Pioneer breaks ground for soybean facility in Missouri
NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Pioneer Hi-Bred executives broke ground May 17 on a $55 million parent and commercial soybean seed production plant in New...
Retiring farmers can get additional CRP payments if helping new farmer
WASHINGTON -- The USDA is offering a new Transition Incentives Program (TIP) to encourage retired or retiring farmers to transition their land to beginning...
Planting (or replanting) woes? Better tell Farm Service Agency
COLUMBUS -- When bad weather prevents planting or damages crops, farmers must report the acreage to the local USDA Farm Service Agency office within...
China reopens market to U.S. pork
WASHINGTON -- China gave official notice May 14 that it is accepting shipments of U.S. pork.Pork produced on or after May 1 now can...
Purdue’s Chris Hurt: Stronger prices not likely to last for cattle
Cattle prices to remain high this spring, with summer prices in the low- to mid-$90 range per hundredweight.
Pioneer’s ‘refuge in a bag’ product gets EPA OK
WILMINGTON, Del. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted commercial registration of Optimum AcreMax 1 insect protection for Pioneer brand corn hybrids. This...
U.S. and Brazil may be inching closer to resolution in cotton dispute
WASHINGTON — The United States and the government of Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a fund for technical assistance and capacity building...
United Producers offering energy risk management options
COLUMBUS -- United Producers Inc. announced the launch of risk management solutions on energy, a program that will allow farmers to use options to...
Biotech crops helpful, but take management to remain effective
WASHINGTON -- Many U.S. farmers who grow genetically modified crops are realizing substantial economic and environmental benefits -- lower production costs, fewer pest problems,...
Michael Bailey named executive director of Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Robert Boggs, chairman of the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, has named Michael D. Bailey as...