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Last August, a Georgia dairyman contacted Farrah Newberry with the Georgia Milk Producers after he was unable to acquire spare tires from a local dealer due to new EPD rule changes. Newberry contacted state regulators with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) to investigate the issue and found that the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) board was in the process of finalizing regulations for used tire disposal.
As a cash crop, all dry hay ranked as the third-highest valued U.S. crop in 2015, according to USDA’s annual crop values report, released Feb. 24, 2016.
More college students are majoring in agriculture studies than ever before – outpacing majors like computer science, engineering and public administration, and at higher rates than in the last 15 years. Bachelor’s degree recipients majoring in agriculture grew 39 percent in a five-year period (2008-2013), more than double the rate of bachelor’s degrees as a whole.
Chicago Fed: Farmland values, credit conditions feeling pressure
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago district farmland values were mostly lower ending the fourth quarter of 2015, pressured by lower crop and livestock prices, according to David Oppedahl, business economist, writing the bank’s AgLetter.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Feb. 12 the availability of $1.85 million in funding for the Alfalfa Forage and Research Program (AFRP).
Conducted in conjunction with USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA), the 2011 and 2014 Organic Surveys targeted all known farms meeting the standards of the National Organic Program (NOP), administered by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).
Syngenta’s price tag is somewhere north of $43 billion. After reports in 2015 of Syngenta rejecting multiple Monsanto offers to buy it, Syngenta accepted a purchase offer (and is recommending it to its shareholders) from ChemChina, the largest chemical corporation company in China, based in Beijing.
Bob Cropp, professor emeritus from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, in his Jan. 22 report says, “U.S. dairy exports will keep a damper on milk prices at least for the first half of the year.
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