With the war in Ukraine entering its seventh month and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic still being experienced, growing challenges threaten the world’s economic and food security. Purdue University College of Agriculture experts in the areas of food and economic security and energy share their perspectives on these critical issues. Gebisa Ejeta, World Food […]
The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) officially launched Farmers for Prosperity, a network of agribusiness leaders committed to harnessing all American resources to feed the world. The announcement coincides with USGLC’s 2022 Heartland Summit which takes place in-person and virtually simultaneously on August 30 across three Heartland cities: Minnetonka, Minn.; West Lafayette, Ind.; and Wichita, […]
Moving into the post-pandemic era, an issue facing many industries is the U.S. labor shortage, and the meat processing industry is no different. Twenty-seven state agriculture departments operate state meat and poultry inspection programs enabling agriculture departments to be in a prime position to hear producers’ and meat processors’ needs for improving meat processing capacity. With fewer workers […]
Unlisted Holt Place is a fantastic Georgian property located in the Chichester Harbour Area of Natural Beauty and is on the market for the first time in 35 years. Annunciata Elwes takes a look. Not seen on the market for 35 years, Holt Place was once a duck-shooting lodge on the nearby Goodwood estate—sold in […]
The award-winning Melbourne resident went on to enjoy a 27-year plant industry research career with CSIRO and a further 17 years at Murdoch University, which included activity on chromosome structure and function in avian red blood cells, Drosophila, subclover, barley, rye and wheat. Click to check the original article.
Max Armstrong offers some history on the Farm Progress Show, which celebrates its 69th year. The show got its start in 1953 when the germinated to bring equipment to one place for farmers to get a look at the latest tools. The first show was in Vermillion County, Ill., on October 2, 1953 which drew […]
Top price bull Cree Nacho S128 (PP), with Cree Santas stud principal Shaun McGuigan, Randell Spann, Elders Studstock, Andrew Cavanagh, KellCo Livestock, and first-time buyers Bruce and Jo Russell, Grassbrook, Carrie Russell, John Noble and Marney, 4mths, , New South Wales. Picture by Ben Harden Click to check the original article.
Off a ram with an “illustrious” show career, according to Mr Rayner, the ram was the 2022 Sydney Royal Show champion ultrafine August-shorn ram as well as the grand champion ultrafine ram three weeks ago at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show, Bendigo, Vic. Click to check the original article.
Farmers attracted to latest spray rig from Goldacres at Dowerin GWN7 Machinery Field Days. Click to check the original article.
Two Mount Isa sisters have turned their love for western fashion and the outback into a clothing label. Click to check the original article.
Shearing is underway at Wattle Downs with a team of inexperienced young guns to get the wool in bales. Click to check the original article.
Angus x composite NSM heifers COMPOSITE breeding systems have had variable popularity in the Australian beef industry. For some of the larger pastoral companies including North Australian Pastoral Co, Australian Agricultural Co and others, as well as some southern-based producers, composites have been a mainstay of production since the 1990s. However, a properly managed composite […]