3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (430+ words) As producers perform maintenance on roadway ditches by mowing or cutting them for hay, Angie Johnson, North Dakota State University Extension farm and ranch safety specialist, urges farmers and ranchers to put safety first. “Ditches pose many hazards when it…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (661+ words) And it will grow over the next six to nine months. While an El Niño is a regular climatological pattern occurring every few years, a Super El Niño — defined when sea-surface temperature anomalies reach or exceed 2 degrees Celsius — is much…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (277+ words) The National Sorghum Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2026-27 academic scholarships, recognizing three students pursuing careers that could help shape the future of agriculture through research, policy and environmental stewardship. The foundation awarded three $1,500 scholarships for the upcoming academic…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1130+ words) WATKINSVILLE, Georgia — One of the South’s classic cash crops, cotton, is known as a hardy, forgiving plant, but a record-breaking spring drought has put this year’s crop to the test. In April 2026, the National Integrated Drought Information System reported moderate…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (221+ words) American Farmland Trust has once again launched its America’s Farmers Market Celebration, an effort to support and celebrate the role that farmers markets play in their communities. This is the event’s 18th year, and there is a pool of $15,000 in monetary…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (161+ words) However, some of the more vocal Democrats on the committee, such as Cory Booker from New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, are not supportive of the new text of the bill, saying it doesn’t go far enough in a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (617+ words) Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that on August 24, a “phased reopening” of specific southern border port offices for livestock trade will commence at the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry, and possibly later after completing the “operational steps necessary” at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (370+ words) Should a farmer in Iowa be told how to farm by the California government? Not if the Save Our Bacon Act has anything to say about it. The restrictions don’t simply affect producers in California; any sale of pork, eggs…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (486+ words) As international trade, input prices, and labor issues weighed on producers through the first half of 2026, one area that remained remarkably stable was confidence in the farmland market. Benchmark farmland values held their ground in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (442+ words) AGDAILY Few ingredients are as easy to overlook as the potato. It is cheap, unglamorous and everywhere, which is precisely why its story in Poland is so easy to miss. For more than three centuries the potato has shaped how…...