Farm Aid 2019 tickets go on sale Friday
Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews among the performers Tickets for Farm Aid 2019 go on sale Friday (July 12) at 10 a.m. CDT. Farm Aid’s annual music and food festival...
View ArticleGlobal Roundtable for Sustainable Beef talks antimicrobials
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef includes people from 25 countries and all parts of beef value chain Beef producers across the world work to raise cattle in differing environments.“When it...
View ArticleFarm Progress America, July 11, 2019
Max Armstrong shares some insight on the rising attention of the restaurant industry to meat substitute products Max Armstrong offers a look at the plant-based protein hype wondering if these products...
View ArticleMORNING Midwest Digest, July 11, 2019
Max Armstrong talks about kids dying in hot cars, alcohol in the Ohio River, yield estimates and USDA reports and a retired steam locomotive. Another child was forgotten in a back seat and died from...
View ArticleMIDDAY Midwest Digest, July 11, 2019
Max Armstrong talks about the search for a murderer, more flooding in Nebraska, USMCA approval, antique farm shows and more. The Delphi, Ind., community is still looking for the person who murdered...
View ArticleUSDA starts making DMC payments
Producers can enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage program through Sept. 20, 2019 USDA’s Farm Service Agency opened enrollment for the Dairy Margin Coverage program on June 17 and has started issuing...
View ArticleTrade war may permanently alter trade, Cargill exec says
Worsening growth outlook, tightening credit in agricultural economy result from retaliatory tariffs By Mario ParkerThe longer the trade war between the U.S. and China persists, the more permanent the...
View ArticleUSDA pauses honey bee colony data collection
USDA cites fiscal constraints in announcing decision USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will not collect quarterly data this month for the annual Honey Bee Colonies report, which is still...
View Article7 ag stories you might have missed this week - July 12, 2019
How did POET get its start? Wisconsin breeder named Master Breeder. JPMorgan pulls back on ag investments. Missed some ag news this week? Here are seven stories to catch you up.1. JPMorgan Chase &...
View ArticleCargill earnings plunge on trade war, incessant rains
For the three months through May, net income fell 67% from a year ago to $235 million By Mario ParkerCargill Inc. posted the steepest profit decline in four years as America’s largest closely held...
View ArticleTractor friends get together for annual reunion
Slideshow: Once a year, Andrew Fox’s Newmanstown, Pa., farm hosts a tractor reunion. Farming is just a “hobby” for Andrew Fox of Newmanstown, Pa. But his hobby has made him lots of friends with nice...
View ArticleFarm Progress America, July 12, 2019
Max Armstrong shares a look at a secret word meat-substitute companies like to use. Max Armstrong continues his look at plant-based meat substitutes with information from a restaurant industry expert....
View ArticleMoDak Dairy hosts 800 people at annual open house
Slideshow: The Goodwin, S.D., dairy houses more than 2,000 cows and farms 3,000 acres. About 800 people turned out for the recent annual open house at MoDak Dairy, Goodwin, S.D.,MoDak Dairy milks more...
View ArticleMORNING Midwest Digest, July 12, 2019
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about the Farm Days show, flooding, a state budget surplus, solar power plants and more. Max is at the Farm Days show in Illinois.Flooding across the Midwest...
View ArticleEPA approves insecticide sulfoxaflor
Agricultural Retailers Association applauds EPA's decision The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today (July 12) issued approval for the insecticide sulfoxaflor for use on alfalfa, corn, cacao,...
View ArticleThis Week in Agribusiness, July 13, 2019
Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson hear the latest on trade, technology and agvocacy. Greg Soulje is on to suggest we might need … rain? Part 1Note: The video automatically plays through all show parts...
View ArticleBrazil strengthens soybean export lead
Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus invest billions in new terminals and developing routes to ports By Tatiana FreitasBrazil, the biggest soybean exporter, is strengthening its lead against the U.S. after...
View ArticleGVL contributes to National Pork Producers Council
Goal to help NPPC recover funds lost from cancellation of World Pork Expo. Following the National Pork Producers Council board of director’s decision to cancel World Pork Expo this year, GVL, a...
View ArticleLaw firm urges EPA to keep petitions secret
Republican senators call on Trump to keep Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue from intervening Perkins Cole, a law firm representing small U.S. refineries has urged the Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleDrones provide high-tech way of measuring bunk silo feed
Aurox in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has done flights on more than 100 farms in the Northeast. Measuring the amount of feed in a bunk silo usually means getting on top of the feed and getting out the old...
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