The American Lamb Board (ALB) is offering grants for 150 sheep producers to participate in its Climate Smart Sheep program. Producers enrolled in the program will be paid up to $7,000 to develop and implement Climate Smart Sheep management practices and measure and report emissions and life cycle analysis. Examples of Climate Smart practices to be implemented include prescribed grazing, …
CIRB Announces Tenth Class of Emerging Leaders
The Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau (CIRB) has named 19 industry professionals to its 2024-2025 Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) class. The 2024-2025 CIRB Emerging Leaders Program class includes: Anthony Kubik, American Farm Bureau Insurance Services Sara Hamm, American Farm Bureau Insurance Services Tanner Schroder, AgriSompo North America Shay Foster, AgriSompo North America Craig Fenster, Aon Carissa Lozier, COUNTRY Financial Luke …
AgGateway Annual in Austin
Registration is underway for the 2024 AgGateway Annual Conference, November 11-13, at the Downright Austin Hotel in Austin, TX. This event combines real working sessions on advanced initiatives, meet-ups and committee gatherings to discuss new and longer-term projects, and a host of conference sessions designed to create discussion and infuse enthusiasm for the AgGateway Mission. Along with learning and working …
Pivot Bio at Farm Progress Show
Customers using Pivot Bio sustainable agriculture products have reduced carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions by over 932,000 metric tons (MT) since the beginning of 2022, and now the company is offering zero percent financing for growers through December 2025. Pivot Bio agronomist Karen Zuver was talking with farmers at the recent Farm Progress Show about what Pivot Bio has to …
Syngenta Continues Work With EPA on Atrazine
Syngenta continues to work with the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that farmers can keep using the crop protection products they need, like Atrazine. Dave Flakne, Syngenta head of U.S. state affairs, provided the latest update at the recent Farm Progress Show. “July 7th of this year, the EPA put out an update that was somewhat favorable, but there’s still …
Farm Foundation Hosts Farm Policy Forum
While the Kamala Harris/Donald Trump debate took the spotlight this week, Farm Foundation hosted a forum on Monday that focused more specifically on the farm policy of each party’s candidate. Moderated by Kristina Peterson with The Wall Street Journal, The Agricultural Platforms of the Candidates for President of the United States featured Kip Tom, Farmers and Ranchers for Trump Coalition, …
NK Offers 12 New Corn Hybrids for 2025
With a decade of groundbreaking investments, NK is bringing stronger corn genetics and herbicide traits combined with enhanced testing to the farm faster than ever with the new 2025 NK Corn Hybrids. NK corn product manager Matt Dolch was at the recent Farm Progress Show to talk about the new hybrids. “We have an excellent new lineup here for 2025. …
Amp Americas Dairy RNG Projects Hit Milestone
Amp Americas, a leading dairy methane capture and renewable natural gas (RNG) company, today announced that its projects have hit the milestone of reducing more than 2,000,000 metric tons (MT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions since 2012 – equal to the emissions of more than five natural gas-fired power plants in one year. Amp Americas partners with dairy farmers …
Ethanol Report From Farm Progress Show
It was a beautiful week in Boone, Iowa for the Farm Progress Show, the nation’s largest outdoor ag show. It is a show that the Renewable Fuels Association always attends because it brings out farmers from all over the ethanol-producing part of the country to see what’s new in the industry. RFA displayed its custom Flex Fuel Plug-in Hybrid Electric …
Rivulis Opening New Micro Irrigation Manufacturing Facility
Global irrigation leader Rivulis today announced the opening of the largest ever micro irrigation production facility in North America to increase production capacity to meet the expanding market while adhering to quality and sustainability measures across its supply chain. The 160,000-square-foot site in Tijuana, Mexico, was designed with the future in mind to not only meet today’s customer needs, but …