Ohio ag director says farmers desire agriculture-friendly laws
Water quality and food safety were among the topics discussed when Ohio Department of Agriculture Director David Daniels visited Wayne County to celebrate Ag Week in Ohio.
USDA shows corn for feed use well below expectations
March 1 corn, soybean and wheat inventory in the United States was higher than a year ago. Corn stocks totaled 7.74 billion bushels, 11 percent more than a year ago.
Crash in Global Dairy Trade prices not 'April Fool's joke'
The April 1 Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction added to the losses incurred in the March 17 event as the weighted average for all products plunged 10.8 percent.
Looking for 2015 hog slaughter to be second highest after 2008
The March Hogs and Pigs Report indicates hog slaughter will stay well above the year-ago level through August. The inventories of market hogs by weight group were from 6 percent to 9.4 percent larger than a year ago.
Agriculture’s Clean Water Alliance (ACWA) is leading a $713,000 Water Quality Initiative (WQI) in the Elk Run Watershed to engage farmers in parts of Sac, Calhoun and Carroll counties in discussion and implementation of water conservation practices outlined in the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy.
Increasingly volatile weather may be reducing fertilizer effectiveness, says Iowa State study
Increasingly volatile weather conditions may be changing how U.S. farmers handle their crop nutrients – and the effectiveness of their fertilizers, according to Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University (ISU) meteorologist and agronomist.
New council’s goal is to increase broadband investment, adoption
Last week President Barack Obama signed a memorandum starting the Broadband Opportunity Council, a group to unite over the goal of increasing broadband investment and adoption.
