The rise in urban farming continues to create opportunity for many across the nation and specifically in our state, and we all get to reap the harvest. I’m talking to Carolyn Rose-Seed. She is the president of the South Durham Farmers Market and owner of Mama Springs Farm in Durham. Can you tell us about […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets have been trading in narrow ranges on very low volume waiting for USDA’s latest supply and demand update coming out today, Tuesday Sept 12th at noon. We have been watching all the private estimates released over […]

Shanteya Hudson Rural areas in North Carolina have long been grappling with limited access to services, from health care to internet access, and a unique nonprofit group is taking on these challenges and others, with young people at the helm. Called “A Better Chance, A Better Community,” the organization in Halifax County is nicknamed “ABC-2.” […]

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is meeting in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Commissioner Weathers is there. NASDA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit association that represents the elected and appointed commissioners, secretaries, and directors of the departments of agriculture in all 50 states and four U.S. territories.  NASDA meetings are a great opportunity to interact […]

After a record high income year in 2022, farmers this year will see profits declining. USDA is out with its new income forecasts. And here’s an example. Net cash farm income is forecast to fall to about 149 billion. That’s about a 27% drop from 2022. USDA economist Carrie Litkowski says that declines due to […]

Wheat harvest is going on around the world. Kim Anderson, a grain market economist with Oklahoma State University, talks about harvest progress. “We’ve got about a 29.2-billion-bushel world crop being harvested and 1.73 billion here in the United States. We’ve harvested about 80 percent of that world wheat crop and the majority of the U.S. […]

A recent report analyzing the immediate future of Canadian farm operations is ringing some alarm bells. The report, co-authored by the Arrell Agrifood Institute at the University of Guelph in conjunction with the Royal Bank of Canada, says that more than 40 percent of farm owner-operators will retire over the next decade. The report states […]

With the 2023 harvest approaching, if not here already for some, next year’s crop is likely also on the minds of U.S. farmers. Jacquie Holland is a grain market analyst with Farm Futures and says the acreage battle between corn and soybeans might not be as intense next spring. “Our farmers indicated that maybe it’s […]

The DEKALB, Asgrow and Deltapine seed brands are offering harvest emails again this season, enabling farmers to receive local harvest data delivered automatically to their email inbox, says technical agronomist Scott Stanislav. “Growers have a lot of choice when it comes to products that they could potentially purchase to plant in their given area, and […]

Building on a robust first half of 2023, July pork exports continue to outpace 2022 levels. USDA data showed July pork exports at 219,000 metric tons, up five percent from last year, while export value rose one percent to $628.7 million. Exports to the top market, Mexico, continued at a record pace. Through the first […]