Mahindra Launches 11th Annual Military Salute Giveaway to Thank Our Military Mahindra Ag North America (MAgNA) announced the return of an exciting tradition: the annual Mahindra Military Salute Giveaway. This year’s giveaway features a Mahindra 1120 tractor with a loader and...

In what I consider the golden age of great Saturday morning cartoons, when a villain threatened to disrupt peace and harmony on the planet, a call was made to the Hall of Justice and the Super Friends assembled a...

Variety selection is one of the most important decisions farmers make all year. Today’s varieties offer multiple levels of disease resistance as well as possible root knot nematode resistance and other important traits. The best variety choice is always...

Researchers take proactive measures to protect the U.S. peanut industry from this devastating fungal disease. Peanut smut, a soilborne fungal disease caused by Thecaphora frezzii, was first described in 1962 infecting wild peanut in Brazil. The disease did not appear...

For U.S. agricultural exporters, the past four years held many challenges, pandemic disruptions, wars, transportation troubles and higher costs, rising farmer input costs, weather devastation, weak export market economies, strength of the U.S. dollar and continued uncertainty in the...

United States Representative Austin Scott, Tifton, Georgia, said it best, “The economy in rural America starts and stops with the American farmer. Amid the deafening noise inside political echo chambers and ceaseless squabbling of Congress is one truth that...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Cotton-and-peanut producers continually look for new ways to maximize efficiencies while growing two high-value crops that compete for time and resources. As growers finalize planting decisions for 2025, many have turned to PhytoGen® brand varieties because of...

Congress Provides Economic, Disaster Assistance On Dec. 21, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 10545 by a vote of 366-34 that included a continuing resolution for FY25 appropriations funding, a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill, $10...

⋅ BY REBEKAH HALL ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture LeadAR, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s leadership program, is accepting applications for its next class of leaders. The in-depth learning experience covers economic and social issues...

The Louisiana Agricultural Technology & Management Conference sponsored by the Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association will be held Feb. 12-14, 2025, at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, Louisiana. In addition to the general sessions where presentations such as the Endangered Species...

Despite significant progress in preventing peanut allergy through early introduction, recent research has found that the message isn’t getting to new parents who need to hear it. That’s the challenge for University of Georgia Cooperative Extension nutrition and health...

Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. Acquires Tiger-Sul Tessenderlo Group announced that its subsidiary, Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc., has acquired Tiger-Sul, a North American focused provider of sulfur-based fertilizer products, from Platte River Equity. The acquisition closed in November 2024. The acquisition strengthens TKI’s specialty...

High-school student Harrison Carter is paving the way for the future of farming and manufacturing through a unique program. Tackling complex global challenges through lab work, data analysis and critical thinking might seem daunting, but high school students like Harrison...

Good harvest weather contributed to the Virginia-Carolina’s above-average yielding crop. A wide range of environmental conditions faced farmers in the Virginia-Carolina region in 2024. Rainfall and temperatures in May were adequate for good stand establishment and early season growth says...

The 2025 version of the Peanut Disease Risk Index, known as Peanut Rx, contains changes to the cultivar/variety section. There have been few changes to the index except in terms of varietal point values and also minor updates in...