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Market outlook: Where are grains, fertilizer and fuel headed?
Market outlook: Where are grains, fertilizer and fuel headed? Farm Progress
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When and How to Safely Involve Children in Farm Tasks?
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This article provides practical information that farm parents, or any caregiver, can use to decide when children can be on the farm worksite, the type of tasks that can be assigned to the children, and the safety measures to adopt. “Raising kids on the farm is one of my greatest joys.…
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Safety Considerations for Children on the Farm
MANHATTAN, Kan. – According to the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and safety, 33 serious injuries involving children occur on a farm or ranch in the United States every day. To prevent these incidents, only youth with proper training and experience should be allowed to drive large equipment (the leading cause of…
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Focus on Mexico
Focus on Mexico World Grain
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More bearish news for US wheat markets
More bearish news for US wheat markets BakingBusiness.com
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US beef production in decline despite heavier cows
Extra time in the feedlots has increased prices and discouraged meatpackers from raising slaughter rates.
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Why Soybean Prices Have Continued to Fall Throughout 2024
Why Soybean Prices Have Continued to Fall Throughout 2024 International Banker
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Alberta’s potato industry is booming thanks to a global appetite for french fries
Alberta’s potato industry is booming thanks to a global appetite for french fries CBC.ca
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How the EU is killing farmers’ livelihoods with multi-million dollar aid to a Ukrainian chicken king
How the EU is killing farmers’ livelihoods with multi-million dollar aid to a Ukrainian chicken king FTM.eu
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Farming Meets Solar at the 2024 Solar Farm Summit
CHICAGO — Chicago’s Loews Convention Center became home to the largest assembly of the solar and agriculture industries on the planet on July 8-10, as over 400 solar companies, farmers & ranchers, and University researchers converged on the Windy City for the Second Annual Solar Farm Summit. What brought these disparate parties together from across the…
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These Guidance Systems Are Giving Operators Optimal Field Efficiency
Manufacturers continue to upgrade their technology to ensure equipment operators have the edge they need to do the job right. The post These Guidance Systems Are Giving Operators Optimal Field Efficiency appeared first on CropLife.
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Russian Wheat Harvest Forecast Drops
Farmers in Russia’s breadbasket are battling temperatures over 120 degrees and trying to save a wheat crop hit hard by a heatwave, frosts, and even floods. Rostov, one of Russia’s key wheat-growing regions, accounted for 11 percent of the country’s total grain harvest last year, and ag ministry officials are monitoring it to make more…
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Flash Drought Intensifies in Mid-Atlantic Region
Following weeks of intense summer heat and little rainfall, AccuWeather says a flash drought has developed and intensified in a region stretching from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania. A flash drought is described as the sudden arrival of drought conditions that are set in motion by lower-than-normal rates of precipitation, accompanied by abnormally high temperatures, winds,…
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Lower commodity prices darken farm income outlook, says Federal Reserve
Lower commodity prices darken farm income outlook, says Federal Reserve Successful Farming
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More layoffs expected at John Deere as sales for farming equipment decline
More layoffs expected at John Deere as sales for farming equipment decline WOWT
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Governor Declares July to be Wheat Month in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. — When you bite into that cookie or graham cracker s’more this summer, you can thank a Michigan wheat farmer – and the state’s milling industry. Wheat is a multi-million-dollar-crop in the Great Lakes State, with most of it ending up in cookies, crackers, pretzels, pastries, cereals, pies and cakes. “Many think of…
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Wheat jumps 1%, rising for 2nd session on strong demand
Wheat jumps 1%, rising for 2nd session on strong demand Business Recorder
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Grain and Livestock Futures Finally See a Technical Bounce
Grain and Livestock Futures Finally See a Technical Bounce Agweb Powered by Farm Journal
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Too soon to know full crop impacts of weather extremes
Climatologists say it’s too soon to know how exactly much the excessive moisture and other weather extremes have negatively affected the U.S. crop. “So far, the (weekly USDA) crop conditions are generally very good. But usually, wetter years aren’t big yield loss years.” Dennis Todey with USDA’s Midwest Climate Hub says overall, while U.S. crop…
