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A major private sector field crops tour across Ontario has wrapped up its eighth-annual yield assessment for the corn and soybean crops. The tour started in eastern Ontario near the Quebec border on August 14th and wrapped up on August 25 in southwestern Ontario at the Michigan border. Farms.com has released its yield estimates for […]

With misinformation being spread recently questioning the safety and quality of beef products sold in the United States, Marination and Cured Meats Product Manager at JBT FoodTech David Hayden explains the facts, and why it is safe to buy beef at the grocery store and directly from a farmer and rancher. Hayden first talks about […]

If you are holding onto grain to sell before harvest, you may have checked cash bids and got a big surprise. The basis level dropped like a stone. Why is that happening? Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net says when it comes to the basis, we have seen farmers that have held on to old crop grains, […]

Agricultural literacy. No matter how that term is defined, some, like North Carolina A&T State University sustainable agriculture professor Kathleen Liang, note declining rates of ag literacy, especially on the secondary school level in the context of where food comes from and how food is produced. So from that perspective… …focusing on helping young people […]

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen federal agencies and departments have been mobilized across the Biden-Harris Administration to assist state, county, nonprofit and private sector partners to help people in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina jumpstart their recovery after Hurricane Idalia. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell visited Florida on Thursday to assess the damage in the […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The corn and soybean markets drifted lower as we got to first notice day on the September contracts yesterday, Thursday Aug 31st. It has felt like fund positioning ahead of first notice day rather than a new trend […]

The Carolinas largely dodged a bullet when the remnants of Hurricane Idalia sped through the southeast Wednesday and Thursday. Mike Davis talks with NC Assistant State Climatologist Corey Davis about the impact. Well, Mike, you know, when we talked last week, it wasn’t even a named storm. It actually wasn’t even a tropical depression yet. […]

The remnants of Hurricane Idalia came and went in a hurry through South then North Carolina Wednesday into Thursday morning, and for the most part may have done more good than harm. Bayer technical agronomist Zach Webb has been surveying and says Marion County, South Carolina may have taken the brunt of it. Marion County […]

Millions of Americans are navigating a post-pandemic Medicaid purge, rural “news deserts” turn to nonprofits for local coverage in response to hedge-fund buyouts, and the Cornhusker State is preserving the stories of Nebraskans who trekked to one-room school houses in days gone by.

The phrase “couch potato” describes a person who spends little or no time exercising and a great deal of time watching TV. We’ve all heard that, but Potatoes USA also feels it gives potatoes a bad rap. Despite research that shows potatoes are chock full of nutrients and an asset to a healthy lifestyle, Potatoes […]