Dairy Markets seemed to have found a floor, for now. www.dairyherd.com reports, on the CME Spot auction, Block Cheese went down $0.02, settling out at $1.64 ¼ with 9 lots traded.
With the trouble in hiring enough people during harvest season, the USDA has invested nearly $300 million into automation and mechanization of specialty-crop production.
**The need for high-speed internet in rural America is getting increased attention from the White House and Congress as they look at passing a sweeping infrastructure initiative next year.
But rural communications carriers are trying to draw attention to a huge hurdle toward expanding rural broadband, a shortfall in financial help from the Universal Service Fund run by the FCC...