The vice president of the Livestock Marketing Association says LMA has launched a new initiative to address the challenges facing young farmers and ranchers.
Mike VanMaanen, who owns and operates Eastern Missouri Commission Company, a livestock auction market in Bowling Green, Missouri, says the association held listening sessions with producers of all sizes to gather feedback. “Today’s interest rates have climbed a lot, making it even harder for them to get started, ” he says.
The cash dairy markets had something unusual happen at the end of the week. Cheese blocks and barrels were selling for
A bridge collapse in Iowa led to some fertilizer and diesel spilling into a river. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources
A new supply chain problem could further reduce fluid milk consumption in schools. Democratic U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York
A livestock economist says he expects global trade in the year ahead to reflect efforts to rebalance herd inventories. Lance Zimmerman
Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn is sending mixed signals to organic grain markets. Ryan Koory with Argus Media says
The Kansas Agriculture Department says it’s investigating the possible first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza this fall. The affected poultry
Across the Corn Belt, rain is halting late-season fieldwork, mainly east of the Mississippi River. In Michigan, 79% of the corn
U.S. soybean crush is expanding and the director of marketing with AGP says renewable diesel demand is driving the growth. Reggie
The lack of precipitation this fall has taken a toll on southeast Missouri cow/calf producer Charlie Besher. “We had to sell
