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Bayer’s Deltapine cotton brand has just released its new varieties for the class of 2025. Eric Best is the Deltpine Product Manager and says this group has shown a lot of promise. “So the class of ’25, we knew we had some strong things coming last year. Class of ’24 we only launched two things, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have unveiled legislation that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters. The stopgap measure will prevent a partial government shutdown set to begin after midnight Friday. It kicks final decisions on this budget year’s spending levels to a new Republican-led Congress and President-elect Donald Trump. Passage of the measure is one of the final must-pass bills that lawmakers will consider this week before adjourning for the holidays and making way for the next Congress.

Estimated impacts to agriculture in 2024 topped $4 billion, including $4.23 billion from Hurricane Helene and $696 million from the summer drought and then heavy rains. A total of 93 counties received either a primary Presidential or Secretarial Disaster Declaration for 2024. Commissioner Troxler and representatives from a dozen commodity groups met recently with the […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. The volume in the grain and oilseed markets has still not recovered to what we were seeing before Thanksgiving. There is just nothing new to push the markets out of the ranges we have been trading for […]

I hear South Carolina now leads the nation in collard green acreage. Tell me more, Commissioner. Commissioner: In the 2017 Census of Agriculture, we only topped the list for one crop: turnip greens. South Carolina now leads the nation in collard green, turnip green, and Southern pea acreage, according to the 2022 Census of Agriculture. […]

Solar panels are showing up on more farm fields throughout rural America. Kelly Wilfert is the farm management outreach specialist for the University of Wisconsin Extension Service. She says there are a lot of solar panels in Wisconsin, and farmers who might be looking into the topic should do their homework first. “The Solar Energy […]

The holidays truly are the most wonderful time of the year for many, but not if you’re ill. No one wants to miss out on friends, family, and laughter. Adam McNeil is a pharmacist with the University Health Truman Center in Kansas City. He talks about how people can safely gather with others during the […]

A new species might be added to the Endangered Species list, with a threatened designation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a proposal to list the Monarch Butterfly. Shelby Hagenaur, senior director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau, says this designation is a mixed bag for agriculture. “This Fish and Wildlife […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Well after making a big deal for the last few weeks about how the December USDA report was going to be a nonevent and there were not going to be major changes, I had to eat my […]

The rain the past few days, boy, now that has been something we haven’t seen a lot of recently, and the Drought Monitor reflects that. Any change in that Drought Monitor? Well, we’ll ask Corey Davis about that. He is the Assistant State Climatologist for North Carolina, and man, I tell you, I got a […]