by Riley Smith | Feb 23, 2023 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Each year, FFA chapters around the country take a week to celebrate National FFA Week. What started as a day-long celebration has evolved to now be a full, week-long celebration where members and alumni share what the FFA is and the impact it has on youth around the...
by Riley Smith | Feb 23, 2023 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Food prices took a significant jump in 2022. At the USDA?s Ag Outlook Forum, Spiro Stefanu, administrator of the Economic Research Service, said the spike was the largest in several decades.?In 2022, food prices rose 9.9 percent,? Stefanu said. ?That’s the...
by Riley Smith | Feb 22, 2023 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Agriculture is constantly evolving, and some of the technological innovations are reach brand-new levels. Now, we even have an Iowa-based company working on an autonomous planter, which can help farmers in a variety of ways. David Krog, CEO of Salin 247, said that,...
by Riley Smith | Feb 22, 2023 | 5 Ag Stories, News
One of the things Jennifer Nealson oversees for the Dollar a Head Beef Checkoff efforts- which are contracted by the checkoff to the National Cattlemen?s Beef Association- is research projects. At the recent 2023 Cattle Industry Convention in New Orleans, Nealson said...
by Riley Smith | Feb 21, 2023 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Recently, Merck Animal Health announced the results of their first-ever consumer transparency study, which showed that a majority of consumers say that transparency in animal protein is extremely or very important. The study explored consumer desire for transparency...
