The Turn the Bag Blue & Gold program from Brevant seeds provides FFA students with the opportunity to gain industry experience and fundraise for their chapter. Once selected for the program, students from participating chapters can begin selling 200 special edition blue-and-gold bags of Brevant seeds for the following season.…
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By Mei Mei Chu and Tom Polansek BEIJING/CHICAGO, March 17 (Reuters) – Beijing has renewed registrations that allow hundreds of U.S. pork and poultry facilities to export to China, industry groups said on Monday, after lapses threatened shipments to the world’s largest meat importer. The renewals are a relief to U.S. farmers and meat…
On Tuesday, March 18, FFA student members, advisors, and leaders across the country will come together to share the importance of agriculture with elected officials and their communities as part of National Ag Day. National Ag Day, which is being celebrated on March 18 this year with the theme Together,…
It has been my experience that nothing is truly perfect, and that perfection is, at best, an ephemeral illusion. And even if something seems perfect, it never stays that way. For example, a person might procure an ice cream sundae from his or her neighborhood ice cream dealer. The flawlessness…
In recent years, a growing number of states, including Iowa, have introduced legislation aimed at limiting litigation against crop protection manufacturers. This movement is a response to an increasing number of lawsuits targeting widely used herbicides, such as glyphosate, which have raised concerns about the future availability and affordability of…
1. Wheat Futures Surge in Overnight Trading Wheat futures jumped in overnight trading after Russia’s forecast for domestic production was lowered and on growing concerns about grain supplies from Ukraine. Russian consultancy IKAR late last week cut its forecast for Russian shipments of the grain to roughly 41 million metric…
Farm and ranch families from across the nation donated 34.8 million pounds of food and raised $658,606 to help fight hunger and assist in other community service outreach in 2024 through the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Harvest for All program. Combined, the monetary and food donations totaled the equivalent of…
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U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) recently…
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