Virtual events and e-commerce have become more important to wineries during the pandemic, and agricultural business experts say wineries have been working to transition their marketing plans.
The USDA Economic Research Service updated their net farm income forecast for 2019, now expects net farm income to increase $4.0 billion or 4.8% from 2018 to $88 billion.
The U.S. and Guatemala are working on a program to boost H-2A workers from that country, to stem what the Department of Homeland Security calls irregular migration patterns.
The Wisconsin Dept of Ag reports the loss of another 212 dairy farms in the first quarter of 2019. On April 1, the number of licensed dairy farms in Wisconsin stood at 7,898.
Nothing “chicken” about these French fowl.That’s the feeling after a hungry fox snuck into a chicken coop in France and got a lot more than it bargained for.
Cainthus uses facial recognition software to get animal information. Net cash farm income is forecasted to decrease. UC-Davis developed a new culture system.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expecting exports to grow to more than $1 billion in 2017 with dairy making up a big chunk of the growth.
The latest USDA export projections look for dairy to grow by $500 million to $5.3 billion.
Other dairy-exporting countries are expecting to reduce their outputs in 2017 which will lead to higher prices around the world and higher U...
Last Friday the National FFA Organization announced that they have a record student membership of 649,355, up from 629,367 in 2015 an increase of 3 percent. The number of FFA chapters grew from 7,757 to 7,859. The top six student membership states are Texas, California, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio and Missouri...
Hog prices have collapsed to levels far below break-even reports Purdue Economist. There is worry that there are more hogs headed to market this fall than available packing capacity, and the latest USDA inventory indicates there are more hogs than had been anticipated...
The largest agriculture cooperative predicts more pain ahead for the industry. Carl Casale, CEO of CHS, Inc. says net farm income is falling faster than cash receipts indicating that fixed costs are too high. During the National Grain and Feed Association convention in San Diego, he told attendees the U...