Kansas Farm Bureau concerned about mandatory animal ID

Kansas Farm Bureau president Joe Newland says the biggest concern his organization is bringing to the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio is animal ID. “And where we go from there.” He tells Brownfield it needs to be voluntary. The post Kansas Farm Bureau concerned about mandatory animal ID appeared first on Brownfield Ag…Continue Reading

Nebraska Farm Bureau wants to capitalize on SAF potential

Nebraska Farm Bureau president Mark McHargue says his state has an opportunity to capitalize on the sustainable aviation fuel market. Speaking to Brownfield at the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio, Texas, he said Nebraska is developing a pipeline to capture carbon dioxide. “So I think using our ethanol or corn stover to go…Continue Reading

AGCO defeats John Deere’s patent infringement appeal

A Federal Circuit Court ruled Friday that AGCO has defeated John Deere’s appeal of a Delaware jury’s verdict in a patent-infringement case. In a statement, AGCO officials said Deere’s appeal involved Precision Planting’s SpeedTube product – a high-speed planting system. Deere claimed AGCO infringed on their intellectual property, but these arguments were rejected by the…Continue Reading

Be careful with fertilizer cutbacks

A crop nutrition lead at The Mosaic Company says the current state of the ag economy has many growers considering cutbacks on fertilizer applications.  Tryston Beyrer says making too many cuts could have longer-term impacts. “Fertility is a large portion of the budget,” he says. “Often times it’s 20% of our budget, but it can account…Continue Reading

AFBF expects Trump administration to narrow WOTUS reach

Another swing at Waters of the U.S.  AFBF senior director of government affairs Courtney Briggs says the WOTUS rule has been a long-standing problem for members. “Because we’ve had a ping-pong, back and forth of regulations over the last several decades, and unfortunately during the Biden administration we had a very troubling rule that created…Continue Reading

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