CRISPR results are identical to results of conventional breeding, and it's nearly impossible to differentiate from conventional vs CRISPR. The breeding tool is also having an impact on the apprehension of GMOs.
With the impending snowstorm in the upper Midwest and Northern Plains, it may seem like the 2023 planting season will be off to a slow start. However, in states like Illinois and Missouri, planting has already started.
The company is growing green bell peppers, corn and colored bell peppers in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, with green bell peppers having the biggest increase, says sales representative Marco Serrano.
High input prices continue to be a pain point for farmers planning their 2023 crop needs. Experts say the price of natural gas isn’t the only driver fueling the market as farmers look to book their fall needs.
All farmers suffer injuries, but the unbreakable Ward Henry was a breed apart: drill rollover, shooting, anaphylactic shock, amputation, and PTO mangling.
The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child's toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper's last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.
Sacrifice: Joseph Sparacio will plant no seed and tend no crops in 2020. Instead, the farmer-patriot has left behind everything he loves to answer the call of duty.
What sex-crazed, eating machine gorges on a portion of profit from every farm, ranch, dairy, storage bin, hog barn, feed mill and grain elevator on the planet? Guess rat, and guess right.
Stover's Farm Market and U-Pic is running in Berrien Springs, Mich. Customers are coming to buy and pick as Stover says the blueberry crop is a good one this year.
The Voice of the Farmer is a new exhibit located on the National Mall.
It's just one component of a larger initiative called, “America’s Conservation Ag. Movement.”
There’s a new nod to farmers, ranchers and growers. The Voice of the Farmer is a brand new exhibit in Washington D.C. which celebrates agriculture and puts it on full display.
Debt-to-asset ratios are on the rise, working capital is eroding and farmers’ sentiments are on the decline. Despite the negativity surrounding prices and outlooks, Famer Mac is providing a voice of optimism.
Jay and Cara Myers of Colfax, North Dakota are no strangers of technology. Farming in the state can be challenging due to a smaller window to plant and harvest. That’s why these 2014 Top Producer of the Year Candidates want to make every acre count. As the remaining bushels of the 2017 crop gets shut in the bin, this North Dakota farm family is turning toward more pressing issues. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben has the story.
A report last week from Mighty Earth, a campaign of the Center for International Policy, took a break from criticizing farmers and ranchers that raise livestock for meat, and instead turned their attention to the meat companies and feed suppliers (ie. crop farmers), asking them to provide “pollution-free” feed.
The gospel of high yields at all costs has a new apostate. A switch to a no till cover crop system changed Johnny Hunter's entire management dynamic and provided a booster shot to weed control, irrigation efficiency and overall soil health.
Farmers may be too distracted by the latest painfully low corn and soybean prices to notice it, but their grain shipments are enjoying a bargain on barge rates these days.
They don't want to admit it, but we know it's true. There are countless organizations that hate humanity enough to do everything in their power to put a stop to anything that might benefit it. Their focus is on the use of science to improve and protect our lives.
Millions of bushels of temporary and emergency grain storage have been piled in tarps and the ground this year. Those are bushels that will eventually need to be moved by truck, rail or barge. Lockmasters worry about how smooth moving 2014’s massive crop will be.
The state now has the final piece of funding needed to rehab a stretch of railway that will open up grain-shipping opportunities for farmers in south-central South Dakota, officials announced this week.
Midwestern lawmakers and farmers are shifting the attention of a locomotive and railcar shortage problem to Washington this week with legislation, a committee hearing and meetings with decision-makers.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple opened a federal hearing in Fargo about rail service delays in the upper Plains by reading a letter from a grain elevator that said Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. was 525 cars behind in its service.
Truck drivers in Argentina, the world’s third-largest exporter of corn and soybeans, say theft and extortion are on the rise at the main port, Rosario.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Grand Rapids, accuses Johnston, Iowa-based DuPont Pioneer and two recruiters of violating federal wage and migrant labor laws.
BNSF Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. struggled with "greater-than-normal" demand from shippers of coal, oil and Midwest crops, USDA said last week.
Such crop switching is one sign of a sweeping transformation going on in California--the nation’s biggest agricultural state by value--driven by a three-year drought that climate scientists say is a glimpse of a drier future.
The company posted a 12 percent drop in fiscal fourth- quarter profit as its trading and processing business continued to feel the effects of drought in the U.S. and a shortage of railcars.
The delays have stretched dangerously close to grain harvesting season, when barges need to carry wheat, soybeans and corn from throughout the Midwest down to the Gulf Coast for export.
The most severe rail car shortage in history caused backups, sky-high leasing costs for cars and grain shipments that ground to a halt. Ultimately, farmers bore the cost in the form of lower grain prices.
Spies in the furrows. Rat smells a cig. Golden banana agoniste. Water salvation from a slingshot. Cattle rustlers and AK-47s. A pig's life. Turning milk into beer.
Bioplastics and biochemicals made from the sugar and sometimes protein of corn, soybeans and other crops will likely never replace ethanol as one of corn’s key markets.