USDA’s first survey-based forecasts for the season slightly lowered yields for corn and soybeans compared to projections last month. In the August Crop Production report released Friday, USDA puts corn production for 2023/24 at 15.1 billion bushels, down 209 million from the July projection, but ten percent more than 2022 which would be the second highest on record behind 2016/17. …
Wyant Receives Communication Excellence Award
Congratulations to Sara Wyant, president and CEO of Agri-Pulse Communications, who recently received the Rueben Brigham Award. The award is given by the Association of Communication Excellence (ACE) to a communicator who has made a major contribution in the field of agriculture, natural resources, or life and human sciences. The award is named after Reuben Brigham (1887-1946) who served as …
New Cover Crop Survey Released
The 2022-2023 National Cover Crop Survey Report was released today the challenges assumptions on the role of incentive payments in cover crop adoption. According to the survey, nearly half of the cover crop users participating in the survey reported receiving some sort of payment for cover crops in 2022, and almost 78% of cover crop non-users said incentive payments would …
Organizations Supporting Tech Hub LIVE
AgGateway and the Agricultural Retailers Association are two of the annual Tech Hub LIVE Conference and Expo supporting organizations for one very good reason – because their members attend. “For the last 13 years, AgGateway has done a lot of work in the whole technology space and bringing data interoperability,” said AgGateway Executive Vice President Jeremy Wilson. “This conference has …
Women in Ag Tech Ambassadors
The first in-person meeting of the new Women in Ag Tech initiative happened at Tech Hub LIVE last week in Des Moines, but it was almost a year in the planning with an active group of 15 ambassadors who helped make it happen. Aurea Rivera, founder of Carbon Metrics Global, was one of the women who was involved. “I believe …
Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production
Yield10 Bioscience announces positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (“HT”) traits in Camelina, which will help support grower adoption for the biofuel feedstock market by enabling weed control and increased access to acreage previously treated with Group 2 herbicides. Yield10 is executing a program to develop and commercialize spring and winter Camelina varieties with stacked …
Truterra Announces New Programs for Farmers
Truterra, LLC, the sustainability business of Land O’Lakes, today announced the launch of four new data-driven regional and crop-specific programs to support farmers as they adopt regenerative growing practices. The offerings include a long-awaited solution for long-term adopters, Truterra’s first cotton-specific program, first nitrogen management program following a successful pilot and more. These programs build on Truterra’s mission to support …
Peanut Farmers Interested in SAF
Finding new uses for peanuts is becoming a priority for the industry and there was a lot of interest at the Southern Peanut Growers Conference this year in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). “Peanut oil is very suitable for conversion into a jet fuel…to be able to get into that market would be a further use for peanuts and peanut oil …
Farmerhood Seeks Help for Ukrainian Farmers
As a sponsor of Tech Hub LIVE, EarthDaily Agro had the opportunity to introduce attendees to a global charity working to provide humanitarian relief to Ukrainian farmers. FARMERHOOD.org is a charitable collective that includes leading agricultural companies such as Syngenta and Land O’Lakes designed to help the smaller farmers impacted by the ongoing conflict with Russia. “And we offer them …
Third Tech Hub LIVE Proves Premier Status
It was only two years ago that the very first Tech Hub LIVE debuted in Des Moines and already it has proven itself to be the premier event for advancing tech-enabled agriculture. Meister Media Worldwide chairman and CEO Gary Fitzgerald was very pleased with the success of the event this year. “I’ve been told it’s 25 or 30 percent growth …