While all of the agriculture industry waits to see who the Trump administration will get confirmed in the major positions and how trade will be approached, in late December, the United States scored a decisive victory in its dispute...
Numbers tell a story but maybe not the whole story. In July and August 2024, Auburn University’s Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology held 11 focus groups in Alabama with 115 farmers, agribusiness owners, employees, processors, manufacturers and...
Let me cut to the chase. Things will get better. At least that is the word from Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy economists Joe Outlaw and Bart Fischer, on efforts to try and stay positive while waiting...
This is not an easy column to write and won’t be easy to read, either. I could have passed on this topic, but would that have been the right thing to do? I was so strongly moved by it...
Kicking the can down the road might have been fun as a kid, but for farmers looking for some semblance of stability, Congress kicking the Farm Bill down the road is pretty much the opposite. After all, there was...
Severe weather affects all parts of farm country, but it was the 2020 derecho that swept across the Corn Belt which prompted a team of researchers to look specifically at grain bins.
Led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln research engineer Christine...
Farm meetings and short courses dot the calendar all around the Southeast December through March. Looking ahead to pests and diseases farmers will face is one thing but trying to determine what the economy and markets will do is...
Given time and investment, many of the world’s biggest problems can be solved through agricultural research. One such issue is the prolific use of synthetic, nonbiodegradable plastics that are dumped on the world daily. Scientists are currently working to...
The benefits of cover crops are well known. However, few Mississippi growers use cover crops in corn because of nominal monetary return and the challenges it presents, says Erick Larson, Mississippi State University Extension agronomist.
Corn is the first crop...
Perdue University’s Center for Commercial Agriculture conducts a monthly survey on farmer sentiment called the Ag Economy Barometer. The most recent poll is rife with producer concerns going into the season.
“Rising farm input costs and ongoing supply chain disruptions...
Elon Musk says you should constantly think about how to do things better. That's a timely mantra given the record fertilizer prices going into 2022.
How can crop fertility be done better? That brings me to current research at the...
Standing in front of corn well over his head, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences best management practices outreach coordinator Joel Love talks about BMPs in corn as part of the North Florida Research and Education...
The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture has demonstrated water management practices on cooperator farms for five years. The Arkansas irrigation yield contest tests the knowledge and ability of growers to produce the “Most Crop Per Drop.”
Together, these efforts...
To reach producers with news and information, the Texas Corn Producers Association has produced a series of “Corn Conversations.” The fourth installment posted recently to its website is a look at driving demand for corn in the U.S. red...
Savannah, Georgia, is one of my favorite places to visit. Besides the city’s storied history and picturesque riverfront, the Savannah port has quietly become one of the largest on the Eastern Seaboard.
According to the Georgia Ports Authority, Savannah now...
