MORNING Midwest Digest, March 27, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about COVID risk level designations, the Real ID deadline, dust mask donations, oil supplies and spreading holiday cheer. The Trump Administration may start categorizing counties...
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Agriculture continues as COVID-19 threatens nation
Farmers are vulnerable to COVID-19: what they need to know U.S. agriculture continues to function as the nation hunkers down to limit spread of COVID-19.Even as farmers and ranchers produce food for...
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Workers at meat processing plants testing positive for COVID-19
Some facilities may have to shutter for cleaning and worker quarantines. By Lydia Mulvany, Deena Shanker and Isis AlmeidaPoultry giant Sanderson Farms Inc. on Monday reported the first case of a...
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U.S. moves to loosen requirements for H-2 visa applicants
Move made to ensure steady stream of labor for agriculture sector during COVID-19. In order to meet a critical need, U.S. consular officers have been directed to expand the categories of H-2 visa...
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Planters roll while school closings bring extra help
This week's Around Farm Progress podcast offers insight into what's ahead for the 2020 planting year, including the supply situation in light of COVID-19. And what about university research? In this...
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House advances COVID-19 relief package
Direct food- and agriculture-related provisions in the CARES Act total approximately $49 billion of $2 trillion measure. Following the Senate’s unanimous passage late on Wednesday evening, the House...
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This Week in Agribusiness, March 28, 2020
The COVID-1 bill, cattle markets and new products are featured this week. Part 1Mike Pearson mans this desk this week.Max Armstrong talks online with USDA Under Secretary Bill Northey about the...
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Falling energy prices take toll on ethanol production
Green fuel plants are shutting down and some may never come back The coronavirus and cheap oil are hitting the fuel business so hard that ethanol plants are shutting down. Some may never come back.The...
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Farm Progress America, March 30, 2020
Max Armstrong offers insight for agriculture in light of the current coronavirus crisis Max Armstrong answers an interesting request from a professor to record a video for an agriculture class. Max...
View ArticleMORNING Midwest Digest, March 30, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about coronavirus, new technology from Battelle, wheat futures and being grateful for those working at grocery stores. (audio) Across the country, there's a scramble for masks,...
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Raven buys the rest of DOT Technology
South Dakota tech firm accelerates investment in autonomy firm, noting commercial potential Raven Industries announced that it has entered into agreements to acquire the remaining equity of DOT...
View ArticleMIDDAY Midwest Digest, March 30, 2020
Max Armstrong talks about the coronavirus, upcoming National Hog Farmer meeting and people losing health coverage. Can sunlight kill the coronavirus? It's one of the stories circulating in the social...
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ADM closes on bond offering
The action will reduce the company’s exposure to short-term credit market volatility. On March 27, ADM closed on a $1.5 billion notes offering, comprised of $0.5 billion aggregate principal amount of...
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The biofuel industry faces a reckoning
Slumping ethanol demand and lower prices mean smaller biofuel producers and those with more debt may not survive. By Isis Almeida, Fabiana Batista and Michael HirtzerThe coronavirus and cheap oil are...
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Bayer settles false ad lawsuits
The settlement has nothing to do with ongoing negotiations over cancer lawsuits. By Jef FeeleyBayer AG agreed to pay $39.5 million to settle allegations that its Monsanto unit ran misleading ads about...
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NPPC cancels 2020 World Pork Expo
World Pork Expo 2021 is scheduled for June 9-11. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) has announced that its board of directors has decided to cancel the 2020 World Pork Expo in June due to...
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Wheat Quality Council calls off hard red winter wheat tour
The three-day event to sample the state wheat crop and forecast yields has been around since the late 1970s. The annual Wheat Quality Council Hard Red Winter Wheat Tour, scheduled for May 4-6, has...
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Ag groups ask for increase in truck weight limits
Federal COVID-19 legislation allows states to increase truck weight limits during the pandemic. More than 60 national agricultural groups have urged each state to increase truck weight limits on...
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EPA approves use of isoxaflutole on GMO soybeans
Restrictions apply and the new use is limited to specific counties in 25 states. Soybean farmers have a new tool they can use to control weeds as the EPA has approved the use of isoxaflutole on...
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New app helps plant breeders develop new varieties
More than 900 users worldwide have downloaded the app so far. A new computer app, known as the Pathway Association Studies Tool, allows users to build on the results of genome-wide association studies...
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