Month: August 2024

Back in 2021, as the world was struggling with the pandemic-related supply chain meltdown, one of the critical raw materials that became very hard to find was rubber. While supply chain issues tied to shipping snags have since been resolved, natural rubber supplies remain under threat from a combination of disease and shifting climate patterns. …

How Dandelions and Sunflowers Could Secure the World’s Natural Rubber Supplies Read More »

Agricultural and aviation communities quietly celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the first use of the airplane for crop dusting. This week 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 Carver’s farm in …

Looking Back at Our First Crop Dusters… Dedicated to One of Our Fallen Farming Families Read More »

Canola is becoming a more popular crop with US farmers as energy producers look to increase the oilseed’s role as a renewable fuels feedstock. The latest USDA data shows US farmers planted a record high of 2.66 million acres in 2024, up from 2.34 million in 2023 and 1.71 million in 2014. And canola acres …

Why Canola is Becoming the Answer for Some US Producers Read More »