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AI Gets Into the Insurance Business

Crop insurance has a new pitch: What if a field with fewer problems got a smaller bill? Farmers have been asking versions of that question for years. Now the algorithms want a turn at the kitchen table. Field of dreams: Aon, SAGE and AgriCap are launching a precision insurance program for corn and soybean producers in 15 states for the 2027 crop year. Rather than treating every acre as the county average, the program uses field-level risk intelligence to help tailor supplemen

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AI Gets Into the Insurance Business

Crop insurance has a new pitch: What if a field with fewer problems got a smaller bill? Farmers have been asking versions of that question for years. Now the algorithms want a turn at the kitchen table. Field of dreams: Aon, SAGE and AgriCap are launching a precision insurance program for corn and soybean producers in 15 states for the 2027 crop year. Rather than treating every acre as the county average, the program uses field-level risk intelligence to help tailor supplemen

Technology

11 minutes ago

A Butter Battle Is Brewing

Butterfat helps pay the bills on dairy farms. Naturally, Washington has found a way to turn a feed ingredient into a tariff argument. The cows, as usual, were not consulted. Fat chance: U.S. officials are weighing duties on fatty acids from Indonesia and Malaysia, including palmitic acid, a common component of supplements fed to lactating cows. The investigation covers alleged unfair pricing and subsidies, while officials consider exclusions for certain products. Milk math: P

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The Produce Inspection Problem

A salad is supposed to be a healthy decision, not an act of blind faith. But the inspection trail behind imported produce has some uncomfortable holes. Inspection deficit: An analysis of federal records found the FDA had inspected just 7.6% of major overseas fresh-produce facilities responsible for 90% of shipments into the United States since 2009. For Mexican facilities, the figure was about 2%. Those figures measure site visits, not whether every unvisited farm is unsafe.

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Fertilizer Gets a $573M Homegrown Boost

Western Water Rights Go to Court

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AI Gets Into the Insurance Business

Crop insurance has a new pitch: What if a field with fewer problems got a smaller bill? Farmers have been asking versions of that question for years. Now the algorithms want a turn at the kitchen table. Field of dreams: Aon, SAGE and AgriCap are launching a precision insurance program for corn and soybean producers in 15 states for the 2027 crop year. Rather than treating every acre as the county average, the program uses field-level risk intelligence to help tailor supplemen

Technology

11 minutes ago

A Butter Battle Is Brewing

Butterfat helps pay the bills on dairy farms. Naturally, Washington has found a way to turn a feed ingredient into a tariff argument. The cows, as usual, were not consulted. Fat chance: U.S. officials are weighing duties on fatty acids from Indonesia and Malaysia, including palmitic acid, a common component of supplements fed to lactating cows. The investigation covers alleged unfair pricing and subsidies, while officials consider exclusions for certain products. Milk math: P

Livestock

13 minutes ago

The Produce Inspection Problem

A salad is supposed to be a healthy decision, not an act of blind faith. But the inspection trail behind imported produce has some uncomfortable holes. Inspection deficit: An analysis of federal records found the FDA had inspected just 7.6% of major overseas fresh-produce facilities responsible for 90% of shipments into the United States since 2009. For Mexican facilities, the figure was about 2%. Those figures measure site visits, not whether every unvisited farm is unsafe.

Policy

16 minutes ago

Houston, We Have a Farm Problem

Farmers have been looking to the heavens for decent weather since roughly the invention of farming. Now NASA wants to help with something a little more technical than crossing fingers. Ground control: On October 24, USDA and NASA signed an agreement to combine Earth observation, geospatial analytics and advanced data tools. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman formalized the partnership in Alabama. The goal is better agricultural informat

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3 days ago

Bird Flu Is Still Ruffling Feathers

Bird flu has delivered another painful blow to the egg industry, this time at a large Illinois laying operation. There is no clever upside to losing nearly a million birds. By the numbers: Federal officials confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza affecting 934,600 laying hens in Clinton County, Illinois. Local officials identified the premises as a Rose Acre Farms site near Germantown. Rose Acre ranks among the largest U.S. egg producers. What happened? The affected flock

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Maine Gets a Tariff Break

Maine growers may finally have one less expensive item on the farm shopping list. Naturally, Washington found a way to make that good news come with a new tariff twist. Border adjustment: The administration plans to remove tariffs on selected Canadian goods important to Maine farms and food businesses. The exemptions, announced October 23, are scheduled to take effect October 30. They cover machinery used for cleaning, sorting, grading, packing and wrapping agricultural produ

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Fertilizer Gets a $573M Homegrown Boost

Washington is putting serious green behind making more fertilizer at home. Whether that delivers cheaper nutrients before the next planting season is a different question. Money in the ground: USDA selected eight fertilizer manufacturing projects for about $573 million in proposed federal funding. With private and other investments included, the package totals more than $1.34 billion. Domestic capacity is the goal, not an immediate fertilizer clearance sale. Why now? Global s

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Oct 23

Western Water Rights Go to Court

Western farmers are learning that a water right can be written on paper and still leave a field painfully dry. Two cases in the Pacific Northwest are putting that problem before judges. First in line? Idaho growers Jerry and Valerie Bingham, who farm 1,000 acres near Blackfoot, are challenging restrictions that stopped them from pumping groundwater. Their right dates to 1950. They argue the state treated their claim unfairly while allowing certain newer users to keep drawing

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AI Gets Into the Insurance Business

A Butter Battle Is Brewing

The Produce Inspection Problem

Houston, We Have a Farm Problem

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Fertilizer Gets a $573M Homegrown Boost

Western Water Rights Go to Court

The Farm Data Is Talking. Is Anybody Listening?

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

ALL THE LATEST NEWS

AI Gets Into the Insurance Business

A Butter Battle Is Brewing

The Produce Inspection Problem

Houston, We Have a Farm Problem

Bird Flu Is Still Ruffling Feathers

Maine Gets a Tariff Break

Fertilizer Gets a $573M Homegrown Boost

Western Water Rights Go to Court

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