Attendees of the 2024 Prairie Grains Conference are bound to work up an appetite with this year's jam-packed schedule. Be sure to secure your meal tickets by registering for the conference by Monday, Nov. 25! Registration is welcome after the meal ticket deadline, though meal tickets will not be guaranteed. Don't wait,...

Yesterday, members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) and the Public Lands Council (PLC) testified before the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands in support of legislation to expand the use of livestock grazing as a tool to reduce wildfire risk, make grazing permits more responsi...

Anah Higbie of Quenemo, Kansas, is the winner of the 12th annual NCBA National Anthem Contest, sponsored by Norbrook®. Higbie will sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. "Cattle have been a defining part of who I am from a very early age," said Higbie. "My ...

Helping to lead the charge in checkoff investments for the state, Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council (MSR&PC) Director Patrick O'Leary will again take that leadership beyond Minnesota's borders as a United Soybean Board (USB) director. "As a farmer it is important to me that we all take an inte...

Cooking a Thanksgiving feast for your friends and family will cost less than last year but will still be more expensive than before the pandemic. The American Farm Bureau Federation's 39th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of this year's classic holiday feast for 10, which is $58...

Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) and several of her colleagues on the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee released a request for information from relevant stakeholders on biofuel tax policy. Public Law 117-169, enacted in 2022, made significant modifications to biofuel tax policy without any Republican input. W...

The Congressional Budget Office released a second cost analysis for the revised AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2024. Radio Ink says the scoring still bodes well for radio. The estimated budgetary effects of the Senate and House bills are similar. The CBO estimates that 2.5 to three million EVs annually would need up...

A new report says banks could be more hesitant to lend to the farm sector just as the agricultural industry is expected to enter a major credit crunch. Rabobank says that could disproportionately hurt smaller producers in the process. After two years of near-record profits, a significant drop in crop prices is pushing ...

During the fall, harvests are typically the biggest concern on farmers' minds. But even in parts of the Ninth District where crops looked bountiful, crop prices that have been falling for the last two years were a bigger worry this year. That's according to an October survey of agricultural bankers by the Minneapolis F...

A newly formed institute at Purdue University is offering training and development support to agriculture producers with novel food and beverage product ideas. The new Institute for Food Product Innovation and Commercialization is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development....

With the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's recent recommendation to recognize pulses as a key plant-based protein source, the Northern Pulse Growers Association (NPGA) is encouraged by the potential for increased interest in pulses across American diets. "It's exciting to think about what this could mean for...

McDonald's USA, Lopez Foods, and Syngenta North America are teaming up to make beef production more sustainable. Their collaboration focuses on using Syngenta's Enogen® corn, a specially engineered crop that improves feed efficiency for cattle. By helping cattle digest feed more effectively, Enogen® corn can re...

Following an announcement that West Central Ag Services will move forward with a member vote on a proposed merger by the northwestern Minnesota cooperative with CHS Inc. on November 26, 2024, Arthur Companies CEO James Burgum shared the following statement with KFGO News: "We appreciate the chance to sit down wit...

West Central Ag Services will move forward with a member vote on a proposed merger by the northwestern Minnesota cooperative with CHS Inc., a diversified global agribusiness co-op owned by farmers and member cooperatives across the United States. "We believe that proceeding with the proposed transaction with CHS p...

Application and nomination forms are now available for the North Dakota Stockmen's Association's (NDSA) and North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation's (NDSF) Out of the Ashes Wildfire Disaster Relief Program. The groups teamed up to support the state's cattle ranchers who suffered serious losses in the wildfires that ignited...

The North Dakota Soybean Council and North Dakota State University are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up from school-level NEXTILE: The Soy in Textiles Design Challenge. In NEXTILE's second year of its competition, design students from 21 colleges and universities were invited to leverage their creative an...

The National Pork Producers Council issued the following statement after the unveiling of Senate Democrats' 2024 Farm Bill text by U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI). "Though America's pork producers appreciate Chairwoman Stabenow's efforts t...

With little sign of a breakthrough on the farm bill in Congress, farm groups are shifting their attention to a proposed $21 billion bailout bill. Help is needed because high costs and lower commodity prices are sharply eroding farm income, they say. Successful Farming reports analysts are questioning whether the price ...

President-Elect Donald Trump's threat of mass deportations risks hurting the domestic agriculture sector already struggling with labor shortages. That's according to Matt Carstens, chief executive officer of Iowa's biggest farm cooperative, who said Trump's plan should be approached carefully. Bloomberg reports farming...

Ethanol output rose to a record high in the seven days that ended on Nov. 8, according to data from the Energy Information Administration. Production jumped to an average of 1.113 million barrels a day, the agency said. That's up from 1.105 million barrels a week earlier and the highest since recordkeeping began in 201...