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Just because a farmer has a bin doesn’t mean it should be used. There are reasons to do so during harvest, but those may be put into the production cost category as they relate to the efficiencies of the harvest just to keep the combines rolling. Otherwise, Frayne Olson from North Dakota State University says […]

Nine NCSU research projects awarded funding RALEIGH – Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced today that nine research projects that focus on helping specialty crop growers manage disease and adverse weather conditions, and that look at new plant varieties that could grow better in the state were awarded over $1.16 million in specialty crop block grant […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Market is closely following the ProFarmer crop tour going across the Midwest this week. At the time of this recording, we have gotten the tour yield for Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, South Dakota and Ohio. Thursday at 8pm, […]

 The corn and soybean crops in Illinois are as advertised, according to Pro Farmer Scouts on Day Three of Crop Tour. “Corn yields were a little more variable probably than a lot of the routes saw, but I’d expect that, given the real estate that we were looking at. We still had a top-end yield of […]

Roy Lee Lindsay is the CEO of the North Carolina Pork Council, representing growers in the nation’s third largest pork producing state. He says the biggest challenge facing producers today is input costs. “Everything from feed to labor to utilities to transportation, insurance, simply everything that goes into the cost of producing food. It has […]

After estimates of a near-record crop in Ohio for a second year and a lot of potential in South Dakota on Monday, the Pro Farmer Crop Tour scouts found even better results in Nebraska and Indiana on Tuesday. “The soybeans looked good. Even the shorter beans were loaded, and all these beans were setting pods. I […]

Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root growth. They also improve soil moisture, remove fungal spores and stimulate microbial activity, which benefits plant health. But there’s another weird worm out there […]

Climate-Smart Commodities Program dispersed over $850K in financial incentives to farmers ORANGEBURG, SC – SC State University Public Service & Agriculture (SC State PSA) commemorated its one-year partnership with Climate-Smart Grown in SC, a climate-smart commodities partnership with Clemson University, during a celebratory event for enrolled SC State University farmers on Thursday, July 25, at Camp […]

Many vital provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are due to end at the close of next year.  American Farm Bureau Federation president Zippy Duvall says Congress must not lose sight of protecting those provisions. “Our family farms are already burdened by inflation, increased supply costs, and much, much more. These new […]

The results from the first day of Pro-Farmer’s annual Midwest Crop Tour are lower than last year.  About a thousand scouts headed out into Midwestern corn and soybean fields on Monday to objectively determine the final projections. “What we saw was very good. We had nine stops in Ohio, with an average yield of 193.7. […]