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In the midst of harvest season, while some crops like wheat and rice are nearly completely harvested, others, such as corn and soybeans, will be soon — no matter if your role is a producer driving a combine, a driver hauling grain to the local elevators, or a motorist on country roads surrounded by farmland. […]

The focus today is on how artificial intelligence is being applied to agriculture. This includes developing computer vision and AI platforms to support researchers, breeders and farmers. USDA researcher Steven Mirsky says the goal is to integrate AI technology into a variety of hardware systems used in the field. “A simple little robot that can […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn battled back to close strong on Friday and almost got back to unchanged on the week. Beans were not able to overcome the selling and finished last week down 27 cents. Lack of Chinese purchases of […]

Economic sentiment among producers continued its downward trend in August, with the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer falling for the third consecutive month. Dr. Jim Mintert from Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture, the author of the report, said the index dropped 10 points to a reading of 125, down from 135 in July. “The […]

Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler inducted two longtime North Carolina farmers to the N.C. Mountain State Fair Livestock Hall of Fame over the weekend. The two inductees, longtime dairy goat exhibitor Marjorie Burton and veteran dairy farmer Mike Corn, came during the fair’s opening weekend festivities. The induction was in recognition of their decades of support […]

Agricultural and food industry entrepreneurs, take note: A new center focused on your specific needs is launching at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The Agriculture Business Innovation Center (ABIC) at N.C. A&T aims to help agriculture-related businesses succeed while encouraging innovation and facilitating workforce development training. ABIC kicks off with a free event Tuesday, […]

The soybean market is feeling the pressure as a new marketing year began on September 1. Arlan Suderman, chief commodities economist for StoneX, said the market has noticed the new year began with no sales to China on the books. “Their lead negotiator was in the United States to negotiate last week, and went home […]

States promoting agriculture is common. Among the vessels used are state departments of agriculture and state farm bureaus. And in the case of the Jayhawk State, its state farm bureau offers an avenue for producers to promote and sell their goods and value-added products — as Kylie Stout explains. “When we speak with farmers that […]

The Allendale brokerage firm has released yield results collected from a recent survey of farmers. Rich Nelson of Allendale said they’ve done this survey for a long time. “As far as the accuracy here goes, over on the corn side, in the past fifteen years, we’ve generally been within about two bushels. I want to […]

I have many different species of plants in my landscape. However, I do not own a “Clethra alnifolia” or “sweet pepper bush” or “summersweet”. I bet if I were to ask brother Rufus if he planted one in his historic yard, he would say yes. Clethra is a native plant to Eastern North America including North Carolina of course. My expert friends on the Weekend Gardener tell us that Clethra is a choice shrub for the Tar Heel state’s growing conditions.