06/12/2024 SOURCE: www.phillytrib.com
In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate spoonbills as the birds launched from their perches,
A Black farmer in South Carolina cultivates culture, history — and rice
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06/12/2024 SOURCE: www.brownfieldagnews.com
Continued dry weather is helping Tennessee fields dry out. USDA says corn is 96 percent planted, 89 percent has emerged, and condition is rated 65 percent good to excellent. Soybeans are 74 percent planted, 61 percent emerged, and 65 percent rated good to excellent. Cotton is 92 percent planted, 13 percent squared, and 49 percent […]
Tennessee corn planting nearly complete - Brownfield Ag News
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06/06/2024 SOURCE: www.hoosieragtoday.com
In USDA’s Monday Crop Progress Report, Indiana State Statistician Nathanial Warenski says favorable planting conditions allowed corn and soybean planting progress to continue ahead of their respective five-year averages. Indiana corn is 83% planted, jumping from 73%
Indiana Corn, Soybean Planting Ahead of 5-Year Pace
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06/05/2024 SOURCE: www.publicnewsservice.org
Wells in the Willcox Basin in southeastern Arizona are drying up, and many are pointing the finger at massive agriculture and cattle operations. Kristine Uhlman is a retired University of Arizona hydrologist who says the Willcox Playa, a basin a few miles south of the city of Willcox, holds fresh water. But it's also a place where there are no regulations to manage or control extraction. ...
AZ town grapples with drying wells, unregulated water use, large ag ops
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06/05/2024 SOURCE: www.nola.com
WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to haunt the halls of Capitol Hill in a quest to push a gridlocked Congress
Louisiana sugar cane farmers want a stalemated Congress to pass the Farm Bill. Here's why.
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06/04/2024 SOURCE: revealnews.org
Rural communities across the U.S. push back against large-scale solar projects, sparking a debate on renewable energy and local impact.
Sunblocked: Resistance to Solar in Farm Country - Reveal
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06/04/2024 SOURCE: www.voanews.com
Planting more soy at a time of sputtering demand from importers and domestic processors will only serve to drive prices lower, further swell historically large global supplies and erode US farm incomes
US farmers opt for soy to limit losses as all crop prices slump
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06/04/2024 SOURCE: ca.movies.yahoo.com
Some of the Midwest's worst river flooding in over 20 years could happen this week as snow from a near-record snowpack melts.
Midwest could see worst flooding in 20 years this week; East gets chilly: Monday's national weather forecast
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06/03/2024 SOURCE: www.latimes.com
Dennis Falaschi's plea agreement marks a jarring twist in a criminal case that has captivated farmers in the San Joaquin Valley — and raises a host of questions about who, exactly, engineered the long-running federal water theft and who benefited.
Who else was stealing? Conspiracy plea deepens mystery in San Joaquin Valley water heist
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06/03/2024 SOURCE: www.commercial-news.com
Cooperative weather has helped Illinois farmers achieve impressive winter wheat yields the past few seasons, but a retiring grain merchandiser said the yields are also a display of improved production.
Illinois wheat farmers achieve impressive yields with improved production practices
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