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Canada Tariffs Put Ag Equipment in the Crosshairs

The U.S. and Canada are now doing that neighborly thing where everyone smiles at the mailbox while pricing out retaliatory tariffs. The list: Canada says counter-tariffs will take effect Sept. 8 on products covering $27.6 billion in U.S. imports, with rates of 15%, 25% and 50%. The targets include steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Nothing says “stable trading partner” like making lawn mowers read customs law. Farm machinery mat

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Cow Wearables Enter the Methane Chat

Cows have officially entered their wearable-tech era, and somehow the Apple Watch still does not track cud. Strap in: ZELP commercially released ZELP Sense, a device designed to measure methane and carbon dioxide from individual cattle in real farm settings. The system sits near the nostrils, ships data through automated transfer and reports emissions through an app, because apparently even burps need a dashboard now. The point: The company says the wearable has gone through

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Biofuel Waivers Throw Ethanol Into the Blender

Biofuels had finally found a little tailwind, so naturally Washington grabbed the weather machine. The rumor mill: Reports that EPA may grant nearly double the expected number of small refinery exemptions from 2025 Renewable Fuel Standard obligations have rattled biofuel groups. The concern is not tiny. If nearly all refinery requests get a pass, industry leaders say roughly 1 billion gallons of biofuel demand could disappear from the blend pile. Backstory barrel: EPA already

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Canada Tariffs Put Ag Equipment in the Crosshairs

The U.S. and Canada are now doing that neighborly thing where everyone smiles at the mailbox while pricing out retaliatory tariffs. The list: Canada says counter-tariffs will take effect Sept. 8 on products covering $27.6 billion in U.S. imports, with rates of 15%, 25% and 50%. The targets include steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Nothing says “stable trading partner” like making lawn mowers read customs law. Farm machinery mat

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Cow Wearables Enter the Methane Chat

Cows have officially entered their wearable-tech era, and somehow the Apple Watch still does not track cud. Strap in: ZELP commercially released ZELP Sense, a device designed to measure methane and carbon dioxide from individual cattle in real farm settings. The system sits near the nostrils, ships data through automated transfer and reports emissions through an app, because apparently even burps need a dashboard now. The point: The company says the wearable has gone through

Livestock

3 days ago

Biofuel Waivers Throw Ethanol Into the Blender

Biofuels had finally found a little tailwind, so naturally Washington grabbed the weather machine. The rumor mill: Reports that EPA may grant nearly double the expected number of small refinery exemptions from 2025 Renewable Fuel Standard obligations have rattled biofuel groups. The concern is not tiny. If nearly all refinery requests get a pass, industry leaders say roughly 1 billion gallons of biofuel demand could disappear from the blend pile. Backstory barrel: EPA already

Farming

3 days ago

Canada Tariffs Put Ag Equipment in the Crosshairs

The U.S. and Canada are now doing that neighborly thing where everyone smiles at the mailbox while pricing out retaliatory tariffs. The list: Canada says counter-tariffs will take effect Sept. 8 on products covering $27.6 billion in U.S. imports, with rates of 15%, 25% and 50%. The targets include steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. Nothing says “stable trading partner” like making lawn mowers read customs law. Farm machinery mat

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Beef Supply Band-Aid Gets the Cattlemen Snorting

Meat case math: President Donald Trump wants cheaper ground beef, so Washington is reaching for the oldest trick in the pantry: more supply, now served with a generous helping of “don’t ask where it came from.” The plan would let up to 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings enter the U.S. for 90 days without the out-of-quota tariff, tied to a promised 25% discount. The sizzle: Consumers are still staring down record-high beef prices, and the U.S. herd is sitting near a 75

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6 days ago

Deere Workers Reject the Easy Button

No deal, Deere: UAW members at John Deere voted down a proposed contract extension that would have stretched the current agreement through 2029. The offer included 4% annual wage increases, $3,000 yearly bonuses and no major changes to pensions or health care, which sounds tidy until workers remember job security also exists. Green machine tension: Shawn Fain, UAW president, said workers know their worth and want the company back at the table in 2027. Deere said it was disapp

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Ag Risk Tools Meet the Bug Buffet

Pest control, but make it financial: Agriculture has entered the era where the risk menu includes old pests, new outbreaks and supply chains that can bruise if someone looks at them too hard. Recent disruptions have put a spotlight on whether producers and small businesses have tools that work before a crisis arrives carrying a clipboard. Bug buffet: New World screwworm is back on the national radar, and USDA is coordinating a One Health response across animal and public heal

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Top Gun Takes the Grass

Top Gun may need more room to buzz the desert, but Nevada ranchers say the expansion is taking a bite out of the ground that keeps their cattle business alive. The fence line: The Fallon Range Training Complex expansion is moving forward after Congress approved a major modernization that adds land ranges, airspace changes and infrastructure upgrades. The Navy says the Bravo ranges and Dixie Valley Training Area were too cramped for realistic training. Ranchers hear that and m

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STREAM Program Gets in the Weeds

The Department of Health and Human Services is now wandering into weed control, which is the kind of sentence that makes every agronomist check whether they missed a memo. Spray drift: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing the new STREAM program toward pesticide monitoring, next-generation herbicides, drift modeling, drones and nonchemical weed control. The idea, per the program, is to reduce messy chemical exposure while still leaving farm

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