USDA on Wednesday highlighted funding for 92 Regional Conservation Partnership Program grants nationally. That includes 16 projects addressing water conservation in western states as well as 42 projects that promote wildlife habitat and conservation restoration. Nine of the projects also help livestock producers with grazing management.
CME announced the resetting of price limits for grain and oilseed futures as of Nov. 1, 2024; its variable price-limit mechanism enacted in March 2014, resets price limits every six months in each of the CBOT grain and oilseed contracts.
Before he died, Ohio regenerative farmer David Brandt had begun working with the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa to help create a farmer-led learning center on the convent's 343-acre farm. This has evolved into an initiative to help the convent with its mission of education and stewardship.
In box retail chain stores across several states, decorative cornstalks infected with tar spot, a fungal disease, have been discovered. These decorations could potentially spread the yield-reducing pathogen to new areas.
Every other year, Syngenta hosts its agricultural media summit, which this year was held in Greensboro, North Carolina. Here are some developments the company shared with journalists this year.
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