07/02/2009 08:57AM
Is your farm income dependent on the export market? If you are raising sweet corn, pumpkins, and other domestic vegetables, there is probably not much dependency. But if you are raising corn, soybeans, and hogs, there is a substantial impact. Even though hog profits are elusive, $32 of the value of every
06/29/2009 01:20PM
CHICAGO, June 29, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today took part in the Obama Administration's 'United We Serve' initiative by serving lunch to kids at St. Agatha's Family Empowerment (S.A.F.E.) in Chicago, Ill. The Obama Administration's 'United We Serve' initiative is designed to make volunteerism
06/02/2009 01:41PM
Seeking out ideas, solutions and perspective is even more important today as you work on revising risk-management strategies to fit new and changing paradigms. At World Pork Expo, June 3-5, this year’s Marketing Information Center will include seminars on managing every aspect of your production operation
06/02/2009 01:40PM
Looking back, the spring of 2008 was certainly a wild ride for pork producers — along with just about everyone else associated with agriculture.
As pork producers attended last year’s World Pork Expo spring rains and rising flood waters placed mounting pressure on the season’s unfolding crop outlook
06/02/2009 01:39PM
President Barrack Obama last week signed legislation that is designed to help more farmers and ranchers restructure their loans versus being forced into foreclosure. According to Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) who introduced amendments to the 'Helping Families Save Their Homes Act.
06/02/2009 01:13PM
LANCASTER, Pa.—Dairy farmers are facing overwhelming odds, especially in these months of low milk prices, the tumbling economy and the regulations they face in trying to feed the world.
The prices are causing farmers to scramble to find ways to keep afloat in the hopes that milk prices will rise
05/29/2009 01:39PM
World trade volume is expected to drop between 6 and 9 percent in 2009, as the recession continues in 2009 in the developed world. For the first time in over 50 years, household spending is likely to shrink in major developed countries. World GDP, valued at current exchange rates, is expected to fall