While the turkey makes the greatest sacrifice on Thanksgiving Day, the cooks hard at work in the kitchen for hours aren’t far behind. Take time in the days ahead of the day to prepare items like pies and desserts.
Of the nearly 1,000 responses six different sides rose to the top: salad, West; green beans/casserole, Midwest; cornbread, South; rolls/biscuits, squash, Great Lakes Region; Northeast; and mac and cheese, Southeast.
Thursday BASF officially closed on Nunhems, Bayer’s vegetable seeds business. This is one of many assets the company has acquired from Bayer this past year.
Understory, a weather network, edge computing and machine-learning company, together with Monsanto, will provide localized weather information to Argentinian farmers.
Working with people outside of the family on a family farm can present challenges. On the Klein’s Seymour, Ill. farm, they strive to make sure everyone feels heard.
One of the biggest challenges of working with family is you know them as family first—all their flaws, history and tendencies. With that in mind, it’s often difficult to treat them as a professional colleague.
When it rains it pours, and in the Pacific Northwest that means rail transportation hasn’t been able to efficiently haul grain. From Washington to northern California to parts of Montana, excess snow and rain have brought power outages and damaged rail tracks, limited transport to export markets. When transportation issues persist expect a widening basis, says Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soy Transport Coalition.
Fewer Mississippi producers are looking at grain sorghum as a crop rotation option since an introduced pest became a major problem, a trend Mississippi State University researchers are working to reverse.
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Australia is expected to see higher rainfall than average from May to July, watering crops and boosting the fortunes of farmers in one of the world's top exporters of commodities ranging from grains to beef.
The number of grain dust explosions in the United States fell to a 10-year low in 2016, but two of the incidents resulted in the first reported fatalities since 2013, according to an annual report released by Purdue Uni
