100-Dollar-Ideas
The following information was released by the Nebraska Corn Board:While the drought is having a profound impact on crop production, thanks to ethanol production there is a larger and more flexible corn supply than was available during previous droughts of this magnitude.Today’s USDA report confirms what we already knew that the drought’s impact on supply and price will be felt by corn consumers around the world, stated Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) Executive Director Monte Shaw. Yet, the ag sector has seen droughts before, and it will survive again. This is a time when all of agriculture should pull together. Unfortunately, national livestock trade associations have chosen to politicize the on-going drought as part of their multi-year effort to return corn prices to $2 per bushel.* (see below) At times like this, it is important to look past the rhetoric to the facts. And the fact is that ethanol production provides a benefit to Midwestern livestock producers in many ways.
You can use a microwave to test the moisture content of forage before you ensile or bale.
USDA takes correction action concerning the Meatless Monday blunder.
Nationwide hay use this past winter was reduced compared to last year due to mild weather conditions and record high prices.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the United States’ cattle herd has shrunk to its smallest size in 60 years, mostly because of a severe drought that has ravaged the southern plains. Beef prices have gone up 17 percent as a result. In the pastures near Hallsburg,Texas, ranchers are hanging on desperately, hoping for rain.
The House voted 268-150 in favor of the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011; now it heads to the Senate.
The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011 now heads to the House floor with bipartisan support.
Research has found that producers’ attitudes toward the beef checkoff program remain stable and are favorable.
A record amount of corn was planted in Ohio this year, providing a sharp turnaround from a month ago when many farmers thought the entire season might get washed out by weeks of heavy rain.Some excellent weather in early June and increasingly advanced growing methods are credited with the change in fortunes.The amount of corn produced per acre isn’t expected to be at record levels because of the late start, but farmers and experts now think yields could at least be average.
The Agriculture Department would be barred, under language in a House appropriations bill, from proceeding with proposed marketing regulations opposed by major meatpackers and livestock trade groups.The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved the draft fiscal 2012 spending bill, including the provision, by voice vote on Tuesday. The bill would provide $17.3 billion in discretionary funds to the Agriculture Department, Food and Drug Administration and related agencies, a $2.6 billion cut from fiscal 2011. The measure also includes $108 billion in mandatory funding, almost 3 percent more than in fiscal 2011.The policy rider would bar the Agriculture Department’s Grain Inspection Stockyard and Packers Administration (GIPSA) from producing a regulation requiring meatpackers to report and justify pricing agreements with livestock producers. The proposed rule, unveiled last year, was written in response to a 2008 farm law (PL 110-246) directive to review marketing and competition issues in the livestock industry.
This lightweight, compact 24-row planter and applicator leave no tracks—and they don’t hog the road.
They say the Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric nutrient criteria is flawed.
The measure are meant to ensure humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle
There are no clear-cut timelines that dictate when to get involved during a difficult calving.
Farm Journal’s Washington Editor Roger Bernard is covering the event today.
EXPORTS of Australian beef to Russia have surged to 38,436 tonnes,as volumes to the US decline and exports to the Middle East are up 58 per cent year to date
If they want consolidation, weX_SQ_Xll give X_SQ_Xem consolidation, say feedyards whose goal is a fourth of Texas fed marketings
The U.S. government has refused the request made by the Belgian government to take two flocks of East Friesian sheep back to Belgium, one of the flock’s owners has told reporters.