NIFA chief talks about nutritional security during update at Purdue
Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sonny Ramaswamy spoke to a gathering of Purdue University faculty, staff and students last month to give a NIFA update of the organization’s goals, understandings and funding opportunities for 2016.
Global food security focus of U.S. House hearing last week
Improving farm productivity and biosecurity in the United States is vital to maintaining a reliable global food supply, according to testimony at a U.S. House hearing last week.
Keeping sheep on the farm – and keeping the farm in the family for the next generation of shepherds – will highlight the list of topics at the 2015 Buckeye Shepherds Symposium.
House nixes trucking weight boost, frustrating ag groups
Last week’s defeat of U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble’s (R-Wis.) Safe, Flexible and Efficient Trucking Act disappointed more than 70 leading agricultural organizations that support legislation allowing individual states the option to permit semis to weigh up to 91,000 pounds with an additional axle.
Rich, forgiving soils aid soy plots at Illinois farm for test
FS HiSOY’s HS 27A50 soybean variety bested a field of heavyweight producers to take top yield honors in an all-season test of 72 seed technologies this year, at the Todd Randecker farm in Pearl City, a north-central Illinois community in Stevenson County.
Could dry soils discourage application of fall nitrogen?
Drier-than-normal soil conditions across the United States are starting to get market attention. There are some long-range models that indicate these conditions could last through the winter months and into the spring planting season.
Drop in GDT prices brings bearish feel to dairy markets
Global prices are feeding the bears, dropping in the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction Tuesday, Nov. 4, after slipping Oct. 20, reversing gains in the previous four sessions.
Hog prices have fallen almost $15/cwt. in the past month
U.S. pork exports were up 17.8 percent in September compared to a year earlier with large increases in exports to Japan, China, Mexico and Australia. September was the second consecutive month with exports higher than last year.
Ohio FFA member takes home American Star Farmer Award
When Ohio FFAer Austin Wippel of Orient began his Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE), he had no idea his knowledge and love for hay would bring him national recognition at the 88th annual National FFA Convention & Expo.
