California wildfires not likely to impact Midwest grape business
Tourists flocking to this historic Missouri River town, a center of the Midwest grape industry, are enjoying beautiful fall weather during Hermann’s month-long Oktoberfest celebration.
Michigan CWD symposium gathers disease experts from whole nation
Michigan hosted a two-day symposium earlier this month on chronic wasting disease (CWD), a disease afflicting deer, elk and moose – and that vexes officials even as they try to eradicate it.
AEM, NFMS partnership ends over fundamental differences
Talks that would have created an unprecedented partnership for the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS) in Louisville have ended, according to the Assoc. of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), which backed away from negotiations because of fundamental differences in the two groups’ goals.
California's FarmBot bringing robots to gardens and farmers
Raising a garden is hard work. Planting seeds by hand is only followed by daily watering and then plucking, pruning and weeding, and that’s only if the plants grow as they should. What if the plants are plagued by pests, sending you to the Internet countless times for diagnosis and recommended solutions?
Kentucky Ag accepting hemp grower applications for 2018
Continuing with its successful hemp growing, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) has opened the application period for those wishing to participate in the state’s industrial hemp research pilot program for the 2018 growing season.
Great early weather, soils and late-harvest yields above 300
So far this harvest season in Illinois, the Don and Ralph Walter farm in LaSalle County has produced the highest yields in the annual Famers’ Independent Research of Seed Technologies, or FIRST, variety trials.
FIRST adds states for 2017 seed test reporting season
It’s a challenge for producers to pick the best corn and soybean seeds to plant. They can simplify that by using the information furnished by the Farmers’ Independent Research of Seed Technologies (FIRST), which provides timely, unbiased comparison of innovative seed genetics to improve yield and profitability for American corn and soybean farmers.
Groups unite to promote funds in farm bill toward conservation
They may be strange bedfellows: The World Wildlife Fund, Center for Rural Affairs, Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA), National Farmers Union (NFU), Union of Concerned Scientists and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). But they’ve joined together to call for a strengthened and expanded Conservation Title in the 2018 farm bill.
