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USDA deputy secretary Krysta Harden talks to girls in a food and agriculture class at Peekskill Middle School in Peekskill, N.Y. Harden visited the school’s garden where students proudly showed off their crops in the school’s High Tunnel. Peekskill Middle School installed a High Tunnel in the school’s garden thanks to the High Tunnels in Schools Grant. Girls are not only good at food technology, Harden says, they can also have an edge because of their sharp entrepreneurial skills and their drive to make a difference.
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A million women farmers

To get big numbers of women farmers, the U.S. looks to small farms

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Reading Time: 6 minutes According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the number of female-operated farms in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 2012. On top of that, if you add in the number of women who participate on male-led or jointly led farms as primary and secondary operators, the U.S. now has nearly one million female […] Read more
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Finishers, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. Nov. feedlot cattle placements slump to record low

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Cattle movement into U.S. feedlots in November fell 11 per cent from a year ago to their lowest level since the government began compiling the data in 1996, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed on Friday. Analysts attributed last month’s much smaller-than-expected placements to deteriorating margins that prompted feedyards to […] Read more
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Crops, Markets, Reuters

USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast that U.S. farmers will raise corn plantings and cut back on soybean acreage in the 2016-17 marketing year. USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist estimated that farmers would seed 90.5 million acres of corn during the spring, 2.1 million more than they did in 2015-16. […] Read more
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Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn hold in trading range

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Reading Time: 2 minutes CNS Canada — Supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture held few surprises and had only limited effects on Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybeans — both rangebound in the short term, according to one U.S.-based analyst. “That report was pretty non-eventful right now,” said Scott Capinegro of Barrington Commodity Brokers. […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: COOL news weighs on CME live cattle, hogs

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Monday, partly led by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling against the U.S. in a meat-labeling dispute, said traders. Canada and Mexico may impose tariffs worth $1 billion onto U.S.-traded products, a WTO panel ruled on Monday, as the countries prepared to retaliate […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Corn, Crops, Reuters

USDA regulators approve new Syngenta corn trait

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — Syngenta on Wednesday cleared one U.S. regulatory hurdle toward domestic marketing of corn seeds containing a trait that is genetically engineered to resist weed killers including glyphosate. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said it will no longer regulate the Syngenta Seeds corn trait known […] Read more
(Lisa Guenther photo)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn has upside potential, soy rangebound

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade are moving based on demand, which indicates corn will move higher while soybeans stay steady, according to a U.S.-based analyst. Traders are looking to the next U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) supply and demand report, due out Wednesday (Dec. 9), according to […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Poultry, eggs from seven U.S. states still blocked at border

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Reading Time: 2 minutes While the U.S. has declared itself free of high-path avian flu, Canada is still warning cross-border travellers not to bring in poultry or eggs from seven previously affected states. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on Thursday — a.k.a. Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. — rolled out a statement to remind travellers that Canada’s restrictions […] Read more

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