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Brooke Rollins is scheduled to get her day before the Senate Ag Committee on Thursday as she prepares to be confirmed as President Trump’s secretary of Agriculture. Ray Starling is the general counsel for the North Carolina Chamber, and served as chief of staff to Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue under the previous Trump administration, and […]

South Carolina recently announced its new class of 2025 SC Chef Ambassadors and Ag Commissioner Hugh Weathers is here to tell us more about them and the program. Commissioner:

The North American beef cattle herd size is at a 40-year low, after several years of drought and feed shortages in primary cattle regions have taken a heavy toll on cow and heifer numbers. While cattle producers are seeing record-high prices, the beef processing sector is struggling. An official with the Canadian Cattle Association says […]

Where is the farmland market headed early in the new year? Dr. Bruce Sherrick, a professor of farmland economics at the University of Illinois, says a lot of people are interested in that information. “It’s something that everybody’s fascinated by right now because we came out of a period for the last three years with […]

The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ Agricultural Review newspaper marks its 100th volume in 2025 – a great milestone for the humble paper that has been listing farm items for sale since its beginning.  

Is Social Security going broke? That’s one of several myths out there about Social Security. Sean Voskuhl, AARP State Director in Oklahoma, says nothing could be further from the truth. “Social Security will not run out of money, as long as workers and employers continue to pay payroll taxes. It’s a pay-as-you-go system, but it […]

BOSTON (AP) — Heavy snow is expected to blanket large portions of the Eastern U.S. while much of the country will endure dangerously cold temperatures in the coming days. Winter storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service are already in effect for parts of the Mid-Atlantic and will begin Sunday afternoon in New England. Up to a half-foot of snow is expected in areas from Maryland to Maine. That will be followed a blast of frigid air forecasted for the Rockies and Northern Plains into New England. The Gulf Coast and Southeast could see an unusual wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain starting Monday in Texas.

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn and soybeans were able to find follow through strength for most of the week until Thursday. On Thursday, weakness in the soybeans was a drag on everything. There has not been a noticeable shift in the […]

The big weather item on most people’s minds is still the snow that we had last weekend, and it had been a long time in coming. Let’s get some details from Corey Davis, Assistant State Climatologist for North Carolina. And wow, it had been, what, almost what, 1100, 1200 days, or some, some crazy number […]

In January, usually the busiest of months on the USDA report calendar as associated with the first crop production report day of the year. Only the focus is traditionally not on the monthly crop production forecast, but on a series of reports, including the annual year-end look at fall harvested crop production. “We’ll start off […]