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Let’s go back 135 years, May 31, 1889. Fourteen miles upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the South Fork dam fails, sending 20 million tons of water crashing through Johnstown. “Twenty-two hundred people perished.” That’s James Demby. He’s the National Dam Safety Coordinator for the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS for short. He […]

For the second straight year, North Carolina’s agriculture and agribusiness industry has recorded strong growth, jumping to $111.1 billion in economic impact. Agriculture continues to power our state’s economy.    

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Soybeans opened the week Sunday night under additional selling pressure. Last week there were rumors of Chinese purchases that brought some buying into the soy complex that turned to selling after the purchases failed to materialize. Then the […]

Pesticide applicators would not have to get additional permits under one of the few farm bill amendments the House Ag committee recently approved. The amendment approved by voice vote would reverse 2009 and 2021 court decisions and restore decades of precedent in pesticide permitting. Amendment sponsor, North Carolina Republican David Rouzer: “Some pesticide applicators are […]

A group of undergraduate students studying agricultural economics took a trip to Brazil. Joanna Colussi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois and a Brazil native, and says she saw catastrophic flooding during a tour of Rio Grande do Sul. “It is a very sad situation in my home state, Rio Grande […]

Earlier in May, the USDA put out its first balance sheets looking at 2024-2025 supply and demand. Ben Brown is an agricultural economist with the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. Brown talks about the corn side of the balance sheets. “On the corn side, I think that as a producer of […]

We’re here at the tail end of the month of May. It’s a good chance to take a look at some precipitation levels and also the temperatures where we stand right now. And Corey Davis, Assistant State Climatologist for North Carolina, joins me now to take a look at that and what a flip May […]

The Livestock Conservancy is a non-profit membership organization whose mission is to protect livestock and poultry breeds from extinction. Dr. Charlene Couch, senior project manager for The Livestock Conservancy, talks about the importance of preserving the legacy of livestock. “Our mission is to prevent the extinction of endangered breeds of livestock and poultry, especially those […]

Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas, the top Republican on the Senate Ag Committee, traveled to Oklahoma for a farm bill listening session. Boozman says the suggestions from Oklahoma producers were similar to other farmers around the country. “Each state is a little bit different. On the other hand, it is amazing being with farmers all […]

It took approximately 13 hours, but the House Agriculture Committee sent their version of the farm bill from Committee Chair GT Thompson to the full House for a vote. Joe Gilson, director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau, says it was quite a process to get the bill out of committee. “Last week, […]