Alltech has released its 2025 Agri-Food Outlook, which includes the company’s 14th annual global feed production survey showing world feed production increased in 2024 by 1.2% to 1.396 billion metric tons. The annual survey that serves as the foundation of the Agri-Food Outlook collected data from 142 countries and 28,235 feed mills in 2024. By analyzing compound feed production and …
Jord BioScience Trials Show Boost in Soybean Yields
Jord BioScience, a leading science and analytics company providing customizable microbial solutions for agriculture, has just released two years of field trial data showing its proprietary microbial solutions can increase soybean yield by up to more than three bushels per acre in the Midwest. The company’s approach, powered by its 6,500-isolate global microbial bank and advanced analytics, demonstrated win-rates* exceeding …
Full Agenda Set for 2025 AgGateway Mid-Year Meeting
AgGateway is pleased to announce that the agenda is now available for the 2025 North America Mid-Year Meeting. The meeting will be held June 9-11 at Prairie Meadows Casino and Hotel in Altoona, Iowa. This annual event is where member volunteers gather to discuss the work of AgGateway connectivity initiatives and working groups through the first half of the year …
Registration Open for Agri-Pulse West Issues Summit
Registration is now open for the Agri-Pulse Food & Ag Issues Summit West in Sacramento, June 10, at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento. This is the fourth year for the event focused on issues such as food and ag trade, technology, and labor of greatest importance in California and other western states. There is a virtual option for the event and …
Ethanol Report on E15 Optimism
U.S. sales of E15 reached a record 1.24 billion gallons in 2024, an increase of 11% over 2023, according to a Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) analysis of data released by state agencies in Minnesota and Iowa. While it appears the Trump administration will have to continue the practice of issuing waivers this summer to keep E15 at the pump, there …
South Carolina Joins Southern Peanut Farmers
The Southern Peanut Farmers Federation (SPFF) has expanded to include another state, proudly welcoming the South Carolina Peanut Board to join Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. “The South Carolina Peanut Board is excited to join the Southern Peanut Farmers Federation to offer the South Carolina peanut industry so many opportunities,” says Richard Rentz, chairman of the South Carolina Peanut Board. …
Rollins Gets Airtime for Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has taken a much more visible role in the new Trump Administration than previous agriculture secretaries, appearing three times this month already on Fox News, most recently this past Sunday. In a wide-ranging interview with Shannon Bream, Rollins talked about a number of issues, from tariffs and trade to the price of eggs, and spent …
NAMA Top Industry Awards Presented
The top awards from the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) were presented this week at the annual conference in Kansas City. Michele Egan, who is now with Novonesis, was honored for her transformative marketing strategies in the animal nutrition sector as North America Marketing Manager at Chr. Hansen. Her leadership in launching BOVAMINE DEFEND® Plus, including the highly successful “BEEF UP” …
ZimmComm Announces Travel Retirement
After over 20 years of hitting the “agriblogging” highway, ZimmComm principals Chuck and Cindy Zimmerman are retiring from business travel at the end of 2025. The Zimmermans founded ZimmComm in 2004 as the first social media-based agricultural communications company and pioneered “event blogging” for farm and biofuels conferences, capturing the sights and sounds in photos and interviews. Nearly 225,000 photos …
NAFB Releases New Listener Study
The National Association of Farm Broadcasting has released a new national farm radio listenership study finds radio is still the number one choice for daily ag news and information. The survey of more than 1,00 farmers and ranchers conducted by Kynetec Research also validates the importance of ag radio as a primary source for learning about ag products and services …