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Sheep Producers Are Feeling Fleeced

American sheep producers have a bone to pick with lamb imports, and this time they took the argument straight to Washington. At an October 16 hearing, domestic producers said imports are squeezing their ability to compete, while Australia and New Zealand argued they are helping fill a gap in American supply. Sheep have entered the courtroom. Feeling fleeced: Industry testimony put the U.S. share of its own lamb market at 21.1% in 2025, down from 27.6% in 2021. The American Sh

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Sheep Producers Are Feeling Fleeced

American sheep producers have a bone to pick with lamb imports, and this time they took the argument straight to Washington. At an October 16 hearing, domestic producers said imports are squeezing their ability to compete, while Australia and New Zealand argued they are helping fill a gap in American supply. Sheep have entered the courtroom. Feeling fleeced: Industry testimony put the U.S. share of its own lamb market at 21.1% in 2025, down from 27.6% in 2021. The American Sh

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The Farm Data Is Talking. Is Anybody Listening?

A combine can draw a beautiful yield map, but it cannot tell you why one muddy corner behaved like it had personal grievances. That is where farmers are discovering the value of making their various datasets finally talk to one another. The detective work: In one recent field example, imagery revealed a soggy portion of a field beside clearly visible drainage-tile lines. By comparing maps instead of staring at one pretty image, the problem became easier to diagnose. Layer cak

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Drones Couldn’t Spot the Disease. Send in the Robot.

Drones may look impressive swooping over soybean fields, but some diseases start in places a flying camera cannot easily see. If the problem is hiding beneath leaves, perhaps the solution needs wheels. Ground control: Engineers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale built a four-wheeled, battery-powered robot equipped with cameras aimed at the upper and lower portions of soybean plants. The target is frogeye leaf spot, a disease that can hide below the canopy before the f

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Sheep Producers Are Feeling Fleeced

American sheep producers have a bone to pick with lamb imports, and this time they took the argument straight to Washington. At an October 16 hearing, domestic producers said imports are squeezing their ability to compete, while Australia and New Zealand argued they are helping fill a gap in American supply. Sheep have entered the courtroom. Feeling fleeced: Industry testimony put the U.S. share of its own lamb market at 21.1% in 2025, down from 27.6% in 2021. The American Sh

Livestock

18 minutes ago

The Farm Data Is Talking. Is Anybody Listening?

A combine can draw a beautiful yield map, but it cannot tell you why one muddy corner behaved like it had personal grievances. That is where farmers are discovering the value of making their various datasets finally talk to one another. The detective work: In one recent field example, imagery revealed a soggy portion of a field beside clearly visible drainage-tile lines. By comparing maps instead of staring at one pretty image, the problem became easier to diagnose. Layer cak

Farming

19 minutes ago

Drones Couldn’t Spot the Disease. Send in the Robot.

Drones may look impressive swooping over soybean fields, but some diseases start in places a flying camera cannot easily see. If the problem is hiding beneath leaves, perhaps the solution needs wheels. Ground control: Engineers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale built a four-wheeled, battery-powered robot equipped with cameras aimed at the upper and lower portions of soybean plants. The target is frogeye leaf spot, a disease that can hide below the canopy before the f

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USDA’s Research Shuffle Gets a Courtroom Scuffle

USDA’s proposed office shuffle has run into a judge holding up a very large stop sign. The plan to close Maryland’s historic Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is on hold, at least temporarily. Bench press: U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria paused the department’s reorganization this week after labor unions and other challengers argued USDA could not spend appropriated money on the overhaul without congressional authorization. That is not a permanent victory for opponen

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The WOTUS War Is Still All Wet

Washington has found another way to argue over a puddle, and this time the definition may determine who needs federal permission to work near one. Water line: EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are reviewing feedback on their supplemental proposal for Waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The rule determines which waterways and wetlands fall under the federal Clean Water Act. For farmers, that can affect drainage, construction, and land-management decisions. Farm-side view:

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Bayer and Biotech Get Down to the Roots

Imagine a crop getting nitrogen delivered to its doorstep instead of waiting for another fertilizer pass. Bayer and a biotechnology startup are trying to make that less science fiction and more soil science. Root awakening: Bayer Crop Science and Switch Bioworks announced a collaboration focused initially on microbes engineered to produce nitrogen on plant roots. Switch’s approach uses a genetic switch intended to let microbes establish themselves before turning on nitrogen p

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Farm Debt Gets Buried Deep

America’s farm debt pile is getting big enough that it may need its own machine shed. By the numbers: Farm sector debt is forecast to increase 4.6% to $605.1B in 2026, while farm assets rise to $4.47T and equity to $3.86T. In inflation-adjusted terms, debt is still expected to climb 1.5%. That is not a barn fire, but it is definitely smoke coming from the operating loan folder. Where it pinches: Real estate debt is projected at $399B, and non-real estate debt at $206.1B. Solv

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Oct 12

Grazing Gets the Green Light

Federal grazing just got a fresh push, and ranchers holding Forest Service permits got the memo in actual letter form. Very vintage. Very Washington. Roundup request: Brooke L. Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, sent a letter to livestock ranchers with grazing permits on U.S. Forest Service allotments, telling them to put the June grazing directive to work. The policy aims to streamline and expand federal-land grazing while staying inside existing law and regulations. Op

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