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Season 50
ClipSeason50Episode5018
This week, the 118th Congress dissolved into chaos as a House continuing resolution was abandoned by the Republican majority. A shutdown of the Federal government now looms over the country.
ClipSeason50Episode5018
The 2024 World Food Prize Laureates had a strong connection before they partnered to lead the world on saving seeds at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The two were honored in Des Moines, Iowa this fall for their work.
ClipSeason50Episode5017
On Friday, October 24, 1975, Market to Market kicked off a 50 season run. This retrospective highlights the seasons between 1985 and 1995.
ClipSeason50Episode5017
This week, the H5N1 Avian Flu virus continued to disrupt agriculture across the country.
ClipSeason50Episode5016
Rural newspapers are rapidly disappearing, but one Kansas publishing company raises question about what leads to their struggles.
ClipSeason50Episode5016
In and amongst picking cabinet nominees like Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, President-elect Donald Trump continues to pressure major U.S. trading partners with the prospect of tariffs.
ClipSeason50Episode5014
The holidays are a chance for families to gather together to catch up on happenings with each other but sometimes the conversation can shift in a hurry.
ClipSeason50Episode5014
This week, the Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee released the text of her draft Farm Bill for consideration by the Senate Agriculture Committee in the lame duck session.
ClipSeason50Episode5013
The United Nations annual climate conference was held this week, with countries noting their progress in reducing the carbon emissions released by human activity that are believed to be amplifying climate change.
There's more to the international competition for world's largest pumpkin than just bragging rights.
After another cross-country haul, the current giant pumpkin world record holder fell short of his 2,749-pound feat from 2023, but still managed to top the scales again at the annual Half Moon Bay, California World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off.
ClipSeason50Episode5012
Amidst congratulations from foreign leaders, domestic agricultural groups and his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump capped a nearly 2-year long campaign-run by being elected the 47th President of the United States.
ClipSeason50Episode5012
Ash trees with thinning, upper canopies, flecked bark damage and shoots of new branches at the trunk have become an all too common site across the country.
ClipSeason50Episode5011
The annual event to honor and continue the legacy of Norman Borlaug featured speakers from all around the world. This year's focus was on the growing population of Africa.
ClipSeason50Episode5010
Economic and political rivals met this week to improve partnerships as a counterweight to Western economies.
ClipSeason50Episode5010
Dams block downstream movement of sediment which can deprive the downstream river system of an essential ingredient needed for fish habitats.
ClipSeason50Episode5009
A return of tariff politics would damage farm incomes, according to a study commissioned by the American Soybean Association and the National Corn Growers Association.
ClipSeason50Episode5008
Cars were seen trying to outrun tornadoes as the twisters were some of the first things to make landfall as part of Hurricane Milton. More than 100 warnings were issued Wednesday in the state.
ClipSeason50Episode5008
A potential solution is on the horizon against the increasingly costly hog disease PRRS: a genetically edited pig that the federal government is in the process of considering for commercial release.
ClipSeason50Episode5007
Clean up is slow in the path of Hurricane Helene as basic infrastructure needs are being restored even though the effects of the storm could be felt for decades.
ClipSeason50Episode5007
A strike by dockworkers on the East Coast has been suspended after an agreement on wage hikes was reached late Thursday.
ClipSeason50Episode5006
A study from Common Sense Institute looks at the disappearing options for health care in Iowa, especially in rural areas
ClipSeason50Episode5006
Former President Trump has threatened to use one of the trade tools he is famous for invoking to shape the farm economy. In a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, Trump promised to place tariffs on John Deere products made in Mexico.
ClipSeason50Episode5005
Experts say an adult can be submerged in a bin filled with corn or soybeans in as little as 20 seconds – a tragedy all too common in rural America.
ClipSeason50Episode5005
The ongoing spread of bird flu across the nations poultry and dairy herds poses a concern beyond those species.
ClipSeason50Episode5004
Proposition 12, the controversial California law that dictates how much floor space sows need if pork from their offspring is to be sold in California, doesn’t appear to have had an impact on how many Midwest hog farms operate. At least not yet.
ClipSeason50Episode5004
The remains of hurricane Francine continue to dump moisture on the southeast. When it made landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday it was a Category 2 storm, delivering winds of 100 miles per hour and 8 inches of rain in New Orleans. Across Louisiana 350,000 homes lost power.
ClipSeason50Episode5003
On Friday, October 24, 1975, Market to Market kicked off a 50 season run with its first broadcast under the name “Iowa Farm Digest.”
ClipSeason50Episode5003
Research into the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus that crossed from birds into the nation's dairy herd continues at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa.
ClipSeason50Episode5002
In 2015, Harold Wilken had a problem - he was farming 700 acres of organic grains, but was trucking it hundreds of miles from his eastern Illinois operation for use as animal feed.
ClipSeason50Episode5002
A burst of late summer heat swept across the country as at least 61 million Americans were under some form of a heat advisory this week.
ClipSeason50Episode5001
In the early days of the nation’s history, most clothing worn by Americans was made at home. Mass manufacturing of clothes didn’t take off until the late 1880s, rapidly growing into a booming industry centered in New York City.
ClipSeason50Episode5001
Canada’s two major railroads, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, locked out their workers Thursday morning, bringing rail traffic to a stop across Canada.
Season 49
ClipSeason49Episode4953
Earlier this year, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill banning the manufacture, sale, or distribution of food products in the Sunshine State that are made from cultured animal cells.
ClipSeason49Episode4953
Many Americans likely missed hearing about the regulatory shift a few years ago inside USDA allowing exemptions or speedier approvals of certain genetically altered plants.
ClipSeason49Episode4953
Multiple Midwestern states could be looking at record corn and soybean yields as harvest approaches.
ClipSeason49Episode4952
What began as Hurricane Debby was downgraded to a Category 1 storm as it made landfall in Florida on Monday, delivering winds of 75 miles per hour. The weather system has taken seven lives since Monday.
ClipSeason49Episode4952
A wave of new laws is sweeping across the country that add restrictions to foreigners ability to buy or lease farmland.
ClipSeason49Episode4951
An online search for: “Who was the first female veterinarian in the United States,” generates top results that are a bit misleading. No, it wasn’t Dr. Florence Kimbell. Nor was it Dr. Elinor McGrath.
ClipSeason49Episode4951
The Environmental Protection Agency will have to again review requests for dozens of exemptions to an ethanol mandate.
ClipSeason49Episode4950
This week, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on the declining condition of the farm economy.
ClipSeason49Episode4949
This week, a region from the Midwest to the East Coast was hammered by strong winds, heavy rains and tornadoes. Hundreds of thousands of customers were without power as record temperatures rolled-in and spiked thermometers across the path of the storms.
ClipSeason49Episode4949
Satisfying demand for the award-winning, globe-trotting cheddar cheese varieties crafted by Milton Creamery creates jobs and allows for profit-sharing with fellow Mennonite and Amish source dairies.
ClipSeason49Episode4948
This week, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to study the effects that policies of the Environmental Protection Agency are having on American agriculture.
ClipSeason49Episode4948
The growing season is always different for each producer. We check in with our two featured producers with one shared item - moisture - and how vastly different what's happened lately to each.
ClipSeason49Episode4946
Summit pipeline gets conditional greenlight to start construction and will be allowed to use eminent domain.
ClipSeason49Episode4946
Rain reaching totals normally used for snow were common in portions of three states with implications extending over major U.S. waterways
ClipSeason49Episode4945
U.S. deals with mixed bag of weather.
ClipSeason49Episode4945
The easy-to-miss sign along a central Iowa gravel road just west of the town of Traer runs a bit light on details, declaring only: "'Tama Jim' Wilson Home Site and Farm."
ClipSeason49Episode4945
While heavy rain on Wednesday provided some assistance to firefighters battling wildfires in New Mexico, the fires remain mostly uncontained.
ClipSeason49Episode4944
Farmer Lee Jones dons his trademark bib overalls, white shirt and red bow tie at his Ohio vegetable farm. The operation ships far and wide but starts with soil and the people who work on it.
ClipSeason49Episode4944
This week, Senator John Boozeman of Arkansas, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, released the Republican membership’s framework for the 2024 Farm Bill.
ClipSeason49Episode4944
Heavy rains hit the Southeast as the Plains remain dry
ClipSeason49Episode4943
Denver, known for its livestock heritage dating back to the Civil War, is now heading toward a voter-driven referendum that could shut down the city’s last packing plant.
ClipSeason49Episode4943
This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing on potential Farm Bill tweaks that could assist beginning farmers at the start of their operations.
ClipSeason49Episode4943
Far right EU farmers want to sweep away the current Green Deal. The ballot box is open and results will be tallied this weekend.
ClipSeason49Episode4942
Deadly run of storms extends with systems in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
ClipSeason49Episode4942
Advocates say lab-grown meat is good for the environment but lawmakers are still pushing back against the cell-cultured product.
ClipSeason49Episode4951
Studies are underway to get a better picture of how widespread mental health is a problem in rural America - especially when it comes in comparison to the rest of the population.
ClipSeason49Episode4941
The heartland was hit hard by tornadoes and flooding this week.
ClipSeason49Episode4941
This week, the House Agriculture Committee began the markup process of the 2024 Farm Bill. The markup process is the final step before a bill is presented to the House or Senate for debate.
ClipSeason49Episode4940
Animal scientists warn that livestock producers need to focus on genetic diversity in their animals to avoid losing traits that may be needed in the future.
ClipSeason49Episode4940
This week, President Joe Biden placed additional tariffs on selected imports from China, including electric vehicles, solar panels and steel.
ClipSeason49Episode4939
More storm damage again this week as the pace of tornadoes is way ahead as the tally nears 700.
ClipSeason49Episode4939
Widespread rain over the corn belt has slowed planting progress.
ClipSeason49Episode4939
U.S. pork and beef exports increase in weight and value.
ClipSeason49Episode4938
This week, after months of delays, both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees released their versions of the 2024 Farm Bill.
ClipSeason49Episode4738
This week, the Senate Committee on the Budget met to discuss claims that the energy sector has been downplaying the effects on the climate of oil and natural gas consumption.
ClipSeason49Episode4938
The end of April was a destructive one in the weather department. Tornadoes from Texas to Wisconsin left many fields littered with debris.
ClipSeason49Episode4937
Farming is often a balancing act between environmental sustainability and financial viability. On one side, you are out to make money and on the other, you are protecting your most valuable economic resource.
ClipSeason49Episode4937
The ongoing spread of High Path Avian Influenza in dairy cattle has been a puzzle for veterinarians to diagnose.
ClipSeason49Episode4936
Senate focuses on Biden trade policies as U.S. Trade Representative is called testify in the Senate Finance Committee.
ClipSeason49Episode4936
In 2019, the U.S. ran its first agricultural trade deficit in nearly six decades. Exports were still generally on an upward trend so few expressed concerns that imports had increased even more. But soon it happened twice again: in 2020 and 2023.
ClipSeason49Episode4935
The Search for Alternative Sources of Natural Rubber
ClipSeason49Episode4935
For nearly a decade, the nation's spotlight has shone squarely on livestock when it comes to concerns about antibiotic resistance. But now the global discussion is slowly bringing pet care into the discussion.
ClipSeason49Episode4934
The early April storm was no joke across much of the eastern United States as every state east of I-35 had some type of noteworthy weather report generated this week.
ClipSeason49Episode4934
An expert says the United States took its foot off the gas pedal with the management of wild pigs, which pose a future threat.
ClipSeason49Episode4934
Analysis of H5N1 avian flu samples have confirmed the infection has passed from birds to dairy cattle for the first time.
ClipSeason49Episode4932
This week, the House Agriculture Committee held hearings over the potential economic threats on rural America by China.
ClipSeason49Episode4932
Across South Dakota, rural residents have been able to take advantage of improved broadband and make a business in an isolated rural area viable.
ClipSeason49Episode4931
This week, the USDA announced more proposed rules to level the playing field between meat producers and processors.
ClipSeason49Episode4931
While many segments of agriculture were having a relatively strong year, the pork industry got pounded in 2023.
ClipSeason49Episode4931
March may have come in like a lamb, but it is becoming a lion.
ClipSeason49Episode4930
This week, the USDA released a new rule for the Packers and Stockyards Act, policies that oversee the meat industry in the United States.
ClipSeason49Episode4930
Power lines are being blamed for starting the largest wildfire in Texas history.
ClipSeason49Episode4929
Seven states are up against the clock to get a water deal reached over the Colorado River and who gets what allotment. As the 2026 deadline approaches, the food versus cities debate simmers over the precious resource. Kathryn Sorensen is the director of the Kyle Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University.
ClipSeason49Episode4928
What began as an experiment has turned into a side business for a Minnesota farmer.
ClipSeason49Episode4927
Even as economic reports have kept coming, the pace of government has slowed with few bills headed to open debate on the House or Senate floor.
ClipSeason49Episode4927
Submerged in brackish waters along the Connecticut coastline, newly nested oyster beds are helping restore the environment and protect generations of family tradition in New England aquaculture.
ClipSeason49Episode4926
Weeks of bitter cold weather with sub-zero temperatures have given way to another warm weather week with unseasonably high temperatures.
ClipSeason49Episode4926
Conversations about money and land can get awkward and heated in short order. Clint Fischer advices clients to assume nothing and work from there when having the talk about farm transitions.
ClipSeason49Episode4926
Farmer protests expanded across the European Union this week. Farmers in Bulgaria and Italy blocked traffic with their tractors in the expanding movement.
ClipSeason49Episode4925
After stalling in the middle portion of 2023, the last six months of land values showed resilience. Farmers National Company attributed the performance to commodity prices and the just how much cash was in farmers' pockets.
ClipSeason49Episode4925
Northwest Missouri farmer John Hickman remembers motorists slowing down to stare as they passed his first no-till field in 1983. The practice of leaving crop ground undisturbed until planting was uncommon enough that a lot of rubber-necking took place. Jump ahead 40 years and 74 percent of North Central and Midwest cropland acres are either no-till or reduced till.
ClipSeason49Episode4924
German lawmakers approved cuts to farmers’ fuel subsidies this week stoking the fire already burning between farmgate and the halls of government. Farmers in the Netherlands are expressing their anger over the cuts with their own blockades on the highways between Amsterdam and Brussels.
ClipSeason49Episode4924
The weather picture changed dramatically as the frigid air moved out, rain moved in - prompting melting in the Grain Belt. Meanwhile in the South, heavy rain lead to flooding.
ClipSeason49Episode4924
The University of Missouri's genetically edited hog herd helped researcher Kiho Lee secure a $3-million grant to help scientists better pinpoint any unintended consequences of their gene work.
ClipSeason49Episode4924
Over the past two months, protests by European Union farmers have been staged across Germany, the Netherlands and Romania railing against new EU regulations and cuts to agricultural subsidies.
ClipSeason49Episode4923
Ice in the West, snow and cold in much of the country in strong winter pattern.
ClipSeason49Episode4923
Ash trees with thinning, upper canopies, flecked bark damage and shoots of new branches at the trunk have become an all too common site across the country.
ClipSeason49Episode4923
This week, business leaders, top politicians and political activists gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
ClipSeason49Episode4921
Iowa has been in some form of drought for more than 4 years - the longest streak since 1958. California ended its extensive drought streak last year at this time - but 2024 is reverting back to the dry times in the Golden State. David Miller reports.
ClipSeason49Episode4921
The help wanted sign is hung in nearly every business’ door. Along rural main streets - the posting may go unanswered for a longer period of time. Some industries and communities have taken creative routes to grow the next set of employees through specialized high school classes. Peter Tubbs has more in our Cover Story.
ClipSeason49Episode4920
More than 500 flights were canceled out of Denver, Colorado as blizzard conditions struck a region accustomed to high snow amounts.
ClipSeason49Episode4920
Major outbreaks in storms, drought and heat headlined the year. So too, was a lack of progress on a Farm Bill among other items on the agenda for Congress.
ClipSeason49Episode4919
The 2023 World Food Prize Laureate Heidi Kuhn turned from her career in journalism to replacing land mines with vines in war-torn regions of the world.
ClipSeason49Episode4919
The East Coast led off the week with a wind swept mess that took at least five lives.
ClipSeason49Episode4919
Politicians, industry leaders and farmers object to rail closure at U.S. border; Panama Canal shipping, low water on the Mississippi and Red Sea shippers take a new route.
ClipSeason49Episode4918
Global trade adds about 11 percent to U.S. GDP. China is a big factor in that number.
ClipSeason49Episode4918
As response plans were being formulated following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Risk Management Agency, the USDA unit that handles crop insurance, announced a plan it hoped would boost production inside the U.S. to offset any losses in the former Soviet Union’s breadbasket.
ClipSeason49Episode4917
There is a study that suggests lowering the subsidy rate for high income farm operations could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
ClipSeason49Episode4917
If everything goes according to plan, the reduction in GHGs is expected to hold worldwide temperatures at 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.
ClipSeason49Episode4917
Professional loggers would like Midwest farmers to glance up from their fields to what they see as an overlooked resource.
ClipSeason49Episode4916
Water usage rises as alfalfa gains popularity between foreign and domestic land owners. Now policy changes may be coming to know how much water is being pumped from the ground.
ClipSeason49Episode4916
Producers work to handle recent HPAI outbreaks.
ClipSeason49Episode4916
In a recent decision, a federal circuit court ruled the EPA had invoked an “impermissibly retroactive” standard to hold a group of refineries to the terms of the RFS.
ClipSeason49Episode4914
This week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping got together in California for their first face to face meeting in nearly a year.
ClipSeason49Episode4914
This week, the House voted to keep the United States government open for another nine weeks.
ClipSeason49Episode4914
Several issues overhang trade relations with Mexico, the United States' second largest trading partner.
ClipSeason49Episode4913
In February of last year, High Pathogenic Avian Influenza returned to U.S. commercial flocks after a several year hiatus. Producers in Iowa, one of the country’s top poultry producing states, have seen new cases in just the last few months.
ClipSeason49Episode4913
A recent trip to India helps provide insight on areas of strength and improvement while providing opportunities for U.S. farmers and ranchers.
ClipSeason49Episode4912
Many Americans likely missed hearing about the regulatory shift a few years ago inside USDA allowing exemptions or speedier approvals of certain genetically altered plants. Inside a plant science center in St. Louis, however, plant researchers working on teff and other grains absolutely had the new rule on their radar.
ClipSeason49Episode4912
Subsidies for crop insurance may be increasing the cost of weather loss, according to an environmental advocacy group.
ClipSeason49Episode4912
Rural America was the target for at least three cabinet members and the president himself this week.
ClipSeason49Episode4911
On Sunday, a delegation that included China’s Ambassador to the U.S. Xie Feng, (ZHAY- Fehng), visited the Rick Kimberley farm in Maxwell, Iowa. The farm is the site of the 2012 visit by then Vice President of China Xi Jinping.
ClipSeason49Episode4911
The annual event in Iowa brings together big thinkers from various government, foundations and private industries all in an effort to enhance food security.
ClipSeason49Episode4910
The vote to find a new Speaker of the House has delayed much of the legislative process in Washington D.C. while also creating uncertainty for key bills close to the finish line.
ClipSeason49Episode4910
Plans for a multi-state CO2 pipeline project were scrapped Friday. Navigator CO2 Ventures announced they are canceling a bid to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol plants to underground sequestration locations.
ClipSeason49Episode4908
Two large California producers are suing smaller operators and land owners over the use of water.
ClipSeason49Episode4908
Safety is top of mind for fifth generation Nebraska row crop producer Zach Hunnicutt. He was just a child when his grandfather’s brother died in a grain bin accident.
ClipSeason49Episode4907
Russia and China caused shock waves on the fertilizer market over the last two years, but those movements have calmed.
ClipSeason49Episode4907
Hearing Held Over Foreign Farmland Ownership
ClipSeason49Episode4906
During opening debate at the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky defended his country’s attempts at maintaining port access to the Black Sea, which allows Ukrainian grain to be exported to global markets.
ClipSeason49Episode4906
An online search for: “Who was the first female veterinarian in the United States,” generates top results that are a bit misleading. It wasn’t Dr. Florence Kimbell, nor Dr. Elinor McGrath. The search should have favored a woman who graduated seven years earlier: Dr. Mignon Nicholson.
ClipSeason49Episode4906
Another summer of limited rain has greatly impacted shipping along the Mississippi River.
ClipSeason49Episode4905
For more than a year, a group of landowners and activists have been pushing back against the permitting and construction of the Summit Carbon Solutions CO2 pipeline. If it gets the greenlight, the project will stretch across 2,000 miles of five Midwestern states.
ClipSeason49Episode4905
Iowa senator sees extension likely in Farm Bill if no deal completed by Christmas.
ClipSeason49Episode4905
The market for sustainable aircraft fuel continues to grow, and the biofuel industry hopes it will replace biofuels usage as vehicles consume smaller volumes in the future.
ClipSeason49Episode4904
A section of a proposed CO2 pipeline was rejected this week. The South Dakota Public Utilities Board unanimously voted to deny Navigator CO2 Venture’s application to construct a CO2 pipeline on the basis that it did not satisfy multiple criteria in the application process.
ClipSeason49Episode4904
Donald Wentzel, a feed mill owner who had worked as a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, decided in the 1950s that the modest U.S. duck meat industry, then largely centered on New York’s Long Island, was based in the wrong place. He thought it would make more sense to raise the birds on less expensive real estate in a place where the corn and soybeans used in the birds’ feed was grown.
ClipSeason49Episode4904
Weather conditions in the northern hemisphere were hot again in August while corn and soybean conditions drop to their lowest levels since 2012.
ClipSeason49Episode4903
As Congress prepares to return from summer recess, the push to finish a Farm Bill gains strength and observers, including the insurance industry.
ClipSeason49Episode4903
Unpermitted development will be allowed in many wetland areas across the country under details released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week.
ClipSeason49Episode4903
The problem of food insecurity may have another ally - Artificial Intelligence. Once the issue of efficiency is solved then the problem of fairness in distribution comes into play. AI could also assist in making sure food is used and not wasted due to logistical constraints.
ClipSeason49Episode4902
For the first time in 84 years, a tropical storm hit the West Coast of the U.S. Meantime, the heat of summer was turned to extreme this week with 126 million Americans in some form of heat advisory.
ClipSeason49Episode4902
Farming is often a balancing act between environmental sustainability and financial viability. On one side, you are out to make money and on the other, you are protecting your most valuable economic resource.
ClipSeason49Episode4902
This week, the Iowa Utilities Board began what is expected to be several weeks of evidentiary hearings. When they are finished, the Board will determine if a construction permit will be granted for the controversial Summit Carbon Solutions CO2 pipeline.
ClipSeason49Episode4901
Victor Tsvyk harvested 170,000 bushels of wheat this month. But after Russia exited a wartime deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain to other parts of the world, he has no idea where his bounty will go or how his farm will survive.
ClipSeason49Episode4901
While the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the global economy, the repercussion carved into rural America was its own animal. Advocates say unemployment, mental health and food security issues hammered many areas already in the midst of long-term decline.
ClipSeason49Episode4901
Mexico and the U.S. have reached an impasse over an import ban on genetically modified corn.
Season 48
ClipSeason48Episode4852
Officials with Summit Carbon Solutions have begun requesting voluntary land leases along a new segment of its controversial Midwest Carbon Express pipeline.
ClipSeason48Episode4852
A Connecticut diary turns cow waste into biodegradable Garden products
ClipSeason48Episode4851
Rising land values have advantages for investors looking for place to park money and those selling challenging new buyers to find a place to enter the market.
ClipSeason48Episode4851
The U.S. continues to be gripped by above normal temperatures and pounded by precipitation that comes in torrents.
ClipSeason48Episode4850
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it will use $300 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to monitor agricultural emissions, including the creation of a research network to monitor carbon levels in soil.
ClipSeason48Episode4850
Official temperatures from around the globe are showing that July is set to be the hottest month on record for the entire planet.
ClipSeason48Episode4850
Livestock producers in parts of Nebraska and the southern Plains states have endured moderate to exceptional drought for much of the spring and summer. Early July rains may have settled the dust in some areas, but they didn’t ease concerns about hay prices and supply.
ClipSeason48Episode4849
This launch isn’t shooting for the moon or a distant planet. No rocket boosters are needed. And the passengers inside? Insects.
ClipSeason48Episode4849
The Russian government ended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative Monday.
ClipSeason48Episode4849
A recent federal disaster declaration will help ease the pain of the estimated millions of dollars in damage.
ClipSeason48Episode4848
Farmland prices experienced a leveling off in the first half of 2023 according to Farmers National Company, a real estate and property management firm.
ClipSeason48Episode4848
The first call for assistance is often difficult, and producers frequently don’t understand where the problems lie.
ClipSeason48Episode4848
As high high bakes more than a dozen states, parts of the Northeast spent much of the week waiting for two months of rain to recede before cleaning up. Meanwhile the drought keeps a firm grip on the Grain Belt.
ClipSeason48Episode4847
We have two producers we are following this year on their progress. For Chad Bell in Viola, Illinois, significant rain finally arrived in late June. What did come was spotty but will be enough to get the corn through pollination. Mike Schulte's story in Oklahoma is one of rain falling very late season on wheat and now creating new decisions from producers.
ClipSeason48Episode4847
Saturday marked the start of a new month, quarter and for many states - new laws. For example, Iowans are now able to buy and sell unpasteurized milk - making it state number 29 that allows the purchase of the raw product. Peter Tubbs reports.
ClipSeason48Episode4846
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack hit the road this week in Michigan promoting the administration’s efforts to expand market access for producers and healthy meal options for children.
ClipSeason48Episode4846
The supply chain challenge of 2020 and 2021 sparked responses from creative thinking and turned into opportunities and diversity in how goods get from one point to another.
ClipSeason48Episode4846
A major change in conditions as drought areas are stricken with severe storms as hazy skies loom over much of the eastern U.S.
ClipSeason48Episode4845
When Penn State scientists dug into the family trees of North America’s Holstein herd and found that 99.75 percent of modern-day Holstein bulls were descended from two born in the 1880s, it raised concerns about too little genetic diversity in livestock.
ClipSeason48Episode4845
This week, the EPA issued its final rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, production requirements for 2023-2025.
ClipSeason48Episode4845
A recent survey of land owners in Iowa shows much is debt-free, but also owned by retired farmers and not foreign buyers.
ClipSeason48Episode4844
Conditions worsen in key grain growing regions of the country with another week of limited rain and increasing temperatures.
ClipSeason48Episode4844
Less than 10 years ago, casinos, local businesses and governments parlayed their influence into a deal with the Iowa legislature to phase out millions in state gambling subsidies, which had kept tracks afloat.
ClipSeason48Episode4844
Work on the 2023 Farm Bill continued this week with testimony on the infrastructure needs of rural America. Financing the modernization of aging water systems in rural communities was a repeated topic.
Season 47
ClipSeason47Episode4752
When is a recession a recession - The chair of the Chicago Fed speaks.
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As years-long arid conditions grip the western U.S., producers in Europe are enduring their continent’s worst drought in decades.
ClipSeason47Episode4752
During the megadrought, Colorado and Nebraska fight over water rights.
ClipSeason47Episode4751
Duluth and Cleveland ports are both now handling dedicated container ships, hoping to help ease congestion elsewhere.
ClipSeason47Episode4751
Several thousand residents are still waiting for power and drinking water to be restored.
ClipSeason47Episode4750
After rallying in vain against the Dakota Access Pipeline, activists in Iowa brought reinforcements to push back on a new proposal to transport a different hazardous material beneath the state’s fertile landscapes.
ClipSeason47Episode4750
Monday, the House Ag Committee held its fourth listening session of the year in Rice County, Minnesota. The previous session had occurred in the Western United States, and speakers there focused on water issues.
ClipSeason47Episode4749
Culling the herd to stay above water.
ClipSeason47Episode4749
The 2021 growing season offered a challenging dry-weather test for many sunflower-growing regions, and some may struggle this year as well.
ClipSeason47Episode4749
This week, the House Ag Committee held a hearing on possible changes to the crop insurance system that subsidizes the prices farmers pay to insure their crops against weather loss.
ClipSeason47Episode4748
Harvest is underway in Ukraine despite nearby fields being on fire and the need to avoid shell holes or unexploded ordnance.
ClipSeason47Episode4748
Iowa is a leader in several farm commodities, but collateral damage – in the form of runoff-impaired waterways – has spurred legal actions designed to thwart pollution linked to agriculture. While ultimately dismissed, those moves may have helped cultivate renewed interest in farm conservation.
ClipSeason47Episode4748
Owners of small and medium size meat processors gather to examine what the future might hold for their industry.
ClipSeason47Episode4747
New rules for drones may help agriculture.
ClipSeason47Episode4747
A derecho damaged crops in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
ClipSeason47Episode4747
Holiday week is a good time for a crop progress report with two producers we spoke to in the spring. Here's Paul Thomas and Cameron Peirce.
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Sec. Tom Vilsack announces new initiatives in a trip to the Midwest.
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The R-CALF challenge to the constitutionality of the Beef Checkoff was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
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Shawn Tiffany was recently in front of the Senate Agriculture committee testifying on a litany of bills aimed at the livestock industry. As an independent owner/operator, the story is personal to his family and community.
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Senate Ag Committee opens a gate for cattle producers
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Less than 10 years ago, casinos, local business and governments parlayed their influence into a deal with the Iowa legislature – to phase-out millions in state gaming subsidies which had kept tracks afloat even as dog racing declined nationwide. This year the well ran dry.
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The Supreme Court of the United States rejected an appeal from Bayer AG to shut down thousands of lawsuits over the safety of glyphosate.
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Historic flooding in Yellowstone National Park will likely close parts of the destination for months. Much of the U.S. also baked under 100 degree temps as summer is just beginning.
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The WTO chief insisted that trade has lifted 1 billion people out of poverty, but poorer countries – and poor people in richer ones – are often left behind.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the deepening drought in the western U.S.
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California producer Joe Del Bosque is entering another year of growing several crops with less water from the sky and his allotment. Our conversation looks his farm, water story and hopes for the pending harvest.
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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to California's Prop 12 this fall.
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On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations invited witnesses to discuss the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP and the Farm Safety Net.
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The USDA announced funds for a series of projects intending to make the U.S. food system more resilient.
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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic triggered economic fallout leading to job losses for tens of millions in the U.S. alone. For one recent college graduate, being laid-off was the final nudge he needed to branch-out - by returning to his roots.
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The Russian blockade of Ukraine may keep millions of tons of grain off of global markets, would could lead to famine in dozens of countries.
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