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2025.04.28
Illinois Farmers Make Soybean Gains While Corn Lags Behind
Illinois farmers are experiencing a mixed start to the 2025 planting season, with corn planting behind historical pace while soybean progress is slightly ahead of schedule, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress Report released April 21.
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2025.04.25
Take Inconsistent Seed Quality into Consideration When Planting Soybeans
Handling and planting tips to get the most out of lower-quality soybean seed.
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2025.04.24
House Ag Republicans Eyeing Early May for Spending Cuts
House Republicans are eyeing May 8 for the Agriculture Committee to advance its portion of the mega bill to enact President Donald Trump’s vast domestic agenda.
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2025.04.23
FAO launches AIM4NatuRe to improve monitoring of ecosystem restoration
Cutting-edge technology and data will bring transparency and accountability to global restoration commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
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2025.04.22
AI tech for egg farms gets £2.6m from government
The UK government has allocated £2.6 million to support the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology aimed at enhancing egg farming operations.
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2025.04.22
Trump to Tap America First Policy Institute Leader for USTR Chief Ag Negotiator
President Donald Trump will nominate Doug Hoelscher, an Iowa veteran of the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, to serve as chief agricultural negotiator.
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2025.04.21
Legislation Sets Regulations for Anaerobic Digesters on Livestock Operations in Iowa
A bill advanced from the Iowa House Thursday that would regulate anaerobic digesters, or systems that break down organic material in an oxygen-deprived system to produce usable biogas and fertilizer, at animal feeding operations.
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2025.04.18
FAO launches a $150 million Emergency and Early Recovery Response Plan for Ukraine to support war-affected rural communities
The war in Ukraine continues inflicting pressure on the agricultural sector, making it increasingly difficult for farmers and rural families to continue food production and sustain their livelihoods.
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2025.04.17
Two years since the start of the conflict, Sudan is facing a severe food security catastrophe
Five things you should know about Sudan's food security crisis
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2025.04.16
Farmers in 5 More States Begin Planting Corn
The 2025 planting season has officially begun in 11 top corn-growing states, according to the latest USDA report.