared his insights from the training. Dr. Carr said, “The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, they put on an orientation for new state board members and state staff …
The Georgia Beef Board is promoting beef through a new recipe video collaboration with the Dairy Alliance. We caught up with Wyatt Doolittle with the Georgia Beef Board to learn more. Doolittle said, “We’ve been working on something really exciting behind the scenes with our partners over at the Dairy Alliance. So we’ve been filming a new series of recipe videos …
A bill to provide transparency for fertilizer prices has been introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and by Senators Klobuchar, Grassley and Baldwin. The “Fertilizer Transparency Act of 2026” would provide farmers with timely and accurate information on fertilizer and fertilizer products by requiring USDA to collect and publish data on prices from manufacturers weekly. …
Well, if you’re planning next weekend, you want to make plans to go to Blakely, Georgia. Blakely will be having the Peanut Proud Festival. They’ve got teams working together from Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The big day is around the Courthouse Square in Blakely starting at 9 a.m. The Peanut Proud store will be open that day. They said they’ll have a …
The 2026 Florida Farm Bill was signed yesterday by Governor Desantis in a ceremony joined by Florida legislators and agriculturists in Highlands county. The Florida Farm Bill, also known as Senate Bill 290, was sponsored by Senator Keith Truenow and Representative Danny Alvarez. Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson said, “The Free State of Florida just delivered another major win …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released their March Cattle on Feed Report and livestock analyst Michael McConnell provides insights on the current cattle market. McConnell said, “According to the NASS cattle on feed report for the month of March, as of March 1st in feedlots with a capacity of over a thousand head, there was 11.55 million cattle in those feedlots, …
Today is National Agriculture Day. Those of us tied to agriculture, food production, or distribution in any way, every day is Agriculture Day. But great that we do set aside one day a year, always in March, to honor and highlight the men and women who have made agriculture, food production, and distribution their careers. Though as someone did say long ago, “if you eat, you’re …
