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Ruling the Roost: USDA's New Packers and Stockyards Act Rule
New rule, who this? A new rule from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service aims to protect farmers and ranchers from retaliation with...
Mar 8, 2024


EPA Announces New Office
The EPA made an announcement last week, and for once, it wasn’t about a new regulation. Michael Regan, EPA Administrator, announced the...
Mar 5, 2024


New York's Beef with JBS
New York is suing JBS for being the Big Bad Apple in the fight for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. What’s the beef ? New York...
Mar 5, 2024


WeedOut Goes Green
WeedOut is going green, green with cash, and green with weeds. The Israel-based company completed its Series A funding, bringing in $8.1M...
Mar 1, 2024


Pest Prevention is Red
The answer for keeping pests away isn’t black or white. It’s not even blue or green; it’s red. While bug netting of the past was...
Mar 1, 2024


Paving the Way to PRRS-Free Pork
Entering the chat: gene-edited pigs. And they’re not just any gene-edited pigs – ones resistant to the virus that has cost the pork...
Mar 1, 2024


Soil Data Gets Series B Funding
DNA analysis is all the rage these days—from uncovering long lost cousins to decoding your dog’s real breed. Trace Genomics, now armed...
Feb 27, 2024


USDA to Revamp Rural Priorities
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cracking down on racial discrimination. Rural revamp: The USDA’s Equity Commission released a...
Feb 27, 2024


Running Out: Global Ag Soils Low in K
Fertile soils are vital to productive agriculture and global food security. But according to a recent study out of the United Kingdom,...
Feb 27, 2024


Policy at the Pump: Corn’s Conundrum
Ethanol producers wish the "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" rule would come into play right now. Give me fuel, give me fire: Recently,...
Feb 23, 2024


Flower Power
The future of cleaning up waterways might just be pretty, fragrant, and inexpensive. What could possibly provide these benefits? Flower...
Feb 20, 2024


Ghost Newspapers Haunt News Deserts
Being famous in a small town is getting tougher these days; you can’t make the front page of the Turnertown Gazette if the newspaper’s...
Feb 20, 2024


Vilsack Pushes CCC Funds Amid Farm Bill Delay
As Congress kicks the farm bill can down the road, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has potential remedies for farm programs. Legislative...
Feb 20, 2024


Talk Nerdy To Me: 2022 Ag Census Results Available
The 2022 Ag Census collected 6M data points on producers, production, economics, and almost every aspect of agriculture you can imagine....
Feb 16, 2024


TEMPS ⬆️, SOIL MOISTURE ⬆️
SGN! Some good news , or perhaps some surprising news. As global temperatures have been on the rise, one might guess that soil moisture...
Feb 16, 2024


Pork’s Plight: Challenging Times for the Pork Industry
Unfortunately for the pork industry, not everyone had Michael Scott’s level of love for bacon in 2023. Low piggy bank: Pork producers...
Feb 16, 2024


New Water Data on Tap
CropX Technologies is pairing up with Reinke Irrigation for a new partnership to bring Xtra irrigation data to farmers. Reinke Direct...
Feb 13, 2024


EPA and USDA Join Forces on Conservation
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the USDA to protect endangered species....
Feb 13, 2024


Dicamba Gets the Boot
Voices throughout the ag community blew up last week when news of a recent dicamba ruling hit the fan and began to drift across the...
Feb 13, 2024


Show Me The Money—Inari Raises $103M
A farm can’t operate without its farmer. That’s why new initiatives are underway to help keep the farmer and rancher on the farm and...
Feb 9, 2024
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