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After months of uncertainty, an Arizona rancher who discovered 22 dead cattle on his property earlier this year may finally have answers. On November 20, 2024, the Navajo County Major Crimes Apprehension Team arrested 38-year-old Joseph Daniel Gibbons of Snowflake on charges related to crimes against livestock. The case began on August 22, 2024, when the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office received a report of five deceased cattle found in a pasture off Hay Hollow Road in Snowflake. According to the reporting party, the cattle had gunshot wounds. The owner of the cattle immediately notified the Arizona Department of Agriculture —…

Top Third Ag Marketing helps farmers become better agricultural marketers with the goal of marketing crops and livestock in the top third of prices. Mark Gold and his team provide AGDAILY.com with the latest information and a look ahead in their audio commentary. Listen here! https://www.agdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/top-third-agdaily-2024-12-09.mp3 The post Markets in Minutes: Top Third looks ahead for week of Dec. 9, 2024 appeared first on AGDAILY.

By January 1, owners of farms that are incorporated or formed as limited liability companies (LLCs) were going to have to report their beneficial ownership to the U.S. Department of Treasury or face stiff fines. As of last Tuesday, they’re off the hook — for now. On Dec. 3, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Texas (Sherman Division) issued a preliminary nationwide injunction, preventing Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its implementing regulations. The CTA authorizes FinCEN to require beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports in order to help catch crooks who…

In its largest one yet: The annual 4-H Toy Giveaway organized by Reed Marcum, a 19-year-old 4-H’er from Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, distributed more than 15,000 toys Saturday to children and families in need across Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. Marcum and his team of over 100 volunteers distributed toys, clothing, and other essentials to families in a line of vehicles stretching more than 3 miles near the Southeast Expo Center in McAlester. Marcum launched the annual toy giveaway through Oklahoma 4-H in 2016 — when he was just 11 years old — with a small walk-up event and 1,000 toys donated.…

Problem: My wife and I are in a good position. We don’t need much income. We have three kids and eight grandkids. One son farms with us. Our other two work outside the farm. We’re all different, but we get along great.  We operate through a C corporation that holds machinery, grain, livestock, and a little land. Most of our land is owned outside the corporation. Our estate keeps growing beyond our needs, so we’re both thinking of gifting $18,000 of corporate stock to each child annually around Christmas. Is this a good way to start transferring the farm? –…

By Cami Koons AMES — National Farmers Union President Rob Larew spoke about the stalled reauthorization of the Farm Bill and strategies to promote agriculture and conservation within the upcoming administration Saturday at the Iowa Farmers Union annual conference.  “I am so tired of talking about this farm bill,” Larew said with a laugh to a full conference room at the Quality Inn in Ames.  The Farm Bill is a bipartisan package of legislation, typically reauthorized every five years, regulating and funding food and farm programs from the U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation initiatives to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.…

In 1839, Simon Wyckoff bought 172 acres of what is now Warren County in central New Jersey. More than 100 years later, in 1958, the fifth and sixth generations of Wyckoffs, who had transitioned to dairy farming, planted 1,000 Norway spruce seedlings on a difficult piece of ground. Their first harvest was in 1967, when they sold six trees for $5 each. In 1970, they sold the cows, and the family became full-time Christmas tree farmers. John Wyckoff is the seventh generation to run the family farm. Today, Wyckoff’s Christmas Tree Farm has more than a dozen species planted on about 70 acres.…

Farm income is down for the second year in a row, with receipts from corn and soybeans — the two largest field crops — off by a combined $23.5 billion from 2023 levels, but higher than expected livestock revenue is a counterweight, said the Agriculture Department on Tuesday. It estimated net farm income, a broad measure of profits, at $140.7 billion this year, down by $6 billion from last year but still the fourth-highest level on record. Production expenses, for goods such as livestock feed, fertilizer, and pesticides, are falling for the first time since 2019, allowing farmers and ranchers…

The Agriculture Department shirked its duties in a 2020 rule that exempted genetically engineered plants from pre-market review if they were unlikely to pose an environmental risk, ruled U.S. district judge James Donato on Tuesday. Donato overturned the rule, issued during the first Trump administration, and told USDA to reconsider it. Dubbed SECURE, the regulation was the fruit of a multiyear effort to modernize USDA plant regulation. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said it would streamline innovation. Opponents said it would allow the majority of genetically engineered and gene-edited plants to escape USDA review. Previously, all such plants needed USDA approval…

1. Soybeans, Grains Little Changed Overnight Soybean and grain futures were little changed in overnight trading as investors weigh signs of demand for U.S. agricultural products against favorable weather in South America.  Exporters sold 136,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans to China for delivery in the 2024/2025 marketing year, the Department of Agriculture said in a report yesterday.  That follows sales of 30,000 tons of soybean oil to South Korea and an additional 134,000 tons of soybeans to China that were also announced this week.  About 21.7 million metric tons of soybeans have been exported since the start of the…