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According to the latest Census of Agriculture, the Midwest is home to less than 10% of the country’s farmers who identify as Hispanic. This makes it the region with the second-lowest Hispanic representation among farmers, behind only the Northeast. Nationwide, Hispanic farmers total 112,379, representing only 3% of all...

GRAPHIC: Midwest is home to less than 10% of Hispanic farmers

Arkansas State

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. farm production expenditures report says higher input costs and lower commodity prices are threatening to shrink profits for farmers this year. The report says U.S. farms spent $481.9 billion on expenses necessary to run farming operations last year. That’s up 6.5% from 2022.

Rising costs, lower commodity prices threaten U.S. farmers’ profits

How big is the U.S. cattle herd? Budget constraints have caused the USDA to limit the number of reports it releases. Among these is the July Cattle Inventory Report. However, there is enough historical context from which some conclusions may be drawn. “A model estimates the July 1 U.S. cattle...

Cattle Herd Contraction Appears To Be Continuing

KYIV, Aug 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's August forecast for Ukraine's corn production exceeds domestic estimates as it does not fully take into account the impact of a damaging heatwave, Ukrainian officials, analysts and traders said. The USDA report shows Ukraine is expected to harvest 27.2 million...

USDA crop forecasts for Ukraine exceed domestic estimates

Iowa State

CHICAGO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The lower cost of growing soy versus corn, floods in some areas and a quick winter-wheat harvest drove the U.S. government to raise its soybean-production forecast to a record high this week, farmers and analysts said. A record harvest from the world's second-biggest soybean producer...

U.S. farmers grow record soy crop, ditch pricier corn

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Modern Farmer. Standing knee-deep in an emerald expanse, a row of trees offering respite from the sweltering heat, Rosa Morales diligently relocates chipilín, a Central American legume, from one bed of soil to another. The 34-year-old has been coming to the Campesinos’ Garden run by the Farmworker Association of Florida in Apopka for the last six months, taking home a bit of produce each time she visits. The small plot that hugs a soccer field and community center is an increasingly vital source of food to feed her family.

The people who feed America are going hungry

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Louisiana State

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles, as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low- to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ is larger than average this year, the size of New Jersey

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A hacking group allegedly leaked 2.7 billion pieces of data.

Everyone's Social Security Number Has Reportedly Been Compromised in a Massive Data Hack

With the USDA cancelling its regularly scheduled July cattle inventory report due to budget cuts, a question that many would like to have answered is: How big is the U.S. cattle herd?. Fortunately, historical relationships between changes in prior and subsequent inventories and levels of cow slaughter in between or...

How big is the U.S. cattle herd?

* An Investigate Midwest analysis shows the areas with the largest increases in farmland prices have lost the most farmers. * Large investment firms are driving up farmland prices. In many cases, farmland is sold at prices multiple times the regional average. * The cost increases have hit young and...

As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out

This story was originally published by Grist. One in 11 people worldwide went hungry last year, while one in three struggled to afford a healthy diet. These numbers underscore the fact that governments not only have little shot at achieving a goal, set in 2015, of eradicating hunger, but progress toward expanding food access is backsliding.

One in 11 people went hungry last year. Climate change is a big reason why.

The number of farms contracted to raise chickens for slaughter dropped by a third from 2002 to 2022. At that same time, the number of chickens raised on these farms grew 6%. There were more than 20,000 farms in the country that raised broiler chickens, or chickens raised for meat processing, in 2002. Twenty years later, that number declined 32%, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture census data.

GRAPHIC: Chicken farms are getting bigger and bigger — and fewer and fewer

The Guardian

ONS data shows strong performance in second quarter with the service sector helping drive growth

UK economy continues recovery from recession with GDP growth of 0.6%

North Dakota State

This August a food program for Spirit Lake Nation in northeastern North Dakota had to send people home without block cheese and pork. Soon the center will be without dozens of items, and they don’t know when the shortages will end. Since May, many enrolled in the Food Distribution...

Tribal food assistance program in shambles after USDA warehouse consolidation

Michigan State

In a rare rebuke to the industrial farm sector, the Michigan Supreme Court last week ruled that state environmental regulators have full authority to require big livestock and poultry operations to improve their handling of billions of pounds of manure that contributes to serious contamination of state waters. The 5-2...

Michigan lands a victory in effort to rein in polluting farm waste

According to the USDA dairy margin Coverage Program, June reported the best margins in two years. However, trends could shift by year's end. Chris Galen, Senior Vice President of Member Services and Strategic Initiatives with the National Milk Producers Federation on dairy economics and expectations for the rest of 2024.

Dairy Prices Strong

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck areas near Las Vegas on Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS). The quake, which occurred at 8:06 p.m., was centered approximately 45 minutes from Las Vegas, near Indian Springs.

Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Shakes Areas Near Las Vegas

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Alabama State

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sent out long-awaited payments to minority farmers and others in need of aid, but some say it’s not enough to offset years of discrimination. The department issued more than $2.2 billion in payments to more than 43,000 farmers across the country in the...

Federal aid addresses discrimination for thousands of farmers after years of delay

WASDE August 2024 Wheat Outlook: Due to lower production, U.S. wheat supplies are projected to decrease, while global wheat supplies are expected to rise slightly despite reduced production in the EU and the U.S. WASDE Coarse Grains Outlook: U.S. corn production is forecasted to increase slightly, though global coarse grain...

WASDE August 2024 Estimates Highlights

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GRAPHIC: Nearly one-third of Midwest ag exports sent to Asian markets

The majority of Midwest-produced agriculture exports remain in North America, but nearly one-third are sent to Asia. The Midwest exported $13.28 billion in agricultural products in...

GRAPHIC: Nearly one-third of Midwest ag exports sent to Asian markets

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