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Commercial drone company takes different approach
Started by pilots, this new service creates a cloud data platform with an eye on aviation issues. How will the unmanned aerial vehicle business evolve? What stumbling blocks keep these airships from...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 21, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about gas taxes, the pork industry, stimulus spending, a young COVID death, protests and toilet paper. Some of the states with highest gas taxes are in the Midwest.The pork...
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COVID-19 has reignited nationalism discussion
From the French Revolution to the Arab Spring, price rises and food shortages have fueled conflict, toppled leaders and overthrown regimes. By Caroline Alexander and Agnieszka de SousaWhen it comes to...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, April 21, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about residential fires, relaxing social distancing, support for essential workers, planting progress and more. Residential fires are bad any time, but right now could be...
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Navigable Waters Protection Rule published
New rule replaces WOTUS. It defines jurisdictional waters, defines terms and provides exclusions for water features. The EPA and the Army Department published the Navigable Waters Protection Rule to...
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McLane Global delivers meals to rural communities
The Emergency Meals-To-You Partnership aims to deliver 1 million meals each week. According to Feeding America, rural counties make up 84% of counties with the highest percentage of children at risk...
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Ranch soil health makeover brings more profit, less work
The Lockners have increased profits and efficiency by looking to nature to solve age-old ag problems. Dean and Candice Lockner, of Thousand Hills Ranch, Ree Heights, S.D., embraced one of Albert...
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Virtual career fair set for NIFA, ERS
Agencies relocated to Kansas City last year and looking to replace employees who didn't make the move from Washington, D.C. USDA's Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and...
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Farm Progress America, April 22, 2020
Max Armstrong looks at data showing that rising ag productivity also nets a lower environmental impact Max Armstrong shares the work of Farmers for a Sustainable Future, which is a coalition of farm...
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Japanese company acquires 35 Bunge elevators
Zen-Noh Grain Corporation affiliate CGB Enterprises will operate the facilities along the Mississippi River if transaction approved. Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, a subsidiary of the National Federation...
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RFA analysis details ethanol industry losses
COVID-19 slams ethanol industry as workers work from home, curtail non-essential travel. U.S. ethanol sales in 2020 could fall by more than $10 billion and the industry’s contribution to gross...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 22, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about lawsuits against China, long-term care facility deaths, egg demand and hearing about goodwill efforts. Some legal experts say lawsuits brought against China for "causing" the...
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Flexibility will be key for Farm Credit
Farm Credit adapting to pandemic challenges Despite continued deterioration of the U.S. agriculture economy, Farm Credit remains committed to meeting the needs of borrower members and will rely on a...
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New tech, disease combine to stall a tradition
Remote farm auctions for equipment and cattle have long been used to augment live sales, now they're necessary but what have we lost? I'm not, as a rule, sentimental. As things change, I work to go...
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Farmers launch Leading Harvest
Leading Harvest is agriculture sustainability venture providing industry-wide solution to cropland resilience. Today, on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a group of farmers, conservationists, land...
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Farm Progress America, April 23, 2020
Max Armstrong looks at research in the works aiming to learn more about what's needed for organic production Max Armstrong observes the changing conversation regarding organic food as consumers...
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Producers sign record number of PLC, ARC contracts
Enrollment in Price Loss Coverage and Agriculture Risk Coverage programs continues for the 2020 crop year. Producers flocked to their USDA Service Center to sign up for USDA's Agriculture Risk...
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COVID-19 cuts meat processing capacity
CFTC establishes Livestock Market Task Force to monitor activity during pandemic. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission last week established a Livestock Market Task Force to monitor market...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, April 23, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about a population shift, the meat packing industry, the GM plant making ventilators, economic impacts on Wisconsin businesses and face mask hazards. Are we going to see a jump in...
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China planning to meet trade deal commitments
Chinese officials may be worried about food security after some nations moved to restrict exports. By Bloomberg NewsChina is studying ways that it could accelerate purchases of U.S. farm goods to meet...
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