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Egg prices may increase up to 20% as top farm tests positive for bird flu: USDA
Egg prices may increase up to 20% as top farm tests positive for bird flu: USDA
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Is the Yield Potential 900 to 1,000 Bu. Per Acre for Corn? That’s What David Hula Thinks
Is the Yield Potential 900 to 1,000 Bu. Per Acre for Corn? That’s What David Hula Thinks Agweb Powered by Farm Journal
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What’s next for the dairy industry?
Photo by Brownfield’s Erin Anderson. A dairy market analyst says there’s potential for expansion in the industry. Mike North with Ever.ag says growing consumer interest in dairy as a protein could create more market opportunities for dairy producers. “Products that promote health, for example,” he says. “Consumers are demanding more protein and as we walk…
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How Farmers Can Try to Prepare for Tariffs in 2025
With additional trade wars on the horizon for 2025, Ag America’s Senior Director of Institutional Business Curt Covington says producers need to prepare for impact, and that hope alone is not a strategy. “If you hope that this is not going to affect your sector of agriculture, that’s a bad place to start.…
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Economist says heifer retention isn’t enough to grow the cattle herd
A livestock economist says the latest Cattle on Feed report shows no signs of widespread expansion in the cattle herd. Kenny Burdine with the University of Kentucky says the USDA estimates 38.7 percent of on-feed inventory is heifers. “It’s definitely not a number that implies that we’re retaining heifers enough to grow a cow herd,”…
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Indiana Farmer Turns Trash into Treasure
Indiana Farmer Turns Trash into Treasure Agweb Powered by Farm Journal
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Angus Genetics Showcased at 2025 National Western Angus Pen
DENVER — Angus producers competed for top honors during the 2025 National Western Stock Show (NWSS) Angus Pen & Carload Show, Jan. 18 in Denver, Colo. One carload and 24 pens-of-three were showcased in the Yards during the NWSS. John Pfeiffer, Orlando, Okla.; Adam Sawyer, Bassett, Neb.; and Doug Stevenson, Laurel, Mont., evaluated the bulls…
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Resistant Soybeans Combat $1.5 Billion Crop Loss From Nematode Infection
WASHINGTON — Soybean growers across the globe face a silent but devastating threat: the soybean cyst nematode (SCN). This microscopic pathogen attacks soybean roots, jeopardizing crop yields and causing more than $1.5 billion in annual losses in the United States alone. Despite decades of effort, effective solutions to protect soybeans from SCN remain elusive, as…
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Spent Brewers’ Grain Could Be Big Business as Chicken Feed
ITHACA, N.Y. — Chicken consumption has doubled in the U.S. since 1980, breezing past beef in 2010. But nearly three-quarters of production costs in the industry are bound up in what the birds eat. Spent grain from the brewing industry offers a huge opportunity for animal agriculture, with about 36.4 million tons produced as waste…
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Florida’s orange growers face record-low harvest amid citrus greening and climate challenges
Florida’s orange growers face record-low harvest amid citrus greening and climate challenges FreshPlaza.com
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Improve production and the bottom line by separating corn silage
Corn silage is a popular feed for livestock, especially dairy cattle. Clear Lake, Wisconsin farmer and inventor Greg Friendshuh has found that separating the fodder from the finer silage components and targeting those components to certain cattle groups has reduced feed costs, increased feed efficiency, increased milk production, and improved the farm’s bottom line. The…
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Tinkering with taxes
MANHATTAN, Kan. — My local public library has perhaps the best marketing of a tax-provided service ever. Patrons who check out items there receive a receipt that details the savings achieved by using the library. In 2024, my wife and I “saved” close to $5,000, according to this accounting. There are some generous assumptions made…
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USDA Cattle Inventory report predicted to reflect continued declining inventory
USDA Cattle Inventory report predicted to reflect continued declining inventory Michigan Farm News
