The widely anticipated summer economic boom is well underway and U.S. consumers are spending on services again. Jobs are abundantly available, but workers are scarce as the labor market is healing more slowly than most economists expected. According to a new Quarterly report from CoBank’s Knowledge...

Concerns that the international shipping crisis will get worse for U.S. agricultural exports before it gets better are being raised again. Shipping container costs continue to rise and incentives to "dead-head" empty containers to Asia for quicker turnaround are at the root of these concerns.

A landmark new bill that would legalize marijuana would also create a legal pathway for the use of cannabidiol, or CBD, in dietary supplements. That would open up a commercial opportunity for industrial hemp producers.

AquaBounty Technologies has settled on Pioneer, Ohio, as the location for a large-scale farm to raise its genetically engineered Atlantic salmon. The 479,000-square-foot operation will be able to produce 10,000 metric tons of fish a year. It’s eight times the size of AquaBounty’s farm in Albany,...

A decision that many producers around the country were dreading was recently made when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) seeking to challenge Proposition 12 in California. This...

The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer leveled off after two months of declines, down just 3 points to a reading of 134 in July. Both producers' sentiment regarding current and future conditions also dropped slightly. The Index of Current Conditions was down 6 points to a reading of...

Many people have contacted your CAD team saying they had been too busy to watch AgRally live. Well, they are in luck! The good news is there is a way to see it now! We have a connection to the recorded version of AgRally 2021 that can be accessed on our social media page. But better yet, why not...

Source: blog by Gary Truitt, Hoosier Ag Today radio networkIt was 1979, and the hamburger was safely secure atop the fast food menu. While there were many variations, all hamburgers began with ground beef. If you wanted chicken, you had to visit Colonel Sanders, who had the only major fast-food...

Could hemp be the next leafy green grown in winter vegetable rotations? At least one University of Arizona scientist sees the value of hemp in desert systems not in the CBD it can produce for oil, but in fiber, seed, and the possibility of a leafy green version that can be consumed by humans.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed the constitutionality of the beef checkoff program in a challenge brought by the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF).

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Dominican Republic. This is the first time ASF has been found in the western Hemisphere since the 1980s.

Readiness in the U.S. armed forces is comprised of many factors, but "food insecurity" impacts physical and mental health, according to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy in a virtual panel discussion at the Center for Strategic and International...

For those of you who have been in FFA, you know that the youth organization is larger than just their chapter, their region, or even their state. The National FFA Organization is vital to its community and its members. For many FFA members, the organization molds them into hard-working individuals...

Western farm groups are welcoming progress on a Senate bill that would provide $8.3 billion in new funding for Western water projects.

The U.S. has now collected more than $96 billion in tariffs from China during the trade war that started during the Trump administration, according to new data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The Trump administration justified the tariffs after the Commerce Department conducted a...