Agriculture – Page 91 – The Van Trump Report

What You Need to Know… Significant Changes to the USDA’s Rules for GE Crops

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently finalized a major overhaul of biotech regulations that will exempt many genetic modifications from the lengthy regulatory approval process. This is the first significant change to the agency’s rules for GE crops since it was put in place over thirty years ago. USDA claims the “Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, …

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What You Need to Know About The Upcoming Cicada Season

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Cicadas are an annual “sound of summer” across many parts of the Midwest and East Coast but the chorus will be even louder than usual in some areas this year. Folks in Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia will see far more of the bugs this summer as Brood IX emerges from the ground after …

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Dairy Farmer Decides to Bottle His Own Milk Rather than Dump It. Sells Out in Hours.

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The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him. Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s. He sells …

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What’s Up with these Giant Asian Hornets?

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As if 2020 didn’t have enough apocryphal stories brewing, we now have the giant Asian Hornets to add to the mix. I’ve been seeing this story circulating around Facebook and other media sites and thought it was worth exploring and sharing some insight on this nasty looking insect. Having landed on American soil for the …

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What You Need to Know… Big Money Leasing Farmland to Solar Operators

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Solar is being installed at an increasing clip across the United States with large-scale projects looking to farms for the massive tracts of land needed for their development. In fact, I’ve personally spoken with and talked to several landowners who have recently inked longterm leases (10 to 30 years) on +800 acre tracts for between …

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New Report Shows Investing in Agricultural Research Delivers Long-Term Economic Benefits

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An interesting new report from the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation (SoAR) shows that investing in agricultural research results in a long-term economic boost for the farm industry. The report comes as U.S. farmers are beset by slew of economic complications and Congress works on additional stimulus measures to address the pandemic-related fallout as well …

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Cellular Meat is Headed Our Way… What You Need to Know!

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Most of us in the livestock industry have been shocked by the rising popularity of so-called fake meat products from the likes of Beyond Meat and Impossible that went mainstream last year. These “plant-based” products proved more popular among consumers than many had thought. But there is another threat that is gaining more traction that …

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Why I Continue to Hold a Bullish Position in Corn

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Corn bulls will be trying to hold some of yesterday’s gains. Perhaps increased Chinese buying and a bit of stabilization in crude oil can stop or slow some of the bleeding. I continue to hold a very small bullish position but have prepared myself mentally for the price to drop to sub-$3.00 per bushel. Many …

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New Study Says “Megadrought” is Underway in American West

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Nine Western states are currently in the midst of a historic “megadrought”, according to scientists at Columbia University who just published their findings in the journal Science. They say it’s the worst one in 500 years and has likely been ongoing since 2000. The researchers were studying the occurrence of megadroughts in the Western U.S., …

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Did You Know a Fatal Strain of Brid Flu was Confirmed Last Week in U.S.?

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The US Department of Agriculture last week reported a deadly case of H7N3 bird flu in a turkey flock in Chesterfield county, South Carolina. The virus killed 1,583 turkeys and the remaining 32,577 birds have since been euthanized. In a statement, USDA said there was no immediate public health concern and that no human cases …

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