After dropping below growth neutral for 20 straight months, the Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index moved above the 50.0 threshold for May according to the latest monthly survey of bank CEOs in rural areas of a 10-state region.Continue
The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on the farm economy conditions Thursday, May 25th, beginning at 9:00 a.m central. The hearing is recognized as the start of the Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill hearings.
A budget plan President Donald Trump is expected to submit to Congress Tuesday includes steep cuts to farm subsidies, according to Bloomberg News. The 2018 budget proposal, which would begin the process of balancing the budget within ten years.
According to Texas Congressman Kevin Brady: America's farmers and ranchers need pro-growth policies that will help them compete and win across the globe - but especially here at home.
The final planting date for corn from the USDA Risk Management Agency Topeka Regional Office in the majority of Kansas is May 25th. After the final planting date there is a late planting period that extends for 20 days after the final plant date.
In the Northern Plains Region (Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) there were 32,000 workers hired directly during the week of April 9-15, 2017, Farm operators paid their hired workers an average wage of $14.02 per hour.
Sonny Perdue made his first appearance before the House Agriculture Committee recently as Secretary of Agriculture. He says the current U.S. agricultural economy is in dire straits but that could be helped by a stronger trade presence abroad.
Heavy rains of 2 to more than 6 inches have fallen over the last several days in portions of the western corn belt. UNL- Extension's Roger Elmore discusses survival of young corn plants in ponded or flooded fields.
The Trump administration has officially laid out its strategies to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico in a letter delivered today to Congress. The administrations main goal is to update the Clinton-era trade deal.
Chefs, dietitians, bloggers and food service professionals were guest on the Beef Experience Tour hosted by the Nebraska Beef Council on May 9th and 10th. The tour attendees were visitors from states across the country.
Volunteer wheat is a host for the wheat curl mite, the transmitter of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV), the disease that is crippling the western Kansas wheat crop.