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Potash Gets Political

The U.S.-Canada trade fight is drifting from border drama into fertilizer anxiety, because apparently crop planning was not already enough of a trust fall with weather, input prices and machinery that beeps only when it wants money. Border nutrients: Canada’s retaliation list includes dairy products and agricultural equipment, and the bigger worry is that the fight could expand toward potash. The U.S. imports more than 80% of its potassium from the Elk Point Basin in Saskatch

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Potash Gets Political

The U.S.-Canada trade fight is drifting from border drama into fertilizer anxiety, because apparently crop planning was not already enough of a trust fall with weather, input prices and machinery that beeps only when it wants money. Border nutrients: Canada’s retaliation list includes dairy products and agricultural equipment, and the bigger worry is that the fight could expand toward potash. The U.S. imports more than 80% of its potassium from the Elk Point Basin in Saskatch

Farming

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USDA Data Enters the Group Chat

USDA is trying to modernize agricultural data collection, which means the agency has entered the “maybe the spreadsheet should not be held together with duct tape and hope” phase of government technology. Data detox: The new plan aims to reduce repeated producer questions, improve accuracy and make agricultural statistics more useful. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled it at Farm Progress Show after farmer frustration over report reliability got loud enough to ratt

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Beef Grades Get a Gut Check

The federal beef yield grade system is having a midlife crisis, except it is 60 years old and still grading carcasses like the cattle never discovered feed efficiency, bigger frames or the modern urge to become a couch with hooves. The wrinkle: Feeders are sending increasingly fatter cattle to slaughter after longer days on feed, chasing pounds in a market where beef still has more pricing power than a county fair lemonade stand. Dale Woerner, Texas Tech University meat scien

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Potash Gets Political

The U.S.-Canada trade fight is drifting from border drama into fertilizer anxiety, because apparently crop planning was not already enough of a trust fall with weather, input prices and machinery that beeps only when it wants money. Border nutrients: Canada’s retaliation list includes dairy products and agricultural equipment, and the bigger worry is that the fight could expand toward potash. The U.S. imports more than 80% of its potassium from the Elk Point Basin in Saskatch

Farming

1 hour ago

USDA Data Enters the Group Chat

USDA is trying to modernize agricultural data collection, which means the agency has entered the “maybe the spreadsheet should not be held together with duct tape and hope” phase of government technology. Data detox: The new plan aims to reduce repeated producer questions, improve accuracy and make agricultural statistics more useful. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled it at Farm Progress Show after farmer frustration over report reliability got loud enough to ratt

Policy

1 hour ago

Beef Grades Get a Gut Check

The federal beef yield grade system is having a midlife crisis, except it is 60 years old and still grading carcasses like the cattle never discovered feed efficiency, bigger frames or the modern urge to become a couch with hooves. The wrinkle: Feeders are sending increasingly fatter cattle to slaughter after longer days on feed, chasing pounds in a market where beef still has more pricing power than a county fair lemonade stand. Dale Woerner, Texas Tech University meat scien

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USDA Service Gets Put on Hold

Farmers can handle paperwork. They would just prefer the paperwork come with a human on the other end of the counter. Office hours: Staffing losses across USDA are making basic services harder to reach in parts of farm country, from loans and grants to conservation technical help. In one reported example, New Mexico farmers Mary and Zachariah Ben waited months for a USDA loan tied to a 47-acre expansion. Private financing helped fill the gap, which is a polite way of saying t

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EPA Hands Refiners a Biofuel Hall Pass

The rumor mill became a rulemaking mill, and corn country is once again standing near the blender with one eyebrow raised. Waiver math: EPA announced decisions on 34 small refinery exemption petitions for 2025 Renewable Fuel Standard obligations. The agency granted 18 full exemptions, 11 partial exemptions, denied three and found two ineligible. That is not a tiny paperwork shuffle. It is a stack of fuel policy receipts big enough to make ethanol plants start stress-chewing c

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Beef Herd Gets a Booster Shot

Washington is trying to rebuild the cattle herd, which is adorable because cows still insist on using biology instead of a policy memo. Herd help: The new Ranchers First Initiative gives producers a few more tools to keep females in the pasture instead of sending the future to town. The package includes a Beef Retention and National Development endorsement, letting producers insure the economic value of breeding over a two-year period through livestock risk protection. Grass

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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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