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Cattle Border Reopens, Screwworm Still Looms

Border line dance: U.S. cattle trade with Mexico is getting a careful restart, emphasis on careful. The Douglas, Arizona, port is slated to reopen Aug. 24, with Santa Teresa and Columbus in New Mexico under later evaluation. Every animal crossing gets a full inspection for New World screwworm. The catch: The move depends on Mexico continuing to meet a joint control plan, with northern states treated as lower risk. Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, framed the m

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Weather Keeps Eating the Menu

Europe’s summer has reached the point where the weather map looks less like a forecast and more like a dare. Heat dome buffet: After brutal heat domes, wildfires have pushed through parts of Spain and France, forcing evacuations and turning dry ground into kindling with a passport. It is the kind of season that makes “resilience” sound less like a grant word and more like an emergency grocery list. Scorched spreadsheet: The damage is already sprawling. Fires across France and

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Pest Patrol Gets a $90M Badge

Somewhere, an invasive bug is probably packing a tiny suitcase. USDA is trying to make sure it does not enjoy the trip. Bug budget: More than $90 million is headed toward plant pest prevention, mitigation and clean plant work. That covers surveys, response plans and the deeply unglamorous jobs that keep one weird insect from becoming everyone’s personality for the next decade. The pest guest list: The work includes detector dog training, honey bee surveys across dozens of sta

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Goat Meat Gets Its Moment

A couple hundred miles from the nearest big livestock headline, the sale barn is doing exactly what sale barns do best: getting loud, getting dusty and quietly telling you where demand is headed next. Bleat market: Demand for goats and sheep has moved well past the “somebody’s side project” stage. Buyers are showing up with real interest, and small producers are finding that animals once treated like pasture extras can bring serious receipts. The pull is coming from immigrant

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Weather Keeps Eating the Menu

Europe’s summer has reached the point where the weather map looks less like a forecast and more like a dare. Heat dome buffet: After brutal heat domes, wildfires have pushed through parts of Spain and France, forcing evacuations and turning dry ground into kindling with a passport. It is the kind of season that makes “resilience” sound less like a grant word and more like an emergency grocery list. Scorched spreadsheet: The damage is already sprawling. Fires across France and

Farming

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Pest Patrol Gets a $90M Badge

Somewhere, an invasive bug is probably packing a tiny suitcase. USDA is trying to make sure it does not enjoy the trip. Bug budget: More than $90 million is headed toward plant pest prevention, mitigation and clean plant work. That covers surveys, response plans and the deeply unglamorous jobs that keep one weird insect from becoming everyone’s personality for the next decade. The pest guest list: The work includes detector dog training, honey bee surveys across dozens of sta

Farming

1 hour ago

Goat Meat Gets Its Moment

A couple hundred miles from the nearest big livestock headline, the sale barn is doing exactly what sale barns do best: getting loud, getting dusty and quietly telling you where demand is headed next. Bleat market: Demand for goats and sheep has moved well past the “somebody’s side project” stage. Buyers are showing up with real interest, and small producers are finding that animals once treated like pasture extras can bring serious receipts. The pull is coming from immigrant

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Cattle Border Reopens, Screwworm Still Looms

Border line dance: U.S. cattle trade with Mexico is getting a careful restart, emphasis on careful. The Douglas, Arizona, port is slated to reopen Aug. 24, with Santa Teresa and Columbus in New Mexico under later evaluation. Every animal crossing gets a full inspection for New World screwworm. The catch: The move depends on Mexico continuing to meet a joint control plan, with northern states treated as lower risk. Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, framed the m

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Feral Hogs Get a $35M Hit List

Hog wild: USDA is putting $35M on the table to help partners fight feral swine, which sounds like an expensive pest-control bill until you remember the pigs have been treating fields, forests and fences like an all-you-can-root buffet. The big pen: The money is part of a broader $105M effort through the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program. NRCS and APHIS are teaming up on targeted projects, landowner support and damage reduction. By the numbers: Earlier pilot wo

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Corn Belt Wants More Than Corn and Soybeans

Rotation renovation: A new look at the Corn Belt says farmers want more room to grow beyond the corn-soybean two-step. That does not mean producers forgot how elevators, crop insurance and equipment payments work. It means many are interested in adding small grains, forage, livestock, trees or other options, but the system keeps whispering, “Have you considered another 80 acres of corn?” The bottleneck: The report lays out barriers that are painfully familiar: limited markets

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