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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 […]

You may be familiar with efforts to create greater water efficiency and use it agriculture via management strategies and conservation methods in crops. Some that come to mind include drought tolerant plant varieties and more efficient irrigation methods. Yet water use efficiency is also being studied within the livestock sector. We really need to be […]

COLUMBIA – South Carolina farmers and food processors who want to pursue organic certification may qualify for reimbursement through a grant administered by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture (SCDA) and funded by the US Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency. For some producers, organic certification can help reach new customers and align with existing ones. […]

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

The storms that rolled through the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of North Carolina on Monday night had it all: Lightning, thunder, strong winds that brought down trees and knocked out power…but not much rain. But the South Carolina Upstate got some that has lessened dry conditions there. Climatologist Corey Davis breaks it down with SFN’s […]

A rural Tennessee community has restored limited ER, Washington State’s Quinault Indian Nation is building better broadband, the blockbuster Oppenheimer has renewed conversations around fallout from nuclear testing, and kids return to “reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic.”

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions released a report titled “Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change.” The report analyzes 22 agricultural carbon markets and recommends changes that would help these programs succeed. Farmers also don’t take part because the ag carbon programs do not adequately define what a “new practice” is, and […]