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Suggested Event Aug 31, 2021 to Sep 02, 2021 How do you start a successful farm meeting? For the Farm Futures Business Summit, how the event got its start is interesting and Mike Wilson, editor of Farm Futures, offers that history. He also shares how the Ag Finance Boot Camp got its start. Creating a useful, information-packed event that brings farmers back year after year isnt easy, but Mike Wilson, his editorial team and the events group at Farm Progress are making it happen and the event r...

Bt-like row crop breakthrough but for carbon sequestration. “There are a trillion species of microbes, and the industry has been looking at the same 100 for a long time,” the founder and CEO at Pluton Biosciences says. “But for instance, if you keep looking at the same  Bt, you’ll never find anything new. We believe we can find the next breakthrough for carbon sequestration because we’re looking outside the common organisms. We are looking in the massive diversity that’s found in a...

“At the bottom of every one of these ballot initiatives is an animal rights group that’s driven by a larger strategy, but it’s not as coordinated on the surface as people would like to think it is,” said John Robinson, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s senior vice president of membership and communications. The initiatives’ supporters are “similar in their messaging tactics and driven by a larger conversation that’s not easily linked to one group,” Robinson told Fa...

Farm Progress PANEL polled readers for their thoughts on the recent environmental holiday. Results? Not a surprise

(NAFB) – Farm Progress will return to hosting live events with the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, August 31-September 2, and Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, Nebraska, September 14-16. A survey done by Readex Research indicated that 84 percent of past show attendees will go to the show in person or plan to attend if their schedule allows it. The industry hasn’t come together in person since early 2020, so groundbreaking product introductions and technological advances haven’...

This Week in Agribusiness, April 24, 2021 Water impact on California crops, a new iPad, Belgian planting, in-person farm shows and plant health are featured this week. Apr 24, 2021 Max shares some land prices and talks with Mike about land regulations. Chad Colby reports from central California, and talks with Martin Hein, Bakersfield, Cal., farmer about diversifying crops due to lack of water. Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading, North Dakota, shares market insight, including wheat, corn rall...

Can a 4-H camp facility make a difference? Looks like this facility in Kansas does. The Rock Springs Ranch State 4-H Center near Junction City, Kan., is used for far more than 4-Hers. From FFA officer training to classes for those who are part of the Kansas Ag and Rural Leadership class, the facility is a busy place. The 735-acre facility is celebrating its 75th year serving the state and Jennifer Latzke, editor of Kansas Farmer, caught up with leadership for the organization to look back at th...

Apr 22, 2021 Farm Progress will return to live events with the two can’t-miss farm shows of the year; Farm Progress Show in Decatur, IL, August 31 – September 2, 2021 and Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, NE, September 14-16, 2021. A survey conducted by Readex Research revealed growing confidence and positivity among prior attendees, indicating 84% of past show attendees will attend in-person or plan to attend if scheduling allows. The industry has not convened since early 2020, ther...

Tim Hearden Students at Shasta College in Redding, Calif., put a castration band on a calf in 2019. Proposed ballot initiatives in Oregon and Colorado would ban the practice. IP13 would classify slaughter as aggravated abuse, redefine AI and castration as sexual assault. An Oregon ballot initiative proposed for 2022 would effectively criminalize the farming of food animals in the state by classifying their slaughter as aggravated abuse and redefining artificial insemin...

Sierra Day PLANTED: Corn is in the ground for the 2021 Farm Progress Show, to be held in Decatur, Ill., from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Host farmer David Brix used his own equipment to plant his share of the field demonstration plots. There’s no bigger vote of confidence than planting field demonstration corn — historically a short-season corn — and farmers started planting it April 16. The only saying that there’s no faith like a farmer who plants a seed could well a...