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USDA to Dole Out Climate-Smart Cash
On Monday, the USDA shared plans to send more green to farmers growing cleaner, greener pastures. The new Partnerships for...
Feb 11, 2022


Temps Freeze Out Florida Fruit
The last week of January brrrrrr ought a cold snap to Florida. The record low temperatures damaged many crops and left farmers...
Feb 11, 2022


Feeling the Hurt in Fert: Nitrogen Prices Still Soaring
Just when you thought nitrogen prices couldn’t go any higher... The Commerce Department has reached a preliminary ruling regarding...
Feb 8, 2022


ADM: Can I Have Flies With That?
Sometimes we feed our pets better than we feed ourselves, but a new partnership might test that sentiment. And it just might bug you. ...
Feb 8, 2022


Food Chain Meets Blockchain
Blockchain technology isn’t just for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: applying it to food traceability is closer than you think. How close?...
Feb 8, 2022


Have you Herd? Shrink's the Word.
Where’s the beef? Apparently not on farms… at least not as many head as there were last year. That’s according to the Cattle Inventory...
Feb 4, 2022


Ag Barometer Is Feeling the Pressure
Pinched profits are sending farmer sentiment to its second-lowest level since July 2020. The Purdue University/CME Ag Economy Barometer...
Feb 4, 2022


What's the (Soil) Matter, Danone?
Danone North America sure is milking its soil health program . The company launched the program in 2017 to improve organic matter in...
Feb 4, 2022


Kula-Aid for Soil
Investors are drinking the Kula-aid. Kula Bio, a startup company focusing on developing biofertilizers to compete with synthetic...
Feb 1, 2022


The H-2A Wage Debate
There’s been a boom in H-2A workers the last 5 years—and there’s about to be a boom in their wages, too. Many H-2A nonimmigrant...
Feb 1, 2022


FOMO on FMMO Changes
The dairy industry is mooving toward changing the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) system that has divided milk into four classes...
Feb 1, 2022


War and... Wheat?
Things are a little tense in Eastern Europe. ( The understatement of the year.) With Russia amassing troops along the Ukrainian border...
Jan 28, 2022


Walmart's Plentiful Investment
Everything’s bigger in… California? At least when it comes to funding rounds for indoor, vertical farming. Retail giant Walmart was...
Jan 28, 2022


WOTUS Heads to SCOTUS
"Waters of the United States" might finally get a clear definition, as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take on a WOTUS case—and decide...
Jan 28, 2022


EPA Steps Up to the ESA Plate
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening a once-blind eye to its responsibility to comply with the Endangered Species Act...
Jan 25, 2022


Supply Squeeze
New estimates of Florida's orange crop are not so sunshiney : The USDA is predicting the lowest production figures since 1945. The...
Jan 25, 2022


More Autonomous Tractor News...
Uber for agriculture is just around the corner, and Agtonomy is making it happen. Using a mobile phone app, a farmer can assign a job to...
Jan 25, 2022


Movers & Shakers: Janette Barnard of Merck Animal Health Ventures & Prime Future
Judging by her Instagram account, you might think Janette Barnard is simply a cactus connoisseur. But don’t let her love of nature fool...
Jan 24, 2022


Cuckoo for Cover Crops
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is sending a clear message to America’s farmers: Don’t farm naked—plant cover crops… LOTS of them. At the...
Jan 21, 2022


Solar Bots for Soil Regen
Aigen’s carbon-keeping, weed-whacking robots just got an extra dose of fuel—and we’re not talking extra fun in the sun. After a $4M seed...
Jan 21, 2022
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