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A lot of color on the Drought Monitor map right now, to get a description of that, I turn to Corey Davis, Assistant State Climatologist from the State Climate Office of North Carolina. What are you seeing right now, Corey? “Well, Mike, you know, this is the time of the year that we usually look […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Election day is behind us and the outcome is not in question. That is a weight off the market right now. The markets have not started pricing in policies of the new administration yet because frankly, we […]

Federal health officials are calling for more testing and treatment of workers on farms with bird flu. The new guidance comes after a study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn’t report feeling sick. Blood tests of 115 workers on farms in Michigan and Colorado showed that eight workers had antibodies that indicated previous infection. The finding suggests the virus may be spreading more widely. Four of the workers reported feeling sick and four reported no symptoms. Officials said the risk to the public remains low.

In the marketplace, there was thinning volume ahead of the elections on Tuesday, with expectations of potential fireworks in the overnight trading session, and with Donald Trump elected as president, soybeans dropped 20 cents. Corn down to before the market opened on Wednesday, Don Roose, president of US Commodities, says the bottom line: “It’s the […]

How big a corn crop will our growers harvest this season? Will us soybean production actually set a new record high, as some have predicted? We’ll have a very much better idea about that just hours from now, this Friday the eighth. “By the time we get to November, the forecasts are usually very close […]

An Iowa State ag economist is much less hopeful for the price of soybeans as it relates to leaving them in long-term storage. Chad Hart is an Extension agricultural economist from Iowa State University. Well, as you know, I’m hearing that there is some movement, but I’m hearing a lot more that a lot of […]

With farmers up against tight margins and continuing to wait on a new Farm Bill, the Farm Assistance and Revenue Mitigation Act (FARM Act) has been introduced to Congress to help offset some of that financial pressure. Farm CPA Paul Neiffer on the Top Producer podcast says the $20 billion sought for farmers could be […]

USDA recently confirmed the first case of H5N1 bird flu in a pig. Dr. Megan Niederwerder, executive director of the Swine Health Information Center, says after the virus jumped from poultry to the beef herd, there was a possibility of it moving into pork as well. “We certainly knew it was a risk. I think […]

With agricultural labor challenges across the entire sector, some farmers and ranchers are turning to a unique type of visa to alleviate the burden. Samantha Ayoub, an associate economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the TN visa program is meant to help farmers find technically skilled workers. “TN visas are part of the […]

Veterans Day is coming up on Monday, November 11. How important are military veterans to South Carolina agriculture? Here in South Carolina, around 12 percent of producers are serving or have served in the military. We’re tied with Florida for 1st in the nation. Nationwide, there are around 306,000 producers with previous or current military […]