Author: The Farm Report

Arkansas orders Syngenta to sell 160 acres of farmland Citing a new state law against foreign ownership of land in Arkansas, state Attorney General Tim Griffin ordered Syngenta, one of the world’s largest seed companies, on Tuesday to sell 160 acres of farmland in northeastern Arkansas within two years. Gov…. Continue reading

Many times, Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time confuse people, as many of us forget when we go forward an hour and when we go back an hour. I know I forget, but if you just remember the old saying “spring forward, fall back”, that will help. Daylight Saving Time… Continue reading

Second round of USDA awards aims to expand domestic fertilizer production Seventeen new projects will receive funding from a $900 million grant program created to expand U.S. fertilizer production in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, announced Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday. Fertilizer prices soared on fears of… Continue reading

Austin Scott’s brief bid for speaker spotlights futility of rural leaders Georgia Rep. Austin Scott, a senior member of the House Agriculture Committee, was shunted aside by fellow Republicans in his one-day bid to become speaker of the House. Democrat Tom Foley of Washington State, a former House Agriculture chairman,… Continue reading

Food inflation rate slows to U.S. average After outrunning the rest of the U.S. economy for 19 months, food price inflation has slowed to 3.7 percent, the same rate as the nation overall, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday. Dairy prices fell 0.2 percent on an annualized basis… Continue reading

Vilsack encourages congressional creativity to break farm bill impasse Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he’s certain Congress will meet the Dec. 31 deadline to pass the farm bill or temporarily revive its predecessor, but it will require a dose of creativity to do it. Lawmakers have been deadlocked for weeks… Continue reading

Navigator withdraws Illinois application for its five-state carbon pipeline A company that wants to build a carbon pipeline stretching across the Midwest said on Tuesday it was withdrawing its application for the Illinois portion of the 1,350-mile project. In the past month, South Dakota utility regulators rejected Navigator CO2’s request… Continue reading

Spend more on food and ag research Congress perennially recognizes the long-term payoff from agricultural research but repeatedly fails to adequately fund the work in the near term, said Kathleen Merrigan, who served as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture during the Obama era. During a panel discussion on the future of… Continue reading

(AG Insider) It was a small round object sent around the planet, and it changed the course of human history. Call it “Spudnik.” It was a potato. On Columbus Day, the country commemorates the grand global changes — discoveries and destruction alike — that unfolded after Christopher Columbus linked the… Continue reading

Farm bill’s default reference price hikes could add billions to subsidy costs Almost every farm in the country will benefit from a more generous trigger for crop subsidy payments in the years ahead if Congress does nothing more than extend the current farm law, said associate professor Jonathan Coppess of… Continue reading