Warming temperatures are expanding the range of a South American pest that has devastated corn crops in Argentina recently. Researchers at University of Missouri Extension have confirmed the first case of “corn stunt disease,” which is transmitted by the “corn leafhopper,” and follows confirmed cases in Oklahoma and Texas as well. Corn leafhopper and corn …
As of August 2024, members of Congress have released three separate proposals for the upcoming farm bill. The House Agriculture Committee released the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, which was advanced through committee with bipartisan support, but has not yet been introduced on the House floor. Additionally, both the Senate Agriculture Majority …
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve introduced the Lezak Recurring Cycle methodology. This week we’ll showhow the LRC is changing the mindset of weather prediction in the agricultural sector by enablingprecise and informed farming decisions, with forecasts reliable up to nearly a year in advance. In the drought-ridden 2021 growing season, the LRC model …
Backyard chickens were all the rage with urbanites during the Covid-19 pandemic. For some, those chickens acted as a sort of gateway drug that spurred a craze for other farm animals, only in miniature form. Breeders say the rising popularity of these mini versions is driven in part by a similar rise in the “country” …
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There was a lot of excitement about the potential boost to farm income when the US introduced a national initiative to exponentially increase the production of “sustainable aviation fuel”, aka SAF. That excitement has turned to frustration, though, with farmers largely left on their own to navigate the crop possibilities. Researchers at the University of …
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Kevin Van Trump and Andy Daniels sit down with Emily French to discuss current thoughts regarding longer term outlook on soybean prices heading into 2025, trading weather threats moving forward, opinions on grain demand projections for 2024/2025, sub $9.00 soybean futures on the horizon, Chinese demand for US grains over the next decade, loopholes in …
The National FFA Organization, often referred to simply as FFA, has been helping America’s youth prepare for leadership roles and careers in agriculture since 1928. Earlier this month, the group announced it had reached a record-breaking milestone of having more than one million FFA members: 1,027,273. The seeds for today’s FFA were planted in 1925 …
The last installment of this report took a contrarian view to the belief that a Pacific war is inevitable. If peace prevails, your author believes, many Chinese businesses, including agribusinesses that are discounted for geopolitical reasons will climb in value relative to their Western peers. The report examined a number of Chinese firms including Alibaba …
Last week, we introduced the Lezak Recurring Cycle (LRC) methodology, a weather prediction model that Gary Lezak has been refining over the past three decades. This week, we’ll explore how the LRC is transforming the agricultural sector by enabling precise and informed decisions through forecasts that are reliable up to nearly a year in advance. …
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USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) recently did a deep dive into the US dairy industry and the significant changes it has undergone over the past two decades. One of the biggest takeaways from the research is that while US dairy farm numbers have decreased significantly, milk production has increased thanks to advances in technologies and …
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