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Pork Commentary: Good News – Pig Crop Smaller than Last Year
2016-01-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CANADA - The USDA December 1st Hogs and Pig Report had a very surprising statistic. In the three months of September–November the US pig crop was smaller, compared to the same time last year. This in the face of some dire predictions of massive expansion and unsustainable production levels that could overwhelm future packer capacity.
Iowa, Illinois Ag Groups Announce Series Of Crop Fairs
2015-12-31 00:32:27| Agriculture - Topix.net
IOWA, ILLINOIS AG GROUPS ANNOUNCE SERIES OF CROP FAIRS Dec. 30, 2015 Source: Iowa Corn news release Iowa Corn will begin the New Year by offering a series of crop fairs hosted at local venues around the state. These crop fairs feature an array of speakers on topics that will help farmers navigate the progressive agriculture industry and allow learning opportunities to directly interact with local and state experts.
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DuPont cuts jobs ahead of Dow merger; Cargill exits crop insurance business
2015-12-30 08:35:01| Food - Topix.net
DuPont will cut 1,700 jobs in Delaware and thousands more globally as it prepares for its merger with Dow Chemical. Dow and DuPont announced earlier this month that they would join to create a giant chemical producer, DowDuPont, that will eventually be split into three independent companies.
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Keeping up crop production as climate shifts the country's 'bread basket'
2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In September 2014, a group of leading plant and agricultural researchers sat down at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss a looming question -- how will agriculture in the Midwest be affected by climate change? This wasn't just an academic exercise. Midwestern farmers grow the majority of the country's corn and soybeans, and scientists had predicted that yields could take a substantial hit from changing weather patterns, with potential impacts on food prices and farmers' earnings. Even...
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Should The World Emulate US Crop Insurance?
2015-12-17 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: With the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events adversely affecting agricultural outputs and farmers' incomes, commercial crop insurance has been touted as the solution for vulnerable farmers all over the world. Financial and farm interests have been promoting US crop insurance as the solution. It is instructive to consider lessons from the 2012 drought. Driven by the expectation of high maize prices, owing to the maize bio-ethanol mandate introduced almost a decade ago, US farmers...
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