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USDA lowered new crop yields for corn and soybeans in the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand report. The average corn yield was revised down 1.3 bushels to 173.8 bushels per acre, and soybeans down 0.8 bushels to 50.1 bushels per acre. However, American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Betty Resnick says that didn’t lower corn […]

Corn production is up, while soybean and cotton production is down from 2022, according to USDA’s Crop Production report. Corn production is up ten percent from last year, forecast at 15.1 billion bushels. Soybean growers are expected to decrease their production three percent from 2022, forecast at 4.15 billion bushels. Cotton production is down nine […]

Deltapine’s ThryvOn Technology has been gaining a foothold in the southeast with cotton growers. And Deltapine technical agronomist Zack Webb has been telling us for some time how it’s been making believers out of skeptics. At a recent Bayer Field Day I asked him for an update. Well, you know, we just came out of […]

National Farmers Union President Rob Larew says that it is clear the 2023 Farm Bill will not be ready before the September 30 deadline, and it could be a while before it is in place due to it being a presidential year next year. He stresses that the next farm bill needs to be the […]

Salmonella in poultry. This pathogen is a leading cause of foodborne illness. Salmonella bacteria cause an estimated 1.35 million infections in the US each year not only foodborne but across numerous products and other contexts. The most recent report from the interagency food safety analytics collaboration estimates that over 23% of foodborne salmonella illnesses are […]

USDA is celebrating a special birthday for a special and long-running USDA report this week. September 7 1973. USDA outlaw Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski says that was when the USDA’s World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates report, the WASDE, was first released to the public, and he says it’s been pretty much monthly happening ever […]

After falling for two straight weeks, the nation’s average price of gasoline increased, rising 1.6 cents from a week ago to $3.79 per gallon. The national average is down 3.0 cents from a month ago but 11.4 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The national average diesel price fell 0.9 cents last week […]

Total cash labor expenses for the U.S. agriculture sector are forecast to be $43.35 billion for 2023, based on new data from USDA’s Economic Research Service. This would be an increase of $0.78 billion, or 1.8 percent, over the 2022 level of $42.57 billion in inflation-adjusted 2023 dollars. The projected 2023 level would remain below […]

New funding announced on Monday from the Department of Agriculture will help dairy producers affected by natural disasters. The Milk Loss Program administered by the Farm Service Agency will compensate eligible dairy farms and processors for milk dumped due to qualifying disaster events from 2020 to 2022. Eligible disasters include droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, floods, derechos, […]

FLETCHER – Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler inducted two couples into the N.C. Mountain State Fair Livestock Hall of Fame during the fair’s opening weekend. Troxler recognized Buddy and Janice Cochran of Waynesville and Tim and Sonia Worley of Leicester for their longtime support to the fair and the livestock industry in Western North Carolina. “These […]