by Travis Martin | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Everything’s bigger in… California? At least when it comes to funding rounds for indoor, vertical farming. Retail giant Walmart was among the latest investors pouring millions into Plenty Unlimited—which just became the most-funded vertical farming operation ever. The...
by Travis Martin | Jan 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Waters of the United States” might finally get a clear definition, as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take on a WOTUS case—and decide what water regulations farmers and other landowners will abide by. What’s on the docket? SCOTUS will review the 9th...
by Travis Martin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening a once-blind eye to its responsibility to comply with the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and it has farmers raising an eyebrow. Why now? The EPA gets to determine whether active ingredients (AI) could be harmful to...
by Travis Martin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
New estimates of Florida’s orange crop are not so sunshiney: The USDA is predicting the lowest production figures since 1945. The current estimate is 44.5M 90-pound boxes, down 1.5M from last month’s forecast. Consumers may have to keep their...
by Travis Martin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Uber for agriculture is just around the corner, and Agtonomy is making it happen. Using a mobile phone app, a farmer can assign a job to one of his or her tractors, which is basically like calling an Uber driver to the farm to do the work. As demonstrated by John...
by Travis Martin | Jan 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is sending a clear message to America’s farmers: Don’t farm naked—plant cover crops… LOTS of them. At the recent American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Atlanta, Vilsack unveiled the USDA’s plan to double the number of U.S. corn and...
Recent Comments