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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 […]

It was a story of TOO MUCH of a good thing in certain areas as Tropical Storm Idalia passed through the Carolinas last week. SFN’s Mike Davis gets the details from climatologist Corey Davis. We needed the rain but maybe not so much in certain areas. What happened? Yeah, Mike, we talked last week about […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets were closed Monday for the Labor Day holiday so all weekly reports were delayed by a day this week. We continue to see low volume range bound trade as the market watches the finish to the […]

Hearings on the Federal Milk Marketing Order which began last month are expected to continue through the end of this month. Dr. Roger Cryan, chief economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says his organization is heavily involved in the process. “This is the first hearing where AFBF has really taken a leading role on […]

If you are a farmer or forest land owner and you feel that USDA had discriminated against you in its foreign programs, and that the discrimination happened before January 1 of 2021, you may be eligible for financial assistance through a program called Section 22007. A USDA program created last year by the inflation Reduction […]

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio impacted by a train derailment get DNA testing, rural communities have a second chance for wildfire protection money, and North Carolina’s “Road to Nowhere” is popular with curious tourists.

The first thing that comes to mind when you think of pollinator habitat is a flower bed, fruit or tree orchard. A quarter wheat field wildflowers along the side of the road of flowering Bush a lot of turf grass. There are some turf seeds that produce seed heads where dispersal or movement either through […]