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The ‘Harvest to Market’ Innovation
University of New Hampshire, Carsey School | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Food NewsBuying food locally is a goal to which many consumers aspire. Local produce is likely to be fresher than food shipped from hundreds or thousands of miles away, less shipping means less reliance on fossil fuels, and local farmers receive the benefits of local spending. But what makes sense in theory can be difficult in practice. Try, for example, to find and purchase a locally grown carrot. In the traditional food system, local farmers and buyers have trouble connecting.
Deere/ Precision Planting Lawsuit Likely Won't Impact Other Mergers
Ag Web | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsLast week the Department of Justice (DOJ) decided to take John Deere to court in an anti-trust lawsuit. At this point the outcome of that lawsuit is unclear. Farmers and industry insiders alike were surprised by the challenge, but some analysts not so much. According to Jim Weisemeyer of Informa Economics, the current road block for the Precision Planting and John Deere Merger is temporary. “There’s not one big leader in this area,” he explained to AgriTalk radio show host Mike Adams.
New York proposes updated fuel regulations allowing for E15
Ethanol Producer Magazine | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Energy NewsOn Aug. 24, the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets published a proposed rule in the New York State Register proposing to update the statement’s fuel regulations to allow for the sale of E15 in model year 2001 and newer vehicles. In addition for allowing for the sale of E15 blends, the proposed rule also includes a provision that will require ethanol blends to comply with certain labeling requirements required by federal regulation.
R Calf seeks to end beef checkoff
BEEF | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsAttorneys for R-CALF, USA last week asked the court to award the group summary judgment and immediately end the beef checkoff program.
Are Your Grain Deals at Risk? Lessons from a $27 Million Ponzi Scheme
Ag Web | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe last place a farmer wants to spend a summer day is in a court room. But that is exactly where more than a hundred Missouri farmers found themselves this past week, trying to be made whole on grain transactions that went horribly wrong and left them holding $27 million in lost grain sales. The culprit of the scam was a small grain dealer and hauler named Cathy Gieseker. A rough-hewn, working class gal who tried to build up her grain hauling business after the death of her husband in 2007. Around this time, she told farmers she had special deals with ADM Grain.
Meat Institute schedules animal care conference
Meat + Poultry | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe North American Meat Institute’s (NAMI) Animal Care and Handling Conference will take place at downtown Kansas City’s Westin Crown Center, Oct. 13-14. The educational conference will appeal to all those involved with the production and management of livestock and meat products.
Agriculture market crisis hits machinery sales
euractive | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsAffected by the ongoing crisis in EU agricultural markets, the European agricultural machinery industry is expected to face further losses this year, after suffering a decline in sales in 2015.
Appeals Court upholds lawyers share of gmo agreement
Reuters | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsA federal appeals court has ruled that plaintiffs' lawyers leading federal multidistrict litigation against Bayer CropScience over genetically modified rice are entitled to 10 percent of a $92 million settlement the company struck with a farmers' co-op in state court. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision finding the lead MDL lawyers' work had benefited the co-op, Riceland, which had also filed a separate federal action that was part of the MDL.
When industrial-scale farming is the sustainable path
PBS | Posted onSeptember 8, 2016 in Agriculture NewsIn her new book “Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland,” published Sept. 6, Miriam Horn follows five people whose forward-looking practices sometimes defy widely held beliefs about sustainability and farming. Below, Horn pulls from the story of Justin Knopf, a farmer in central Kansas, to show that industrial-scale farming — and yes, even the pesticides that come with it — can be sustainable.
EPA to shut some Oklahoma wastewater wells after quake
Yahoo.com | Posted onSeptember 7, 2016 in Energy NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will order wastewater disposal wells shut near the epicenter of a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that struck on Saturday around Pawnee, Oklahoma. The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725-square-mile (1,878-sq-km) area around Pawnee. It also asked the EPA to help shut disposal wells in a 211 square-mile (546.49-sq-km) area of Osage County because the OCC lacked jurisdiction there.