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Cows Get Invisible Boundaries

Virtual fencing is moving from ranch-tech novelty to public-lands tool, which is great news for anyone who has ever priced a fence and then quietly stared into the distance. No posts required: Halter and the Foundation for America's Public Lands are expanding virtual fencing on BLM-managed grazing land, with nearly $3 million committed across 15 projects, more than 4,500 cattle collared and over 1,300 miles of virtual fence drawn. The solar-powered collars use GPS and sound c

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REAP Gets Reaped

Solar panels just got dragged into a policy fight, which is impressive because they usually only follow the sun. Panel discussion: A coalition of farmers, solar businesses and rural energy groups is suing USDA over new Rural Energy for America Program restrictions that they say narrowed solar eligibility after producers already planned projects. The programcan support renewable energy and efficiency upgrades from solar arrays to grain dryers, otherwise known as farm math with

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Regenerative Ag Gets a Bigger Wallet

Regenerative agriculture just got a bigger federal wallet, which means the soil health crowd may briefly stop muttering into their cover crop seed catalogs. Soil money: USDA is increasing its Regenerative Pilot Program from $700 million to $1 billion for fiscal year 2027, with funding split between EQIP and CSP. Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, announced the boost after strong demand from producers. Paperwork compost: The department says producers will be abl

Policy

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Cows Get Invisible Boundaries

Virtual fencing is moving from ranch-tech novelty to public-lands tool, which is great news for anyone who has ever priced a fence and then quietly stared into the distance. No posts required: Halter and the Foundation for America's Public Lands are expanding virtual fencing on BLM-managed grazing land, with nearly $3 million committed across 15 projects, more than 4,500 cattle collared and over 1,300 miles of virtual fence drawn. The solar-powered collars use GPS and sound c

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REAP Gets Reaped

Solar panels just got dragged into a policy fight, which is impressive because they usually only follow the sun. Panel discussion: A coalition of farmers, solar businesses and rural energy groups is suing USDA over new Rural Energy for America Program restrictions that they say narrowed solar eligibility after producers already planned projects. The programcan support renewable energy and efficiency upgrades from solar arrays to grain dryers, otherwise known as farm math with

Policy

26 minutes ago

Regenerative Ag Gets a Bigger Wallet

Regenerative agriculture just got a bigger federal wallet, which means the soil health crowd may briefly stop muttering into their cover crop seed catalogs. Soil money: USDA is increasing its Regenerative Pilot Program from $700 million to $1 billion for fiscal year 2027, with funding split between EQIP and CSP. Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, announced the boost after strong demand from producers. Paperwork compost: The department says producers will be abl

Policy

27 minutes ago

Cows Get Invisible Boundaries

Virtual fencing is moving from ranch-tech novelty to public-lands tool, which is great news for anyone who has ever priced a fence and then quietly stared into the distance. No posts required: Halter and the Foundation for America's Public Lands are expanding virtual fencing on BLM-managed grazing land, with nearly $3 million committed across 15 projects, more than 4,500 cattle collared and over 1,300 miles of virtual fence drawn. The solar-powered collars use GPS and sound c

Livestock

28 minutes ago

Beef Supply Chain Gets Backed Up

The beef supply chain in southwest Kansas hit a human-resources problem that quickly became a cattle problem. Backed up: Heightened immigration enforcement activity around Dodge City, Liberal and surrounding communities led some meatpacking employees to miss work. Livestock groups said thousands of fed cattle were delayed, creating added feed, yardage and transportation costs while finished animals waited for a processing slot. Some plants temporarily slowed or stopped lines,

Industry

3 days ago

California Puts More Corn in the Tank

California just gave E15 a much clearer lane to the pump, and corn growers have a reason to watch the fuel gauge. Green light: State regulators approved rules allowing voluntary sales of E15, a gasoline blend containing 15% ethanol. The action follows legislation signed earlier this month that removed technical barriers to putting the blend into the market. California had already authorized year-round E15 sales, but the latest rules give fuel suppliers a more workable path to

Farming

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Treat the Cow, Not the Crowd

Cattle health researchers are asking a simple question with expensive consequences: does every animal in the group really need the same antibiotic treatment? Treat the risk: Brad White, professor of production medicine and director of the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University, helped develop models designed to identify cattle groups most likely to benefit economically from metaphylaxis, the preventive treatment of a group when bovine respiratory disease risk is hig

Livestock

3 days ago

Diesel Export Ban Gets Real

Harvest fuel costs have gone from painful to “maybe don’t look at the receipt.” Policy at the pump: The administration is examining a full or partial diesel export ban as prices stay near record territory. The weekly national average hit about $6.53 per gallon this week, up sharply from a year earlier. Several farm-state lawmakers have pressed for limits on exports, arguing that more fuel should stay home while producers are burning through diesel at harvest. Farm math: The t

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Sep 25

Too Many Horses at the Water Trough

The West has a horse problem, and no, it is not that anyone forgot to close the barn door. By the numbers: Federal land managers estimate more than 85,000 wild horses and burros are roaming western public lands. Detailed 2026 program data put the population at 85,466 animals against a maximum Appropriate Management Level, or AML, of 25,592. That is more than three times the agency’s target while drought tightens the same forage and water supplies used by wildlife and livestoc

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REAP Gets Reaped

Regenerative Ag Gets a Bigger Wallet

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California Puts More Corn in the Tank

Treat the Cow, Not the Crowd

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Too Many Horses at the Water Trough

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