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The Florida Cattle Enhancement Board has provided an opportunity to highlight a difficult subject in farming through a podcast series. We caught up with Marshal Sewell with the Mind Your Melon Foundation to learn more. Sewell said, “We have got a really cool opportunity to get to work with the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and the Florida Cattlemen’s Association to continue …
The American Soybean Association is calling for the Trump Administration to prioritize soybean exports in upcoming trade talks with China. The ASA called for these additional purchases of soybeans in a letter to the White House with the additional request of removing the remaining 10% retaliatory tariff on U.S. imports into China. ASA President Scott Metzger said, “Farmers continue to …
A group of agricultural organizations is asking for more help in the agricultural area as planting season begins in earnest all across America. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent fuel and fertilizer prices skyrocketing and farmers are bothered being strained in a foreign farm economy that already had its back against the wall due to record inflation, trade uncertainty, rapidly declining …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture have announced a new competitive grant to allow the department to quickly address diseases and pests like the New World Screwworm. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X, “Emerging pests and diseases such as NWS can quickly devastate American agriculture if we are not prepared. These pests and …
Some major media outlets have reported that the labor strike at the greedy Colorado beef plant is going to reduce the amount of meat available to consumers. Bottom Line analysts say that’s simply not true. The strike at the plant, entering its fifth day now today, it is by the way the first strike at a U.S. meat packing facility in some 40 …
International trade played a powerful role in shaping agriculture in early America. Long before the United States became a global agricultural powerhouse, colonial farmers and traders were already responding to international markets. In the early 1700s, demand from Europe for both natural resources and food helped drive economic growth across several regions of the American colonies. From the booming fur …
With rising costs of production, it’s critical for growers to get the most out of every single acre. Valley Irrigation has some solutions for growers to consider and we sat down with Nicholas Scates with Valley Irrigation to learn more. Scates said, “As you know, many farms, both big and small, have irregularly shaped or smaller fields that traditional pivots haven’t …
The SLE Rodeo is coming soon to Montgomery Alabama and we caught up with Josie Jones with the SLE to get more details. Jones said, “the SLE rodeo is coming soon to Montgomery, Alabama and we caught up with Josie Jones with the SLE to get more details. We are super excited for the SLE rodeo here in 2026. It’s going to …
Mark your calendar from March the 28th from 9 until Midnight almost and Blakely, Georgia. It’s the Peanut Proud Festival. Everyone’s invited to attend a parade lots of entertainment and lots of fun. We’ve been working on the 2.0 farm bill good news. In addition the bill includes important provisions Related to international and emergency food assistance that will be utilizing peanuts and peanut …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the Beef and Pork production and pricing outlook for March. World Agricultural Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski explains, “Beef production, we lowered down to 25.8 billion pounds and this reduction is just based on recent slaughter data, seeing a little bit of a slowdown in the rate of slaughter, which isn’t too surprising given the …
