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Bayer may stop producing glyphosate
Bayer says it may stop producing glyphosate, the world’s most popular weedkiller unless it can get court protection against lawsuits blaming the herbicide for causing cancer. The Wall Street Journal says Bayer currently produces about 40 percent of the world’s glyphosate needs, which farmers use to kill weeds that threaten their crops. Over the last ten years, the herbicide has also caught Bayer up in a number of lawsuits. In early March, Bayer told farmers, suppliers, and retailers that it...
State Veterinarian talks managing heat stress in livestock
The past couple of days have been hot, sticky, and miserable. The next few days are not looking much better. While we endure in our airconditioned homes, trucks, and tractors, our animals are outside and need our help to make it through unscathed. Iowa State...
China companies buying Ag products despite government order to desist
Tensions are rising once again between the U.S. and Hong Kong, which in turn led the Chinese government to order state-run agricultural firms to temporarily stop buying U.S. commodities, including corn, soybeans, and cotton. Several buyers specifically canceled pork...
IRFA, ISA seek extension to biofuel tax differentials
Legislators will soon fill the Iowa State Capitol, in hopes of wrapping up the legislative session.The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) and Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) look to state lawmakers to pass companion bills, which seek to extend incentives for...
RFA CEO calls FDA?s clarity on sanitizer guidance ?overly restrictive?
The leader of the Renewable Fuels Association doesn?t believe the FDA?s new guidance on the production of ethanol for hand sanitizer in the U.S. will help alleviate the sanitizer shortage in a meaningful way.RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper released a printed...
Longinaker reflects on Iowa Corn trip to South America
Randolph, Iowa farmer Will Longinaker was included with the latest group to travel to South America as part of the Iowa Corn Growers Association?s Leadership Enhancement and Development (I-LEAD) program. Longinaker is heavily involved with various volunteer...
Consumer trends are changing, and the pork industry is adapting
We are starting to see society try to return to normal from the COVID-19 pandemic. However close we get to becoming ?normal? again, there will be a ?new normal.? I know that phrase has been beaten to death, but there has been a shift. The National Pork Board and the...
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Vilsack announces $275M rural water infrastructure investment
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning a multimillion-dollar investment in rural water infrastructure.Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday announced that the department is investing approximately $272 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater...
BASF has a robust soybean lineup for 2022
As the combines roll through the 2021 harvest, minds are already on what will go into 2022?s planters. Soybean production for 2022 and the current market price of next year?s beans are hot topics right now. If you are going to take advantage of the situation, you are...
Barnett Hunting Blog: It?s been a long time coming?
Saturday, October 9th, 2021, will go down as the night I finally tagged by first whitetail buck with a bow.I grew up deer hunting with my family in northwest Missouri. My first deer was a little 4x2 6-point buck that I shot with my brother?s Remington 700 .243 rifle....
Iowa State University researchers joining $10 million #DiverseCornBelt project
Two Iowa State University researchers will join a five-year $10 million project funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture that seeks to make Midwestern agriculture more resilient by moving away from the dominant corn-soybean rotation.Linda Prokopy...
Closing Market Podcast 10-13-2021
