Cream of the Crop

Cream of the Crop

Dairy demand is getting butter and butter. A Tuesday report from the U.S. Dairy Export showed increases in total exports of all dairy products at 13%. Other export increases: Cheese is up 18.1% Nonfat dry milk is up 15.4% Condensed and evaporated milk is up...
GrapeTech Is Crushing It

GrapeTech Is Crushing It

Southwestern French wine growers were hit hard this year with devastating frosts and blistering heat. But for Pierre Escudie, his Marselan, Grenache Gris, and Chardonnay grapes fared better than his neighbors’ thanks to the rows of solar panels above the vines...
How Farmers Feel About Now…

How Farmers Feel About Now…

Conservation programs to help farmers protect the soil, air, water, and wildlife on their land exist: but new data shows they’re pretty darn picky. Nearly 70% of those who applied to the programs during the past decade have been denied. A closer look: Between 2010 and...
Seed in Incognito Mode

Seed in Incognito Mode

Farmers Business Network (FBN) is blowin’ the seed industry’s cover with their recent Seed Relabeling Report. The problem: While FBN stays neutral on relabeling, they say their report provides transparency into a practice typically shrouded in secrecy. The relabeling...
AcreValue Finds a New Home

AcreValue Finds a New Home

More often than not, life boils down to who you know more than what you know. Ag-Analytics would probably agree with that and might even cite it as one of the reasons they recently acquired the farmland research platform AcreValue. Crunching numbers: AcreValue serves...