Post by rovingreporter on Aug 31, 2014 13:15:36 GMT
Huntington WV - Southern States closes store in Huntington due to declining sales and revenue.
Minnesota - Concern for declining prices for formerly booming farmland.
Florida - Citrus industry facing threat from small mottled brown bug called Asian citrus psyllid imported from China that carries a lethal disease which is left behind as the psyllid feeds on the leaves of the citrus tree.
Maryland - Farmers and residents alike still fighting the scourge of the imported brown stink bug. This bug destroys farm crops and garden vegetables than moves indoors when the weather cools and infects the interior of homes.
Illinois - Deere announces the laying off 460 employees indefinitely from a Waterloo IOWA tractor factory as it continues to adjust to market demand. This announcment follows the previous week announcement of the layoff of 600 employees in 4 midwest plants.
San Francisco - Co-owner of the northern Calif slaughterhouse in Petaluma, Rancho Feeding Corp has pled guilty to federal charges of processing cows with cancer while US livestock inspectors were on lunch breaks.
USDA launches "dairy margin protection" program. This program will subsidize dairy farmers when the difference between milk prices and feed prices shrink to a certain level.
North Dakota - Winter wheat crop hurt by Vomitoxin. The crop is showing high levels of this toxin associated with scab disease which makes the grain unsafe for both humans and animals.
US & Canada - All cattle and calves in the US and Canada combined totaled 108.3 million hed on July 1 2014 down 3 percent from 111.3 million on July 1, 2012.
Minnesota - Concern for declining prices for formerly booming farmland.
Florida - Citrus industry facing threat from small mottled brown bug called Asian citrus psyllid imported from China that carries a lethal disease which is left behind as the psyllid feeds on the leaves of the citrus tree.
Maryland - Farmers and residents alike still fighting the scourge of the imported brown stink bug. This bug destroys farm crops and garden vegetables than moves indoors when the weather cools and infects the interior of homes.
Illinois - Deere announces the laying off 460 employees indefinitely from a Waterloo IOWA tractor factory as it continues to adjust to market demand. This announcment follows the previous week announcement of the layoff of 600 employees in 4 midwest plants.
San Francisco - Co-owner of the northern Calif slaughterhouse in Petaluma, Rancho Feeding Corp has pled guilty to federal charges of processing cows with cancer while US livestock inspectors were on lunch breaks.
USDA launches "dairy margin protection" program. This program will subsidize dairy farmers when the difference between milk prices and feed prices shrink to a certain level.
North Dakota - Winter wheat crop hurt by Vomitoxin. The crop is showing high levels of this toxin associated with scab disease which makes the grain unsafe for both humans and animals.
US & Canada - All cattle and calves in the US and Canada combined totaled 108.3 million hed on July 1 2014 down 3 percent from 111.3 million on July 1, 2012.