USDA to continue expanding its Whole Farm Revenue Protection
The USDA announced late last month it is expanding the availability of a different kind of farm insurance policy called Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP).
USDA: 9 percent of Midwest farmland to transfer by 2020
Nine percent of all Midwest farmland will transfer ownership in the next five years, according to a USDA report released last week. And rented farmland will transfer at an even higher rate, based on a 2014 survey.
Delayed biotech traits cost both farmer and consumer
Dr. Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, director of economics and management for the Agrobiotechnology Center and a professor of agribusiness strategy for the University of Missouri, doesn’t like delays, regulatory or otherwise.
Speakers: Biotech approval still a struggle in EU, China
Synchronizing biotechnology regulatory systems in order to provide better world food security through increases in crop yield and food product quality were the drivers at the International Biotechnology Symposium, on Aug. 31 in Bloomington.
U.S. Senate Bill 1500, the Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2015, would eliminate the requirement that farmers and others obtain a special permit in order to use pesticides in some circumstances.
Farm-related businesses suffer with smaller bottom lines
The recent agricultural reports of the Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago Federal Reserve Banks paint a picture of a U.S. agricultural sector facing the challenge of lower crop prices.
