The latest news from the agricultural sector
2022-06-27
Conducting Home Germination Tests On This Year's Wheat Seed
Read Conducting Home Germination Tests On This Year`s Wheat Seed in addition to hundreds of recent farming and agriculture news articles. View up to date crop reports, livestock information and ag... Read more
2022-06-27
First Soybean Aphids Of 2022
Today, while scouting for bean leaf beetle south of Ames, my lab found a few early vegetative plants with soybean aphid. Actually, it was Ashley Dean who found them. It was the ants moving on plants... Read more
2022-06-27
Michigan Farms May Not Cook And Feed Garbage To Swine
Fig. 1 Adapted from USDA website: fs-swine-producers-garbage-feeding.pdf (usda.gov). States shaded blue prohibit garbage feeding to pigs, states shaded yellow allow garbage feeding. Read more
2022-06-27
American Agri-Women Supports Policies to Increase Domestic Energy and Food Supplies
American Agri-Women (AAW) applauds recent efforts in Congress to use all our resources for food and energy independence.
AAW President Heather Hampton+Knodle said, “Energy and food self-sufficiency... Read more
2022-06-27
Missouri Weather Update: Conditions Continue to Favor Drought
In general, northern Missouri has continued to receive timely rains and crops look good as reported by
MU Extension Field Specialists in Agronomy. However, for much of the state the situation is... Read more
2022-06-27
Considerations for Selecting & Installing an Electric Fence Charger
Kable Thurlow, Educator, Michigan State University Extension Thomas Guthrie, Statewide Educator, MSU Extension Timothy Harrigan, Associate Professor, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural... Read more
2022-06-27
Texas Hay Season Looks Bleak
The 2022 Texas hay production outlook appears in doubt due to high fertilizer prices and widespread drought, said
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. Read more
2022-06-27
Study Shows Calls To Reduce 'Intensive' Livestock Farming Practices To Mitigate EID Risk May Be Premature
Read Study Shows Calls To Reduce `Intensive` Livestock Farming Practices To Mitigate EID Risk May Be Premature in addition to hundreds of recent farming and agriculture news articles. View up to date... Read more
2022-06-27
CCGA preparing to implement enhanced interest-free benefit for cash advances
A recent change to the Advance Payments Program (APP) could save farmers who use the program up to $5,500 in interest costs over the next two years. The enhancement, announced on June 23 by... Read more
2022-06-27
First cut of hay producing very good yields
It appears that alfalfa fields in southeastern Manitoba did not mind our wet spring. Read more
2022-06-27
As big data aims to boost Sask. agriculture, some are skeptical
The word ‘data’ has become what some farmers in Saskatchewan would describe as a four-letter swearword. Read more