Farmers can expect benefits from pending trade agreements with China and North America as well as a recent agreement signed with Japan, the head of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) said at Land Expo 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Ken Isley, administrator of Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) revealed that the the U.S. beef industry will benefit from ...

More than two million West African farmers toil daily to produce precious cocoa beans, but few will ever taste the fine chocolate it eventually produces. The trees that produce these butter-rich pods do not grow outside the steamy tropics, thriving instead on the bulge of Africa. As such, the region produces the bulk of the world’s cocoa. Yet, Belgian, Swiss, Italian and ...

U.S. farmers are stuck with fields full of weather-damaged corn – a crop they planted after the U.S.-China trade war killed their soybean market. Many don’t know yet what crops they’ll plant next season among a host of dicey options. In Texas, Kansas and Colorado, farmers are weighing whether they should plant fewer acres of corn and more sorghum, even ...

Australian government is investing in infrastructure and program to support the adoption, trial and development of farm management solutions. A national specialized Australian agency has been given the task to lead the adoption of location-based technology across a wide range of agricultural applications. The agency will provide a coordinated national Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) network and develop an Australian Satellite-Based Augmentation System ...

Farmers experienced huge loss as a result of the trade war when Beijing imposed tariffs on a variety of U.S. agricultural products, including soybeans, corn and pork. In some cases, the Chinese market evaporated for American exporters, resulting in tumbling commodity prices, and big losses for U.S. farmers. To make up for some of these losses, the Trump administration has ...

A recent American Farm Bureau Federation report stated that highest number of farm bankruptcies have been reported from Wisconsin with 48 Chapter 12 filings over the 12-month period ending in September, followed by Georgia, Nebraska and Kansas, each of which had 37 filings. Minnesota, California, Texas, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New York round out the top 10 states for farm bankruptcies. ...