Agriculture

It was an explosive start to the House Ag Committee hearing on price discrepancies in the cattle markets. Coy Young is a cow/calf producer from Missouri.  “The American cattle farmers and ranchers are tired,” Young said. “Tired of being taken advantage of and losing money year after year, while watching the Big Four post record profits every single quarter.” He says packers continue to manipulate the system.  “AMAs (Alternative Marketing […]

EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the agency’s recently revamped pesticide process will be quicker and better inform farmers of available products. He said EPA scientists should decide what pesticides come on and off the market, not the courts. “And that’s why we’ve asked Congress for a budget that really begins to bolster our ability to get out from under the courts, out from under the litigation and really focus on […]

An ag meteorologist says chances for snow in parts of the Great Lakes are finally subsiding. State climatologist for Michigan Jeff Andresen says temperatures have been averaging 15 to 20 degrees cooler than normal for mid-April. “The air loft is really abnormally cold for this time of year—very, very cold—certainly subfreezing leading to more instability,” he explains. Unfortunately, the medium-range forecast into the first week of May includes more of […]

The Michigan Department of Agriculture is reporting another case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a backyard poultry flock. A 35-bird mixed-species flock in Saginaw County has been confirmed with the virus and the department says it has been depopulated. The Department of Natural Resources is also encouraging the public to temporarily remove outdoor bird feeders to help reduce the possibility of disease spreading. ...

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Across the Corn Belt, unusually cool weather prevails, except along and southwest of a line from near the Nebraska-South Dakota border into the lower Ohio Valley.  Frost and Freeze Warnings and Advisories were in effect early Wednesday across much of the eastern half of the Corn Belt.  Later Wednesday, Midwestern high temperatures should range from near 40°F in portions of the upper Great Lakes region to 80°F or higher in […]

The threat of frost and near-freezing temperatures will linger into Friday morning in parts of the Midwest and Northeast.  Meanwhile, a disorganized storm system will cross the western U.S. before intensifying on April 29-30 across the nation’s mid-section.   With the storm’s path across the central Plains and upper Midwest, rainfall could reach 1 to 3 inches in the north-central U.S., with some of the highest amounts expected on Friday […]

Market Wagon, an online farmers market, is delivering local food to hundreds of doorsteps. CEO and Co-Founder Nick Carter says he wanted to help family farmers succeed by getting their products directly to consumers. “I’m a farmer myself, so this is a business of passion. I started this business because I didn’t want to be the last Carter to farm on our farm,” he says. “Because of the market that […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or below-normal temperatures in the North and Far West, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail from the central and southern Rockies to the middle and southern Atlantic States.  Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across most of the country should contrast with ongoing below-normal precipitation in much of the Southwest. ...