Soybean production and demand are currently being heavily debated in today’s trade. With this in mind, I thought it was good timing to reflect back on how this crop came about here in the U.S. and how quickly South American production has expanded. U.S. farmers are expected to produce over +4.2 billion bushels of …
How Soybeans Finally Became a Major Crop in America Read More »
Samuel Leeds Allen was the founder of S.L. Allen & Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the Flexible Flyer sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment. For over one hundred years these products were the best-selling and most famous American sleds and market gardening tools available. During …
According to a study from the University of Colorado Boulder, the number of farms globally will shrink in half by 2100, as the size of the existing farms will double. Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the study is the first to track the number and size of farms year-over-year, from the 1960s and projecting …
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Wild boar, wild pigs, feral hogs, razorbacks – call them what you will, these invasive pigs are a $2.5 billion problem for US crops, livestock, and forests. An estimated 6 million wild boar have made themselves at home in at least 35 states now. The beasts can grow to more than 200 pounds and come …
Have You Ever Eaten “Wild Boar”… This Ranch Sells The Meat! Read More »
This was sent my way the other day and I thought I would share. I did some digging and found it was written by Amanda Radke over at BEEF Daily the full article is titled “Hormones by the numbers: Stats to share with consumers”. I encourage you to read the full blog post. Below is …
Very Interesting Insight… Battling Food Propaganda Read More »
US cropland values for 2023 averaged $5,460 per acre, an increase of +$410 per acre, or +8.1%, from 2021, and +33% higher than the average of $4,100 in 2020. In fact, cropland values had been stuck at around $4,100 since 2014, before seeing the first significant gain (+7.8%) in 2021 and obviously making further gains …
It is no secret that farm production expenses are at nosebleed levels and a new report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) puts some hard numbers to this cold truth. In its annual “Farm Production Expenditures” report, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) found that production costs in 2022 climbed to an …
Record Farm Production Expenses Will Be Somewhat Slow to Come Down Read More »
Controversy surrounding the use of glyphosate in food production systems remains a hot topic of debate in the US and around the world. Consumers claim to want food free from “chemicals,” policymakers continue to push for more “sustainable” farming practices, and special interest groups keep raising fears about health consequences, all of which have kept …
Today, the agricultural and aviation communities quietly celebrate the 102nd anniversary of the first use of the airplane for crop dusting. On this day in 1921, Army Air Corps pilot Lieutenant John A. Macready, piloting a specially modified Curtiss JN4 Jenny, spread lead arsenate over a six-acre grove of 6,000 catalpa trees at Postmaster Harry …
Vietnam has approved the commercial use of two locally-made vaccines for African swine fever (ASF). The vaccines, both of which was developed in collaboration with researchers from the United States Agricultural Research Institute (ARS), are the first to ever be approved anywhere in the world for commercial use against the deadly pig virus. The vaccines …
