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The city’s last milk plant, closing after nearly 100 years in business
New York Daily News | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsAfter nearly 100 years in business, the iconic Queens, New York dairy that provided milk cartons to New York City schools is closing up shop. The owners of Elmhurst Dairy announced that the last remaining milk processing plant in the five boroughs will close at the end of October. It currently employs 273 workers. “My family was dedicated to trying to keep the plant open long past the years that it was economically viable because it was the wishes of its founder, Max Schwartz, that future generations of the family continue the business,” said Elmhurst Dairy CEO Henry Schwartz. The famil
USDA Proposes Updates to Animal Welfare Act Regulations f
USDA | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe U.S.
Corn and Soybean Revenue Projections for 2016 and 2017
Farm Doc Daily | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsWhile considerable uncertainties still exist, revenue projections for 2016 and 2017 are provided in this article for the average of high-productivity farms located in central Illinois. The 2016 revenue projections provide an indication of whether 2016 will be a better or worse income year than 2015, a year in which net incomes on many grain farms were extremely low. The 2017 projection provides information useful when making cash rent, input purchase, and crop choice decisions for 2017. Overall, revenue for 2016 likely will be lower than in 2015.
A new rift in the farmlands
Daily Yonder | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Rural NewsThe Christian Science Monitor describes a “a new class divide,” this one in rural America. Patrick Jonsson tells us that a new class of “super farms” is concentrating income in fewer hands. “The widening gulf between the haves and have nots is not limited to the Rust Belt’s cast-off manufacturing workers, working class suburbanites, or inner-city poor working on a stagnant minimum wage,” Jonsson writes. “The same trends have taken hold in farm country, though in different forms.
Lamenting Hillbilly Elegy
Daily Yonder | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Rural NewsWe’re now approaching the Everest level in our march to the total narcissistic society: Thirty-somethings are writing their memoirs.
Ag Economy Barometer:Long-term outlook strengthens
Purdue.edu | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsAs the dust settled on what turned out to be a volatile June and early July for commodity markets, agricultural producer sentiment has turned higher (Figure 1). The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, which is based on a monthly survey of 400 agricultural producers, came in at 112 for July, up from 104 in June and 97 in May. The improvement in producer sentiment occurred despite the fact that grain and oilseed prices declined sharply in late June and early July, the report said, adding that the uptick in sentiment was driven by producers' expectations for the future.
Canada aiding antimicrobial feed additive development
Watt Ag Net | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Federal NewsCanadian government invests CA$3.4 million to help AbCelex Technologies develop new line of antimicrobial poultry feed additives to battle Salmonella, Campylobacter
Oregon egg handler numbers surge
Capital Press | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsBetween 2005 and 2015, the number of licensed egg handlers in Oregon more than doubled, from 81 to 189, according to ODA records. Though growers don’t need a license to sell eggs directly from a farm stand or at a farmers’ market, many want to be able to supply grocery stores and restaurants
Washington breaches dike to convert farmland to fish habitat
Capital Press | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Rural NewsExcavators breached a dike Monday that for more than a century had protected farmland, furthering a state and federal plan to convert thousands of acres of agricultural fields into salmon habitat in the Skagit Delta. Excavators started digging a gap in the 12-foot-high dike in the morning. By late afternoon, Puget Sound’s high tide was spreading saltwater over 131 acres that previously grew crops such as broccoli, red potatoes and vegetable seeds.
Ohio, Pa. and N.Y. in early stages of drought
Farm and Dairy | Posted onAugust 4, 2016 in Agriculture NewsAccording to the US Drought Monitor, released July 28, almost all of northeast and northcentral Ohio was in a “moderate drought,” the first of four levels of drought severity.
The moderate drought continues in northcentral Pennsylvania, and the majority of both states are classified as “abnormally dry,” a step before drought. The worst conditions are in the northernmost counties of Pennsylvani and into New York, where counties are suffering “severe drought,” or the second level of severity.