Incredible but real! 80,000 Chickens Survived the EF-3 Tornado in Louin, MS!
An EF-3 tornado in Louin, Mississippi, June 18, 2023, also leveled a large poultry farm, leaving an estimated 80,000 chickens unsheltered.
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Cleaning the Corral and Answering Your Hay Questions
Cleaning the Corral and Answering Your Hay Questions | Farmer Tyler Ranch
NFU Safety on the Farm: Grain Bins & Augers
Grain handling in bins can become routine and when a worker is in a hurry an accident can happen. Sadly, year after year, people who enter grain bins are trapped and engulfed in grain resulting in suffocation. The number of grain bin fatalities can be greatly reduced if farmers and their workers get proper training and follow grain bin safety procedures.
Farm Safety: Climbing Feed Bins Safely
Poultry farmers already know that climbing feed bins can be dangerous. In fact, accidents that happen on farms across the world are most attributed to slips, trips and falls. So today, Jason Jackson shares some helpful tips to ensure you and the people you work with stay as safe as possible when working on bins.
India to remove retaliatory tariffs on some U.S. ag products
India has agreed to drop retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. ag exports, providing additional market opportunities for American farmers. Dave Salmonsen, senior director of government affairs with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the agreement is a win for producers. “It was an extra 20% import duty. India has their base tariffs, they added 20% more for various products.” The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office said Thursday India cut tariffs placed […]
Cattle, lean hog futures mixed heading into the weekend
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures were mixed ahead of the USDA’s Cattle on Feed report, which was out after the close, and feeders were up sharply on the drop in corn. August live was down $.37 at $170.77 and October was $.17 lower at $174.50. August feeders were up $3.27 at $233.95 and September was $3.17 higher at $237.70.Boxed beef cutout values closed lower. Choice closed $.46 […]
Congressman calls for broken broadband fix
A Wisconsin Congressman is critical of how broadband expansion has failed to progress in rural areas. Third District Republican Derrick Van Orden told a House Ag Committee hearing on closing the digital divide in rural America that government and private sector sources have spent a lot of money without delivering enough service. He compared the cost of broadband expansion to the inflation-adjusted cost of putting the first man on the […]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: June 23, 2023
Jul. corn closed at $6.30 and 3/4, down 29 and 3/4 centsJul. soybeans closed at $14.94 and 1/2, down 6 centsJul. soybean meal closed at $410.70, down $14.00Jul. soybean oil closed at 57.94, up 217 pointsJul. wheat closed at $7.33 and 1/4, down 5 and 3/4 centsAug. live cattle closed at $170.77, down 37 centsAug. feeder cattle closed at $233.95, up $3.27Jul. ...
