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Deadline for USDA’s Climate-Smart Commodities Approaching
The deadline for the USDA’s second round of funding for Climate-Smart Commodities is Friday, June 10th. This funding pool is for partners proposing projects between $250,000 and $5 million.
The proposals should emphasize the enrollment of small and-or underserved producers, and-or monitoring, reporting, and verification activities developed at minority-serving institutions.
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More Farmers Adding Fall Cover Crops to Fields
Cover crops are an increasingly popular management practice farmers use to provide seasonal living cover between their primary commodity cash crops. Farmers often plant cover crops in the fall to provide winter cover for soil that otherwise would be bare
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Prescribed Fire Processes In National Forests
Prescribed fires are one tool in the toolbox of land managers, such as the US Forest Service, to mitigate future wildfire incidents and foster improved forest health. Its a method that goes as planned almost 99% of the time. Yet, as US Forest Service Chief Randy Moore recently explained, "We have noticed that there may be a slight trend in the number of fires that are escaping containment
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Arkansas to Host Next Farm Bill Field Hearing
Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member John Boozman say the committee will hold a field hearing in Arkansas on Friday, June 17th. The hearing is designed to get input from agricultural producers and stakeholders as the process of writing the next farm bill gets underway
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U.S. Files 2nd USMCA Dispute
In early May, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told his Canadian counterpart:
"...we were very disappointed, greatly disappointed, in the Canadian response..." to the successful U.S. challenge to Canada's dairy tariff rate quota policies within the USMCA
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Co-ops Can Lead the Way for On-Farm Private Broadband
As American agriculture grapples with scarce labor and increasing costs, one solution could lie in precision agriculture applications that can maximize output while reducing costs. Crop and livestock producers can supercharge operational efficiency with advanced precision technologies such as data analytics, connected equipment, robotics and automation
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Additional Flexibilities For Dairy & Livestock Producers
Starting July 1st, livestock and dairy producers will see greater flexibilities in three insurance products for the 2023 crop year.
"Dairy revenue protection, this change allows people some flexibility to go back and look at the production from a previous quarter
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Over 40 Groups Ask USTR for Tariff Relief
A diverse group of more than 40 American food and agriculture leaders sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on tariffs. The groups are asking for the suspension, reduction, or elimination of tariffs to ease the burden of retaliatory tariffs on rural America
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Record May First Cattle Feedlot Inventory
USDA is reporting that the nation's cattle feed lots on May 1st were feeding 12 million head.
"Which was the highest May 1st number since the series began in 1996."
And 2% above May 1st a year ago. USDA livestock analyst Shayle Shagam said that's partly of the result of large numbers of placements of cattle into feed lots during March, and now during April, placements were 1
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Producers Can Request Voluntary CRP Termination
The USDA will allow participants in CRP to request voluntary termination if they are in the final year of a CRP contract. They can make that request following the end of the primary nesting season for the fiscal year 2022. Participants approved for this one-time, voluntary termination don’t have to repay rental payments. It’
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