Top Agriculture News

Planning for your legacy can be a difficult mental exercise especially for a farmer or rancher, but it’s absolutely necessary. Alan Trask is an attorney with Ward and Smith and heads up their agriculture law team in Wilmington, North Carolina. He suggests a few steps starting with asking clients how they’re positioned to enjoy their […]

Crop insurers gathered this week for the industry’s annual convention in Arizona, where they committed to building on the success of crop insurance to strengthen the farm safety net. Scott Arnold is the chair of National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) and chairman of Rain and Hail, the largest crop insurance provider in the United States. […]

The popular CattleFax Outlook Seminar, held as part of the 2024 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Orlando, Florida, shared expert market and weather analysis today. The smallest beef cow inventory in the last 50 years, coupled with historically strong demand, led to the highest average fed cattle and calf prices in 2023. […]

Bill Northey, a long-time agriculture industry figure and former USDA official in the Trump administration, has died. The 64-year-old was serving as the CEO of the Agribusiness Association of Iowa. Northey grew up on an Iowa family farm. He served as president of the National Corn Growers Association, three terms as the Iowa agriculture secretary, […]

Ag Development Forum, NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh, February 1, 2024 Challenges facing agriculture and agribusiness Community colleges have the unique ability to quickly customize programs and training for industry needs.  Agriculture in practice involves a great deal of specialized technology.  Agriculture is our state’s largest industry and community colleges can adapt their very successful customized […]

Applications are open for the ACRE Advanced program. Tell us about it, Commissioner. Yes, Mike. SCDA founded the Agribusiness Center for Research and Entrepreneurship (ACRE) in 2018 to help identify and nurture new ideas and agribusinesses in South Carolina. A cornerstone of ACRE is the Advanced Entrepreneurship program, in which we seek entrepreneurs to push […]

America’s soy complex exports added $39.8 billion to the U.S. economy in marketing year 2022-2023 on a volume of 67.6 million metric tons. The shining star was U.S. soybean meal exports broke records for both volume and value at 13.2 million metric tons and $6.91 billion, respectively. Increased demand from both Colombia and Ecuador boosted […]

Grain markets are in a lull driven by supply, according to Bryan Doherty of Total Farm Marketing. “That’s what you have when you have a bigger supply year and you’ve got low prices and the money flow continues to sell rallies, we haven’t seen any change in that. There’s not enough weather in the southern […]

Potato LEAF, or the Potato Industry Leadership Education Advancement Foundation, has a leadership training opportunity with historical roots. Mike Wenkel, National Potato Council VP in charge of PLEAF, says it’s a new program for tomorrow’s leaders. “As we looked at a variety of options, we landed on what we’re calling, “Leadership in the Field.” And […]

Welcome to Groundhog Day! Welcome to Groundhog Day! I’m Mike Davis and I’m joined by climatologist Corey Davis. Let’s take a look back at January. We don’t have the full complete numbers now, but I think we’ve got enough that you could say overall, a fairly warm, record warm January? Well, Mike, we’re still waiting […]