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Agridime Ponzi scheme case progressing

United States District Court Judge Mark T. Pittman for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division has recently entered a preliminary injunction against Jed Wood, Josh Link and Agridime LLC following the discovery of a $191 million Ponzi scheme, a move that essentially continues the Securities and Exchange Commission case that was filed against […]

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Farm Progress America, February 13, 2024

Mike Pearson examines the ruling out of the U.S. District Court in Arizona Feb. 6 that revoked the registration of Dicamba for use on cotton and soybeans. The ruling removed the registration from three popular herbicides: The three herbicides were part of a new class of herbicides that made the Dicamba less prone to drift. […]

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Planned and impulse heifer breeding

The January Cattle report from USDA-NASS has included the inventory of beef replacement heifers since 1920. The latest USDA Cattle report pegged the January 1, 2024 beef replacement heifer inventory of 4.86 million head, down 1.4 percent year over year. However, the latest report revised the initial estimates of the 2023 inventory from 5.16 million head down […]

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Genetic Innovation in the Outback: the BreedNorth WA Project

THE BreedNorth project in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia is working towards improving the understanding and application of modern genetic evaluation tools in this remote pastoral region. A Western Australian state government funded initiative with oversight from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, the project is making the expertise of […]

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South Coast Beef School Steer Spectacular ramps up in 2024 | The Land

The school’s team of 15 to 20 students, led by teachers Renee Lidgard and Bronwyn Hilaire, aim to take five steers to this year’s school spectacular – two South Devon steers bred by Lee Pippard, Tannoch South Devons, Gerringong, two Angus steers bred by Dr Toby Greenacre, Jaspers Brush, and one Speckle Park steer bred […]

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