LINCOLN – The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) is reminding poultry owners to continue to monitor for and protect their birds against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Recently, NDA in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, confirmed a case of HPAI in Nebraska in a small backyard flock in…
Higher cattle Are cattle lows maybe in place? End of month-Did we run out of sellers Expanded limits on cattle tomorrow Corn still moves lower Beans still the grain bright spot?
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The term ‘alternative feedstuffs’ can mean a lot of different things, but in feeding cattle, it includes edibles not commonly found in the feed bunk. K-State Research and Extension beef specialist Justin Waggoner uses soybean hay as an example. He said cattle producers don’t normally feed soybean…
An Illinois jury found that several of the country’s major egg producers conspired to limit America’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Several large food manufacturing companies in the lawsuit filed in 2011 said producers used…
Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to a P.O. Box in Salt Lake City, picked up another 3,331 acres of county land, buying it from a Colorado investment…
Who’s Buying Nebraska? Corporations, investors grabbing giant chunks of Nebraska farmland Seven out-of-state buyers, including a Utah church, a Philadelphia corporate farm and a California investment fund, spent nearly $250 million in the past five years on pricey Nebraska farmland, FFP analysis shows. There’s never a Black Friday discount when…
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Adrian Smith, Chairman of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, released the following statement after the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement panel issued their final report on the U.S.-Canada dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation dispute: “I remain fully supportive of Ambassador Tai and Secretary Vilsack’s efforts to hold…
Hay is expensive and many long hours go into harvesting, storing, and feeding it. Don’t waste up to a third of it by using poor feeding practices. Believe it or not, cattle can trample, over consume, manure on, and use for bedding up to 25 to 45 percent of your…
ARLINGTON, VA – Today’s ruling by a U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute panel allowing Canada to restrict the dairy access that the United States negotiated for in the USMCA pact weakens the agreement’s value to the US dairy industry, according to the National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council. An earlier panel…
For the week ending November 25th the Midwest sheep and goat market was thinly traded as would be expected for Thanksgiving week. I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving this past week. There were only 2 sales in our typical trade area this week. With that the market could be…
