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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Agriculture US, Economics, AgriBusiness,

The Iowa Farm Bureau is a small nonprofit. It's sitting on a huge business empire. - Investigate Midwest

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, the country’s most profitable farm bureau, influences most aspects of agricultural policy in the state. One profitable loan underscores how large and complex the organization has become.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Agriculture US, Beekeeping, Conservation/Tillage,

The American Bumblebee Has Vanished From Eight States

In two decades, the insect's population has declined by nearly 90 percent due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, pesticides and diseases

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Dairy, Agriculture US, Economics, Food/Nutrition, Jobs US, Coronavirus/COVID,

Dairy farmers forced to pour tens of thousands of litres of milk away due to HGV driver shortage and rising costs and labour shortages

The slim margin on milk and its short shelf life means any small hit to the labour market has a much larger effect on dairy than other products.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Irrigation, Agriculture US, Water,

What if farmers really could use 50% less water? Arizona would be a different place

We need more partnerships like the one between N-Drip and Central Arizona Project on drip irrigation if we're serious about saving water.

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Rice, Precision AG , Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Ag Podcast US, Climate Change, Ag Podcast Global,

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TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Soybeans, Agriculture US, Education U.S. MidWest, Alfalfa/Hay, Insects, Research,

10/07/2021 SOURCE: www.dtnpf.com

Here's Why Fall Armyworms Were So Bad This Year -- And Why It Could Happen Again

A warm winter, lots of storms and chemical failures and shortages combined to let fall armyworms wreak havoc this year.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Young Farmers, Sustainability,

Youth Council leads ag into future

We hear the questions again and again. Where will the next generation of people in agricul...

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Herbicides, Weeds, Agriculture US, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Education U.S. MidWest, Plant Breeding,

Waterhemp goes off script to resist herbicides - My Droll

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cementing waterhemp’s reputation as a hard-to-kill weed in corn and soybean production systems, University of Illinois researchers have now documented the weed deviating from standard detoxification strategies to resist an herbicide that has never been commercialized. The chemical in question, syncarpic acid-3 (SA3), is the great-great grandfather of the HPPD-inhibiting herbicide […]

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Randy Krotz
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Topics: Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, Government / Policies, Commodity/Trade Groups,

New NCGA President, Iowa Farmer Chris Edgington, Assesses Goals and Priorities

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Randy Krotz
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Topics: Corn/Maize, Soybeans, Commodities, Agriculture US, Trade (Commodities),

Many Iowa farmers say crop yields better than expected

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig said he expects 2021 to be “another year where you’re going to have a lot of variability, but I think generally we can say things look better than we might have expected.”

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