FULTON COUNTY, Ohio — Varroa mite wiped out almost 60 percent of the commercial beekeeping force in America during the 2024-25 winter, according to recent data from U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists. And as solutions are being accelerated to protect the pollination services that feed the American food system, the…

John Deere has fully acquired GUSS Automation LLC, a California-based crop autonomy company that was named to the World Ag Expo’s Top-10 New Products Competition on several occasions in recent years. GUSS, which stands for Global Unmanned Spray System, unveiled the world’s first autonomous orchard sprayer in 2017 and has…

As of 8:43 a.m. CT, December corn was up 1½¢ at $4.18½ per bushel. November soybeans were up 7½¢ at $10.32¾ per bushel. December CBOT wheat was up less than a penny at $5.15¾ per bushel. December KC wheat was down 2¼¢ at $5.04¾ per bushel. December Minneapolis wheat was…

The Bureau of Land Management has begun the process of rolling back the Biden Administration’s rule allowing conservation leases on its land. The agency on Wednesday released a proposal to rescind the 2024 Public Lands Rule, which aimed to put conservation uses of land on equal footing with grazing, energy production, mining,…

Producers have increased beef output largely by sending larger cattle to slaughter, while pork farms have boosted production largely by increasing the number and sizes of litters, according to a pair of economists. Beef production for all cattle has grown from 629 pounds per animal in 2000 to 724 pounds…

By Joshua Haiar South Dakota is at the epicenter of this fall’s bird flu season with a total of 134,900 turkeys at three facilities already killed to contain the spread, and reports coming in about thousands more.  The only other state reporting confirmed infections in commercial flocks during the last…