Category: Ag News

R-CALF USA’s Bill Bullard Calls APHIS EID Tag Plan Wrongheaded

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:05:03 CST

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Protection Service (APHIS) published a proposed rule to require adult cattle shipped interstate to bear a radio frequency …

Feeder Steers and Heifers Lower, Steer and Heifer Calves Lower at Woodward Livestock on Thursday

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 03:13:07 CST

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Dairy Industry Eager for Reforms to Federal Milk Marketing Orders

“Make allowances” last updated in 2008 no longer reflect dairy manufacturing costs U.S. dairy producers and processors are paying close attention to preliminary discussions about the 2023 Farm Bill in anticipation of critical reforms to Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs). Prevailing consensus within the industry is that the FMMOs currently in place do not reflect …

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Members of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Announced

Scientific experts will review the body of evidence on key nutrition topics to help inform HHS-USDA’s development of next guidelines The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of 20 nationally recognized scientists to serve on the 2025 …

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John Deere and Nutrien Ag Solutions Announce Release of Advanced Digital Connectivity

Nutrien Ag Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Nutrien Ltd., and John Deere jointly announced today the release of advanced digital connectivity between the John Deere Operations Center™ and Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Digital Hub. This connectivity enables both companies to better serve growers by optimizing logistics and enabling variable rate agronomic recommendations to be seamlessly transferred …

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Biodiversity And Productivity Has Grown In Modern U.S. Wheat Varieties

Story Credit: U.S. Wheat Associates Wheat Letter Blog Reprinted with Permission from the University of Minnesota. Agriculture is seen as both a key cause of the global biodiversity crisis and a principal means of addressing it. Though some advocates are calling for farmers to return to heirloom varieties of crops as a way for the agriculture …

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Biden-Harris Administration Launches New Efforts to Address the Wildfire Crisis

Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced expanded efforts to reduce wildfire risk across the western U.S. These investments, made possible through President Biden’s landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will directly protect at-risk communities and critical infrastructure across 11 additional landscapes in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. …

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OSU to host pecan pest management workshop Feb. 21

By Trisha Gedon Consumers may think about pecans when they’re ready to make a pecan pie or other tasty treat, but this nut is always on the minds of producers in the pecan industry. Oklahoma pecan producers will focus on pest control in the orchard at the 2023 Pecan Pest Management Workshop from 8:30 a.m. …

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