Industry Concerns
The Louisiana Farm Bureau has made 2024 a year for change and advocacy. The state’s Young Farmers & Ranchers Club recently met with congressional delegates on the issues affecting their employees and operations.
John Deere is cutting 100 positions from its Waterloo Works plant in 2025, and Butterball will cut 200 positions in Jonesboro, Ark.
The University of Missouri takes us along to see how their Center for Regenerative Agriculture is helping farmers implement new, environmentally sustainable practices.
Let’s see how the Louisiana 4-H Wetlands Ambassadors explore all that their state’s natural habitat offers while learning more about leadership and environmental stewardship. This Week in Lousiana Agriculture takes us there.
Don’t miss the chance to rewatch Tuesday night’s special live programming, Rural America Live with Nationwide Insurance, hosted by FarmHER’s Kirbe Schnoor. Discover how Nationwide is dedicated to protecting the safety of farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses that feed, fuel, and clothe the world.
The German company Constellr is part of the John Deere Start-Up Collaborator Program in 2024. It plans to launch a geothermal satellite next year that will give farmers and ranchers better tools to monitor surface temperature from space.
Digital contracts are becoming more common for farmers and ranchers, which means some unique legal issues might arise. RFD-TV’s farm legal expert Roger McEowen briefly examines those.
In today’s Firm to Farm blog post, RFD-TV ag law expert Roger McEowen briefly examines several of the issues that farmers and ranchers face.
Grain prices are still low, and industry concerns over decreased pork demand and steady real estate values might pressure the next generation to exit the ag industry.
From a $32 billion projected trade deficit to a drafted Farm Bill working in a deficit, here are the headlines most important to Rural Americans in June 2024.
A five-year-old in Etheridge, Tennessee, lost his life in a grain auger. His mother shares her story to ensure that other farm families do not have to endure that pain. RFD-TV’s own Tammi Arender reports.