Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced federal support for 45 new projects related to adopting more efficient grain drying technology by farmers across Canada.
With this investment of up to...
Source: Stine Seed Co. news release
Stine Seed Company is pleased to announce Thursday, March 23, 2023, as Women in Agriculture Day in Iowa.
For the fourth consecutive year, Stine has partnered with the Iowa FFA Foundation, Iowa 4-H Youth Development...
Source: BioSafe Systems news release
After much dedicated work, BioSafe Systems has been awarded US patent number 11439151 B2 titled 'Process for Treating an Agricultural Medium'. The patent establishes our innovative and original idea qualifying our development of the Restorative...
Source: U.S. Wheat Associates and National Association of Wheat Growers joint news release
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) are disappointed that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has approved the Canadian Pacific Railway's merger...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
Australian exports contribute to recent weakness in Canadian wheat and canola markets.
La Nina is the term for the cooling of ocean temperatures in the central and east-central Pacific Ocean near the equator. The temperature of...
Source: Phospholutions Inc. news release
(State College, PA) Phospholutions Inc., a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, announces the launch of RhizoSorb, an entirely new phosphate fertilizer technology now available for use in U.S. crop production. RhizoSorb is a patented fertilizer...
Source: USDA news release
Between 1948 and 2019, the volume of crops produced in the U.S. grew 186 percent, and livestock production grew 140 percent. USDA, Economic Research Service researchers classify crop output into six subcategories: food grains, feed crops,...
Map images from study showing increasing tile drainage from top to bottom. Deeper reds indicate more nitrate in water.
Source: University of Illinois news release
Midwestern agriculture contributes the vast majority of nitrogen in the Gulf of Mexico, causing an oxygen-starved...
Source: USDA, Jonathan McFadden, Eric Njuki, and Terry Griffin
Digital agriculture—the ongoing transformation of farming that includes digitalization and automation of farming tasks—may be an important part of the solution to challenges facing U.S. agriculture, including rising production costs, climate...
Source: Purdue University news release
The annual summary recording nationwide grain dust bin explosions reported nine incidents in 2022. This compares to seven reported incidents in 2021 and a 10-year average of 7.8 explosions annually.
Kingsly Ambrose, Purdue University professor of...
