This year, when alfalfa growers start seeing the menacing cotton root rot showing up in their fields, they can rest assured that almost 120 years after it was first characterized, Texas A&M AgriLife researchers have helped find a control for the fungus.

You may have missed the release of a farmer survey about ag data during the middle of the first COVID-19 wave.

We hope you and your families are doing well. As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches on, DFC continues to work with government and provincial milk boards on your behalf to ensure that dairy farmers can perform continue to meet Canada’s market needs for high-quality and nutritious milk and dairy products.

Forage quality is the Achilles’ heel for any ruminant nutritionist. The better the forage coming out of storage, the better the nutritionist.

In a typical year, when the calendar flips to July I would be flipping through my stash of pie recipes to decide which ones I should enter in the competition at the local fair. (Sadly, it has been cancelled in 2020, like most other events.)

There are instances daily of people coming together to support those in need. While there are a multitude of challenges facing us today, La Crosse Seed recently began collecting stories of communities coming together to help struggling farm families across the country.

Optimal forage management, from harvest to feeding, is essential to improve milk production, minimize health problems and increase farm profitability.

When we explained in our last blog post the recent Court of Appeals decision that vacated the registration of three dicamba-based products, we mentioned that one possibility for answering the “What happens now?” question was for the EPA to issue a cancellation order that would allow end users to use existing stocks of the products.

Internet buying makes it all too easy to push products on unsuspecting public – and Amazon and eBay got caught.

Back in February, the USDA was projecting a $3.1 billion increase in net farm income this year. Then COVID-19 emerged. Prices for hogs, cattle and dairy collapsed. Ethanol returns dipped into the red. Futures for staple commodities like corn and soybeans plummeted.