The center of the week is buzzing with information.
If you should atone for the newest headlines, here’s a roundup.
Equipment and Gear
Editor Alex Grey covers what a few of the main producers are saying in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
They embrace: CNH Industrial, AGCO, and John Deere & Co.
Editor Alex Grey additionally writes about proper to restore, which has turn out to be a sizzling subject once more for the reason that Biden administration in July launched an govt order selling competitors within the financial system.
Farmer and Senator Jon Tester says, “I’ve been a farmer my entire life, and I’ve seen the unfair practices of kit producers make it tougher and tougher for people to work on their tractors themselves — forcing them to go to a licensed mechanic and pay an arm and a leg for crucial repairs.”
“Gear producers have all the time supported a farmer’s proper to soundly preserve, diagnose, and restore their tools,” says Stephanie See, director of state authorities relations for AEM. “That’s the reason we stay dedicated to serving to farmers scale back downtime and maximize productiveness.”
On the Nationwide Farm Equipment present this yr, Kubota launched new compact tractors.
On this video, product supervisor Beau Woodbury gives a walkthrough of the most recent options.
On the Farm
Shawn Williamson, licensed public accountant, writes the takeaways from a College of Illinois Farmdoc webinar about how the Russian-Ukrainian battle could impression commodity costs and crop insurance coverage choices earlier than the March 15 crop insurance coverage deadline.
“Backside line,” says Williamson, “The world is altering extra quickly than we’ve seen in a long time, and also you’re going to need to be nimble with planting, buying, and insurance coverage choices.”
The Wednesday, March 9, USDA World Agricultural Provide and Demand Estimates report got here in near pre-report estimates, writes Al Kluis.
The principle curiosity within the report was the South American and international manufacturing estimates. The USDA often doesn’t make modifications of their estimates as quick as personal forecasters, Kluis says.
The Biden administration ought to encourage bigger home meals manufacturing to blunt the disruptions in international provides created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, stated the Republican chief of the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday.
“There’s been no change in USDA’s place,” responded USDA spokeswoman Paige Blanchard. Final week, the USDA stated it was not contemplating recommendations for emergency cropping of the Conservation Reserve.
Ag Security Consciousness Program Week is March 7-11 and at present’s focus is on catastrophe preparedness.
Click on the hyperlink beneath to study extra about learn how to put together for warmth sicknesses, wildfires, pure disasters, and using respirators.
Poultry and Cattle Information
Following a security overview, U.S. meals regulators stated short-haired cattle produced via gene enhancing will be raised for meat manufacturing.
Meat from the cattle might be out there for buy in as little as two years, stated the Meals and Drug Administration.
Since February 8, 2.8 million industrial and yard birds throughout 12 states have been depopulated due to avian influenza infections, writes Editor Madelyn Ostendorf.
“It is not likely a matter of if one other outbreak happens, it is a matter of when,” says Dr. Yuko Sato, poultry extension veterinarian and diagnostician at Iowa State College. “We’ve detected it. We’ve seen it in wild waterfowl, we have positively seen it in industrial poultry. The one factor producers can do to organize for that is to have good biosecurity.”
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