Dec 12
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has partnered with Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever for the second year to help increase pollinator habitat on agricultural lands. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever is a non-profit conservation organization with a 40-year history of working with private landowners to help them meet their on-farm habitat goals. With over 250 field staff providing technical assistance to …
Dec 12
The U.S. Meat Export Federations strategic planning conference took place last month in Oklahoma City, where they named Dean Meyer the new Chairman. Meyer is a corn, soybean, and livestock producer from Rock Rapids, Iowa. Farm Director KC Sheperd caught up with Meyer, who said the conference provided great information that brings something to everyone …
Dec 12
Senior Farm and Ranch Broadcaster, Ron Hays, is visiting with the Chairman of the Cattlemen’s Congress board of directors and president of Express Ranches, Jarold Callahan. Regarding last year’s show, Callahan said he was pleased with how everything came together. “The sales were fantastic, the participation was really good, and it just continued to grow,” …
Dec 12
State Climatologist Gary McManus says a storm system is approaching from the West, “That system will drag a cold front through the state that will not only help propagate storms eastward through the state but also bring us back down to actual winter!” McManus says we will see the coldest weather around the Christmas Holiday, …
Dec 12
Holiday giving season is under way, and NMPF’s National Dairy Leadership Scholarship Program is a worthy beneficiary for anyone who cares about a better industry future, explains Nicole Ayache, who leads the program at NMPF, in the latest Dairy Defined podcast. The scholarship supports graduate students, enrolled in master’s or doctoral programs, who are actively …
Dec 12
There is a new blog post out at the Southern Plains Perspective, by Clay Pope. Read below! I thought I had a great idea in mind for my blog this week….I’m not kidding. But, as with all the best-laid plans of mice and men, they often go awry (and so did my blog idea). So …
Dec 09
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has extended the deadline for producers to enroll in Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) and Supplemental Dairy Margin Coverage (SDMC) for program year 2023 to Jan. 31, 2023. MC is a voluntary risk management program that offers protection to dairy producers when the difference between the all-milk price and the average feed price …
Dec 09
USDA on Friday lowered export demand for corn by 75 million bushels (mb), raising ending stocks in the process. They also dropped corn export demand to 2.075 billion bushels (bb), down 75 mb from November. That raised ending stocks to 1.257 bb. USDA released the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) for December …
