When it rains, it pours – especially when you push your luck.
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A U.S. tech company says its fully electric smart tractor doesn’t necessarily need a driver to operate it; it’s the world’s first.
Doosan Bobcat has launched a new all-electric Bobcat T7X compact track loader, stating it’s the first such vehicle in the world. Unveiled earlier this year at the CES tech show in Las Vegas, the new T7X won two awards for innovation during the event.
This June 2022 periodical update provides a market outlook for dairy, cattle, wheat and other key commodities, and gives an overview of what developments to watch in the upcoming months in North America. To be continued in the July 7 of Agri-View. Visit research.rabobank.com for more information.
SAXON, Wis. — Shane Wyzlic had plenty of excuses not to head into a war zone.
ARLINGTON, Wis. -- Fire crews from multiple departments battled a blaze June 26 at a barn at the University of Wisconsin-Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The fire was contained to one large structure that housed farming equipment and hay; no people or animals were injured, said Marc …
CERESCO, Wis. – Named for Ceres, the God of Agriculture, Ceresco in Fond du Lac County was a six-year utopian adventure that failed because of its prosperity.
A new dataset and analysis are set to ensure crop breeders develop new varieties that benefit the world’s most disadvantaged people. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s Excellence in Breeding Platform led a data-collection effort across public-breeding programs an…
A method to edit multiple genes in plants while simultaneously changing the expression of other genes recently was developed by scientists from the University of Maryland-College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Called the “CRISPR-Combo” the tool is expected to enable genetic-engineerin…
Genetically modified Bt corn has little impact on non-target insects and other organisms, according to a recently published study by a scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and colleagues from Switzerland.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 2022 in 20 countries or situations. They’re called hunger hotspots.
HERBSTER, Wis. – Sometimes we just don’t see the good in the familiar. We tend to take some things for granted. But when we look closely we can see just how important the familiar can be.
Every day plants take carbon dioxide from the air and – with the help of sunlight – turn it into chemicals essential to plants and humans. Some of the chemicals, known as aromatic compounds, are the starting material for medications. Yet it’s difficult for plants to make enough of them to ha…
CHILTON, Wis. – The journey toward implementing conservation practices can intimidate farmers, especially those with no prior experience. But networking with other farmers and sharing experiences has given Mitchell Schaefer the confidence to try them on his farm.
The ending-stock estimate for U.S. corn in the 2022-2023 marketing year increased in the June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. A reduced use estimate for old-crop corn – exports decreased 50 million bushels – increased the carryover number or beginning stocks for the new crop …
Climate change, growing threat
Soil samples in North Dakota indicate reduced levels of overwintering wheat midge larvae – cocoons -- for the 2021 season. A total of 2,070 soil samples were collected from 22 counties in the fall of 2021 to estimate the statewide risk for wheat midge in the 2022 wheat growing season. The di…
WASHBURN, Wis. – Folks speak wistfully of a time when a sense of community existed in our nation, when people helped each other. They supported local farms and farmers by purchasing from them. Folks knew the farmers and they knew where the food they ate came from. Supply chains were short an…
Soybean-oil prices have spent the past 18 months at record prices, leaving end-users searching for solutions. In a flashback to the food-versus-fuel debates of ethanol a decade ago, the American Bakers Association has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce biofuel mandates …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will allow Conservation Reserve Program participants who are in the final year of their contract to request voluntary termination following the end of the primary nesting season. Participants approved for the one-time, voluntary termination won’t be require…
As technologies improve through time, management decisions need to be adjusted to meet changing times. Better equipment, improved bio-engineered hybrids, better seed treatments, new irrigation technologies, new pesticides, etc., have all contributed to corn-grain-yield progress.
WAUPUN, Wis. – United Cooperative and the city of Waupun finalized a developer’s agreement June 14 for a $100 million investment. The investment is to eventually include a soybean-processing facility in the Waupun Industrial Park on the city’s southwest side.
OPINION Editor’s note: António Guterres addressed June 17 the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in Washington, D.C., convened by the United States top climate envoy, John Kerry, and hosted by President Joe Biden. The meeting included countries representing 80 percent of global gro…