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A first-year Wisconsin agriculture educator says her school’s success has been a team effort with students, administrators, and the community.  Amelia Hayden is the ag teacher and FFA advisor for the Osseo-Fairchild school district. “We’ve got a lot of students who are interested in everything from beef production to natural resources to leadership and communications, so it’s really exciting to see how their experiences in FFA are propelling them to […]

Michigan farmers say this season is one of the driest they’ve ever experienced.  Bill Hunt farms 11,000 acres across four counties in eastern Michigan and tells Brownfield this has been the driest growing season he’s seen in 50 years of farming. “I was surprised how many spots in certain fields have just burnt right up and those are on really sandy soils—there’s no yield there now,” he shares.  “There might […]

U.S. ethanol production and stocks both moved lower last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.018 million barrels a day, a decline of 18,000 on the week and 42,000 on the year. Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development says margins for the average Iowa plant receded slightly, while remaining in positive territory. The Renewable Fuels Association says ethanol stocks dropped 722,000 barrels from the […]

The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture said the proposed ag budget would reduce spending by removing Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack’s discretionary use of the Commodity Credit Corporation. The CCC was created to stabilize, support and protect farm income and prices. It can also help maintain balanced and adequate supplies of ag commodities and helps in an orderly distribution. The CCC was used to provide funding to farmers […]

A coalition of Republican governors is asking Congressional leaders to reintroduce a bill that would prevent states from impeding interstate ag trade.   Governors representing more than half of US pork production sent a letter saying their request is a result of the US Supreme Court upholding California’s Proposition 12 rule, which requires pork to be raised in a specific manner to be sold within the state. Absent from the […]

India’s Minister of Agriculture has awarded Verdesian the Global Leadership Award in Biostimulants and Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) Solutions at BioAg India.  R.K. Goyal, managing director South Asia & South East Asia for Verdesian Life Sciences says the award is a testament to both the NUE biostimulant technology and the work of the Verdesian team in India.  He says Verdesian is just beginning to scratch the surface of how its […]

Commentary. The most recent United States Drought Monitor, produced in partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska and the United States Department of Agriculture and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows nearly all of the Midwest is experiencing some level of drought. For many, especially in the western portion of the Midwest, drought has been ongoing for multiple years. It is the second year of […]