Month: December 2019

Heather Fletcher, the new program lead for Ag Education on the Move, is prepared to work on growing the program founded by the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council. Fletcher says Ag Education on the Move will [Read More…]

A farm management analyst believes farmers will receive a third Market Facilitation Program payment early in 2020. Kent Thiesse with MinnStar Bank in south-central Minnesota says people in the know seem to be optimistic about [Read More…]

The USDA’s chief economist says the expected 80-billion dollars’ worth of agricultural purchases by the Chinese as part of the phase-one trade deals are within the realm of possibility.  Rob Johansson says 40-billion dollar a [Read More…]

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proposing to adjust membership on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board to reflect shifts in cattle inventory levels since the last board reapportionment in 2017. Under the proposal, total board [Read More…]

The states of Ohio, New Jersey, and Louisiana are the first to have their final state hemp plans approved by the USDA.  Several states already have hemp pilot programs, but Rob Richard with Wisconsin Hemp [Read More…]