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2025.02.24
‘Corn Remains King’: CoBank Forecasts U.S. Farm Acreage Shifts in 2025
With increasing prices and price competitiveness in the last few months, CoBank is forecasting corn to pull acres from soybeans, spring wheat, cotton, and grain sorghum across U.S. farms in 2025.
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2025.02.21
Turkey Flock in Sac County, Iowa, Hit by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
The highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a commercial turkey flock in Sac County, according to a Wednesday press release from Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
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2025.02.20
Billions of Dollars at Stake for Farmers Hit by Trump Funding Freeze, Pause on Foreign Aid
Farmers across the United States are finding themselves in precarious economic positions, as they attempt to navigate a strained farm economy and a barrage of executive orders from the Trump administration that put some farm programs in limbo.
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2025.02.19
Green Climate Fund greenlights two major FAO-led projects to strengthen climate resilience in Kenya and Serbia
The initiatives worth over $130 million will benefit over 6 million people and address the interconnected challenges of climate change, agriculture, forestry, and energy security
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2025.02.18
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Detected in Buena Vista County, Iowa
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Thursday it had detected the highly pathogenic avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Buena Vista County.
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2025.02.17
How Is Weather Affecting South American Crops?
Projected record crops in Brazil and Argentina take hits in the face of extreme heat and lack of rain.
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2025.02.14
Avian flu spread sees 1.8 million farmed birds culled
Almost 1.8 million farmed and captive birds have been culled in the past three months because of the spread of avian flu across the UK, the BBC has learned.
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2025.02.13
USDA Defies Expectations, Holds Corn and Soybean Ending Stocks Steady
U.S. 2024/2025 wheat ending stocks are lowered, when an increase was expected.
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2025.02.12
The ‘Billion-Dollar Pest’ Reappears in Canada, Connecticut
European corn borer once wreaked havoc on corn until the introduction of Bt corn. Is the pest making a reappearance?
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2025.02.11
Growing together on the path to sustainable coffee farming in Viet Nam
In the heart of Viet Nam’s coffee-growing region, farmers are learning, through programmes led by the ILO and Nestlé, how protecting their own health and safety is key to ensuring a sustainable future.