Have you ever learn the newest fertilizer information or replace on the unfold of avian influenza?
These tales and extra made the headlines immediately. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup.
Fertilizer
The U.S. Division of Agriculture introduced it can assist further fertilizer manufacturing for American farmers to deal with rising prices, together with the influence of Russia’s worth hike on farmers, and spur competitors.
USDA will make obtainable $250 million by means of a brand new grant program this summer season to assist unbiased, progressive, and sustainable American fertilizer manufacturing.
Brazil on Friday launched a nationwide fertilizer plan aimed toward decreasing its dependence on imports after the struggle in Ukraine and Western sanctions pushed up prices and threatened productiveness within the Latin American farming powerhouse.
The plan underscores concern in Brazil, the world’s largest importer of fertilizers, about inputs for main export crops comparable to soybeans, corn, and sugarcane, which account for 73% of the nation’s fertilizer use.
Ukraine and Russia
Ukraine should sow as many crops as doable this spring, regardless of the Russian invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Friday.
Ukraine is a serious world producer and exporter of grain and vegetable oils, however officers and farmers count on a decline within the 2022 harvest and exports because of the struggle.
World farm commodities dealer Cargill Inc stated on Friday it was scaling again its enterprise actions in Russia and has stopped investments within the nation, however would proceed to function “important” meals and animal feed amenities there.
Agriculture corporations have been slower than oil corporations and retailers to announce they’re curbing Russian operations.
Merchants are attempting to rearrange the export of Ukrainian-origin grain by prepare by means of western Ukraine’s borders, however the export capacities are very restricted, APK-Inform agriculture consultancy stated on Friday.
Ukraine’s state-run railway operator stated this week it was prepared to arrange agricultural exports by rail as a matter of urgency after closure of the nation’s Black Sea ports due to the navy invasion by Russia.
Crops Expertise and Administration
Editor Laurie Bedord writes concerning the newest mannequin in Raven Industries’ autonomous energy platform, OMNiPOWER 3200.
The brand new machine options added mechanical, practical, and aesthetic enhancements that enhance effectivity and make autonomy extra sensible for producers.
Editor Gil Gullickson writes, “There’s one other corn rootworm management choice coming down the pike for corn farmers. Corteva Agriscience unveiled its Vorceed Enlist expertise at this week’s Commodity Basic in New Orleans.”
Corteva officers say Vorceed Enlist is its subsequent era rootworm expertise that builds upon its Qrome corn lineup that’s been in the marketplace a number of years.
Over a 10-year interval, conservation tillage grew to become the most well-liked tillage observe on U.S. cropland, used on two-thirds of the land, stated a USDA company on Thursday.
The Pure Assets Conservation Service stated the observe, which leaves crop residue on a minimum of 30% of the soil floor to cut back erosion, had been adopted on 53.4 million acres by the mid-2010s.
Avian Influenza
Editor Madelyn Ostendorf has the newest on the unfold of avian influenza.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Well being Inspection Service confirmed the presence of extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a business layer flock in Taylor County, Iowa.
“Whereas this extra case of HPAI will not be surprising, we now have ready for this and are working intently with USDA and livestock producers to regulate and eradicate this illness from our state,” stated Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig.
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