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UI To Hold Succession Planning Meetings
UI To Hold Succession Planning Meetings
UI To Hold Succession Planning Meetings
With a new year, many in farm country are going over the books, looking for places to save, what equipment needs to be purchased, and what needs to happen to make the year ahead the best possible.  Joel Packham is encouraging farmers to include Farm and Ranch Succession Planning to that list.  In an e...
USDA: Conservation Tillage Increasing
USDA: Conservation Tillage Increasing
USDA: Conservation Tillage Increasing
The share of acreage for major cash crops—wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton—that are planted using conservation tillage has increased over the past two decades in the United States.  According to ERS, farmers reported employing conservation tillage on the majority of acres of wheat at 68%, 76% of corn acres, and 74% of soybeans.  Conservation tillag...
USDA Updates 2021 Farm Income Forecast
USDA Updates 2021 Farm Income Forecast
USDA Updates 2021 Farm Income Forecast
USDA’s Economic Research Service updated farm sector profit projections Wednesday, which are expected to increase in 2021. ERS forecasts inflation-adjusted net cash farm income, which is gross cash income minus cash expenses, to increase $12.6 bil ...
Science Is Key To Increasing Food Production, WSU Scientist Says
Science Is Key To Increasing Food Production, WSU Scientist Says
Science Is Key To Increasing Food Production, WSU Scientist Says
Some experts say to feed the world's population by 2050, the farming community will need to boost production by 60%; and that includes livestock production. Washington State University Livestock Scientist, Dr. Jon Oatley said on the animal side it's not only production that's going to count ...
Building a Coalition of Sustainable Production
Building a Coalition of Sustainable Production
Building a Coalition of Sustainable Production
It was an effort launched last September at the United Nations Food Systems Summit. "The sustainable productivity growth in food security and resource conservation coalition; the SPG Coalition," Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh noted during a recent World Food Price virtual briefing ...
Students Gather to Ensure the Future of Agriculture
Students Gather to Ensure the Future of Agriculture
Students Gather to Ensure the Future of Agriculture
This week, 44 FFA members have gather in Indianapolis to discuss how agriculture will play a pivotal role in their future. It’s all part of the New Century Farmer conference, an opportunity for FFA members who plan to remain in production agriculture to work on their secession plans for success. Dur ...
Idaho Ag Looking At Address Land Lost To Urban Sprawl
Idaho Ag Looking At Address Land Lost To Urban Sprawl
Idaho Ag Looking At Address Land Lost To Urban Sprawl
It may be a slow process, but one that has many in the farming community concerned; the loss of farmland due to urban sprawl. According to the American Farmland Trust, between 2001-2016 eleven million acres of farmland was removed from production nationwide ...

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