BUSINESS
Dairy prices are up 27% over last year, and beef prices are up nearly 20%. But, 2012 might be a different story as feed costs increase.
Wisconsin’s farm crops are flourishing, yet agribusinesses are worried about the outlook for ethanol, a corn-based biofuel, and the global economy.
A report blasting Georgia’s environmental oversight of large livestock farms has raised concerns about potential contamination of Georgia waterways with chemicals from manure.
Kraft has increased advertising and used other ways to blunt the increase in commodity price costs.
Method saves fuel, labor and equipment costs, also reduces soil disturbance and dust.
When American farmers are allowed to compete in international markets, they can win. We already export to China, Japan, Mexico and Europe, and now need to knock down barriers to our exports in other countries. The pending Free Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama would allow Ohio farmers to compete on a level playing field in these important markets, and I urge the U.S. Congress to immediately approve and implement these agreements.
U.S. Department of Transportation walks away from creating new regulations that would be detrimental to agriculture.
Porter Family honored with Agricultural Environmental Management Award.
Any large-scale expansion of U.S. ag exports will only be possible if the nation can get more commodities and farm products to market, something some experts say the country already struggles to accomplish.
EMMETSBURG, IOWA - Each fall in corn country, big combines prowl through the fields, stripping the valuable kernels from ears and spitting out bits of cornstalk, leaves and empty cobs.The residue, which used to lie on the ground and rot, has become a money crop for the next generation of biofuel.Poet LLC, the nation’s leading ethanol producer, says it is determined to open a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in 2013 next to its existing corn-ethanol plant in this northern Iowa community. The $250 million project could be the first such plant in the nation. Last month, the U.S. Energy Department conditionally committed to a $105 million loan guarantee for it."The technology is there -- it is definitely to the point where we can build the best-in-class plant, and the trick is getting these plants up,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the Advanced Ethanol Council, which represents many of the approximately dozen U.S. companies working to commercialize cellulosic ethanol.
At $23.62 per cwt., June 2011’s overall monthly dairy cost of production is the highest since 2008.
The well-monitoring effort is the most ambitious in the history of California’s dairy industry, and is the first such program of this scale in the U.S.
After focusing on moving earth for agriculture and industry for most of its 174-year history, Deere and Co. now is fighting for its place in the skies.
Grain futures prices traded on the Dalian and Zhengzhou commodity exchanges are expected to maintain at high levels though China has achieved an increase in summer grain output for the eighth year running this year, analysts say.
The following information was released by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri:Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Howard County, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to operating two cattle fraud schemes in which 28 victims, including The Callaway Bank in Fulton, Mo., as well as numerous individuals, lost nearly $8 million.Kevin Ray Asbury, 44, formerly of Howard County, waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Matt J. Whitworth to a federal information that charges him with bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
Fair Oaks Farms’ new fleet will be nation’s largest long-haul operation using renewable energy.
The first six months of 2011 have brought image after image of human misery and ecological upheaval.Droughts, wildfires, twisters, floods, heat waves, extreme blizzards - just about every natural disaster you can imagine has hit just about every place on the planet.How to handle them, survive them and how to clean up and rebuild after them are among the many issues that will be on the agenda for the 21st World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), to be held in Toronto Sunday through Wednesday.
KENTWOOD, La., June 14 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:Louisiana dairyfarmers say this was beginning to look like the year they would make a little money, but now they are not so sure.
OTTAWA -- With rare exceptions, discussions of food policy in Canada are limited to the joys of eating organic and how hard-pressed farmers need more help from the government. What you never hear is this: As a result of rising population and wealth, global demand for food is soaring and the world faces a food crisis unlike anything seen since the 1970s if food production does not grow rapidly. Canada is among the very few nations with the capacity to dramatically boost production.But we’re not. In fact, Canadian agriculture is stagnant. And politicians will not even discuss how we can change that.
Brad Kamerman’s dairyfarm sits along a dusty and rolling road in western Gallatin County, his black-and-white Holstein cows visible to the occasional passerby. Milking there starts daily at 3 a.m. as cows file into pens where rubber tubes simultaneously do the work of a several farmhands, pumping the milk into refrigerated vats.
This was supposed to be a big year. Crop prices were up. The weather had cooperated, mostly, in the fall and the spring. Mid-South farmers had their fields ready and were looking to cash in. In fact, a lot of farmers were depending on 2011’s crop to make up for the low prices and bad weather of the past two years. Then the water came.
May marks the end of the driest eight-month period on record.
Corn prices fell Friday on concerns about global demand after the government reported a drop in export sales.
News of Black Sea export bans being lifted for the 201112 season has stirred the commodity market.
Class III futures average $18.89 June through December on today’s close.
The “technical efficiency” of larger herds was slightly higher than medium and small farms following the MILC payments.
The request would increase the current cheese price minimum by $1/cwt.
Sales of organic foods appear robust across Europe and the United States, despite weak economic conditions and rising inflation in many countries. And that is attracting more interest and activity from investors, who see potential in mergers through economies of scale, especially in Europe’s more fragmented market.
National Corn Growers Association says new peer-reviewed research disproves anti-ethanol myth.