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2 days ago · The Illinois AgriNews and Indiana AgriNews staff is in the field each week, covering topics that affect local farm families and their businesses. We give readers information they can’t get ...
History of the soybean: Learn about soy’s journey in U.S.
Aug 15, 2021 · The U.S. Soybean Export Council shared a timeline of soybean history. Here are some of the highlights. 200 B.C.-300 A.D. — Korea and Japan cultivate soybeans. 1765 — Soybean seed from China is ...
45 years of AgriNews: 1970s boom turned into 1980s crisis
Mar 21, 2022 · 45 years of AgriNews: 1970s boom turned into 1980s crisis. By Tom C. Doran. March 21, 2022 at 6:50 pm CDT. Expand. As family farmers faced plummeting farm product prices and land values, rising ...
About Us - Agrinews
Nov 23, 2020 · About Us - Agrinews. November 23, 2020 at 11:10 am CST. The Illinois AgriNews and Indiana AgriNews staff is in the field each week, covering topics that affect local farm families and their ...
95% of U.S. farms family-owned, operated: census - AgriNews
Feb 27, 2024 · Here are some highlights of the U.S. findings. • There were 1.9 million farms and ranches, down 7% from 2017, with an average size of 463 acres, up 5%, on 880 million acres of farmland, down 2% ...
Grazing sheep on solar farms provides huge opportunity for industry
Aug 12, 2024 · Grazing sheep on solar farms is a new income stream, Sanko said, that provides opportunities for new, young and beginning farmers. “The sheep industry is a minor species compared to the cattle ...
Selling carbon credits: Questions farmers should ask
Apr 14, 2022 · A farmer switching from conventional-till to no-till soybeans would need $32 per carbon credit to break even and it would sequester 0.13 metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent per acre, according ...
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Fuel Gauge: Diesel price drops. The national average diesel price fell 7.8 cents to $3.553 per gallon, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data. By AgriNews Staff . November 04 ...
Third-party trials offer seed selection guide – AgriNews
Dec 15, 2023 · A free service for farmers that began 89 years ago by the University of Illinois has released the 2023 corn and soybean trial data. Results of the Illinois Variety Trails will be published in the ...
STEM curriculum brings agriculture alive in the classroom
May 11, 2021 · The curriculum aims to “help teachers instruct middle and high school students about traditional and modern agricultural methods, with a focus on genetic engineering and genome editing ...