Imagine a large tabletop filled with a model-scale display of buildings, trucks, roads, homes, a processing plant, and pigs. This model serves a purpose in foreign animal disease, or FAD, preparation through tabletop exercises. Jesse Heimer, a show pig producer from Missouri, participated in a recent exercise. ”We were able to see the direct cause […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540.

The N.C. State Fair continues its commitment to highlighting North Carolina agriculture through its Farm Family of the Day program presented by Tractor Supply Company. Eleven farm families will be recognized at the State Fair, highlighting their farm and the pride they have in farming.

The SC Department of Agriculture uses federal funding to help producers offset certain costs of growing their business. Commissioner Hugh Weathers is here to tell us about these Cost Share Grants and how to apply. Yes, Mike, this is funding that we offer through the USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. We like to incentivize […]

Ontario’s winter wheat harvest is finally wrapping up. Farmers in Southwestern and southern central Ontario have struggled to finish a wheat harvest interrupted by a series of heavy rains, thunderstorms, and even some tornadoes. But despite a wet July, indications are that Ontario’s record wheat acreage came off at good to excellent, with some areas […]

Farmers could quickly lose important tools to deal with pests unless the EPA acts soon. David Geiger reports. To see more, the new Herbicide Draft Strategy is available for viewing and public comment on the EPA website.

As lawmakers work to write the next farm bill, the American Farm Bureau Federation is sharing stories of its importance to agriculture. Chad Smith has more with an example from a Missouri farm. As ongoing drought grips much of the west and Midwest, farmers and ranchers are utilizing farm bill programs to ensure they’re acting […]

Research is underway on genetic selection of chicken to produce traits that lead to poultry with greater water use efficiency. Rod Bain reports.

A new group of US representatives is working to bridge the labor gap in agriculture, but they have a lot of work ahead of them. North Carolina Democrat Congressman Don Davis is a co-chair of the new Ag Labor Working Group, and he says across the labor spectrum, there are plenty of jobs to go […]

The recent growing season resulted in a record amount of corn and soybeans in South America. Dr. Michael Cordonnier, agronomist with Soybean and Corn Advisor, Inc., says the problem is the prices have dropped 30-40 percent since January. “The guys who did not forward contract some of their corn production are losing money because now […]