Despite no Farm Bill, the U.S. Congress is at work on agricultural legislation.
The U.S. Congress recently passed legislation that included six appropriations packages: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies; Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies;...
The American Peanut Council is heading to South Korea as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agribusiness trade mission. APC applied for and was accepted to join the mission to Seoul in March led by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Affairs...
Farmers usually get excited about this time of the year. The smell of the fresh-turned dirt brings back the good old days when the forefathers felt that production of food, fiber, fuel and shelter were all positive goals that...
USDA Releases Prospective Plantings Report
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released the Prospective Plantings report in late March. The report provides estimates of U.S. farmers’ 2024 planting intentions based on surveys conducted during the first two...
Maybe it’s because I am getting older as are my parents or that I have now experience with a passing friend’s estate, but succession planning has been on my mind of late. It’s a complex process even with the...
Once a month, I get an enewsletter with the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer outlining current farmer sentiment. Although from the Midwest, the concerns are pretty universal throughout agriculture.
This month revealed a modest increase in farmer sentiment. When...
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service have broken ground on a new state-of-the-art research facility housing the Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory and the Crop Genetics and...
Time, thought and awareness can help prevent many problems with weed management.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
It was Marcus Tullious Cicero, a statesman, lawyer and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, who possibly first wrote,...
Peanut producers roll into 2024 with lower commodity prices and higher inflation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that farm income will drop 25% from last year, news that took center stage at their recent Agricultural Outlook Forum. The...
Sustainability Roundtable
Representatives from the manufacturing, shelling and grower segments of the peanut industry came together recently for a forum on sustainability. Highlighted were the efforts underway by the industry to capture metrics on sustainable practices. Hosted by the American...
AU-NPL 17 Helps Spread Risk
Planting season is just around the corner, and I feel that we might be able to get an earlier start this year as opposed to past years since Easter is earlier and we seem to...
“Deer are the new feral hogs,” is a sentiment heard from many Georgia farmers in the past few years. Damage from an increasing number of deer is impacting growers across multiple crops and causing economic losses into the thousands...
Questions and answers about calcium, a critical element needed in the top 4 inches of soil.
As a legume, peanuts use the symbiotic relationship with bacteria added as an inoculant to fix atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by the...
Three of these critical problems can only be tackled at planting.
⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅
One of the greatest mystery novelist’s later works in her series of Hercule Poirot stories is The Big Four. In this story, Agatha Christie has...
Check Soil Temperatures Before Planting
The 2023 growing season was another hot and dry year in Texas. Having one drought year is tough enough, but two consecutive years of drought made our lives very difficult. Under such challenging environmental conditions...
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