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Farm Bureaus set up California disaster relief funds
Capital Press | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsThe California Farm Bureau Federation, Butte County Farm Bureau and Butte Ag Foundation are accepting donations to help farms, ranches and rural communities damaged by wildfires, floods and natural disasters.
Wisconsin:More cattle found infected with TB
Wisconsin State Farmer | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsA series of whole-herd tests have found several more cattle infected with bovine tuberculosis in a Dane County herd.
Bankers Expect Farmland Prices to Continue Decline
Creighton University | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsFor a ninth straight month, the overall index rose above growth neutral. On average, bankers estimated that farmland prices declined by 4.0 percent over the past 12 months and expect farmland prices to fall by another 3.2 percent over the next 12 months. Approximately one-fifth of bank CEOs expect low farm income and falling farmland prices to present the greatest challenge to banking operations over the next 5 years. Loan demand by farmers remains strong.
USDA and FDA will regulate cell-cultured meat
Brownfield | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsUSDA and FDA have announced they will work together to regulate cell-cultured meat.
Animal Activists Target Dairy Farmers, Claiming Farms Mistreat Young Calves
CBS | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsLocal dairy farmers say they’re under attack by animal rights activists and have been warned of planned protesters. “We’ve been told that they are planning something or that they could be planning something, so to be vigilant,” said Hank Van Exel of Lodi. Van Exel is a third-generation dairyman, his cows are his life.“That’s my deal. I love cattle,” he said.But over the years he’s been harassed, terrorized, and even threatened. One major reason Exel has been called these names is based on how animal rights activists believe these calves are being treated.
Wisconsin continues losing dairy farms but not milk production
Brownfield | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsWisconsin has lost six-hundred dairy farms in the past twelve months, including 584 since January first. University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability Director Mark Stephenson says we continue to see more efficient larger dairy farms. “Our attrition rate has been higher than in modern times for sure. You know, it’s up north of seven percent right now and that’s big. Usually, it’s between four to maybe five percent, but we aren’t producing any less milk. We’re losing farms but there’s still a lot of milk production.”
Bockchain lets you learn about farms where Thanksgiving turkeys came from
Chicago Tribune | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Food NewsVisiting the family farm, which still uses 1960s-era technology in its plant, is a decidedly old-school way for people to learn more about where their Thanksgiving meal comes from. But many people don’t have the time or stomach for the on-the-farm experience. For those who don’t, there are an increasing number of options.
Scientists warned this weedkiller would destroy crops. EPA approved it anyway.
| Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture News“Everybody brags on my stuff,” said Joyce, 58, a wistful pride crossing his bronzed, weathered face. But now, he has nothing to sell.Joyce leans against the greenhouse he’s building, hands in the pockets of his overalls, peering at the field where he started nearly 800 tomato plants in the spring. It was early August when the telltale signs of trouble emerged. The plants’ broad, flat leaves shriveled and curled, their branches twisted and buckled. Then blossom rot set in. Joyce knew they couldn’t be saved.
Draft EPA study finds newer nonstick compound may be harmful
AP | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Food NewsLong-term exposure to a chemical compound currently used for making nonstick coatings appears to be dangerous, even in minute amounts, according to draft findings released Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. It was the first time EPA weighed in on newer, supposedly safer versions of an increasingly scrutinized family of stick- and stain-resistant compounds.
U.S. bankers say lower ag income pressures farm finances
Reuters | Posted onNovember 21, 2018 in Agriculture NewsFarm incomes and agrarian credit conditions continued to erode in the third quarter of 2018, as economic pressure from the U.S.-China trade war has bankers seeing loan repayment rates fall, according to separate reports released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City and St. Louis.