innovation

The Fertilizer Institute released new data last week highlighting industry improvements in sustainability performance in key priority areas, including workforce safety, energy, the environment, and innovation.   “The industry is continuously working towards more sustainable operations, including efforts to decarbonize and mitigate environmental impacts,” said TFI President and CEO Corey Rosenbusch

Dairy operators looking to improve production, expand marketing and distribution, or looking to develop dairy products, funding to help is available.  Dairy farmers and processors in Washington, Oregon, as well as California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico are encouraged to apply for funding through the Pacific Coast Coalition Dairy Business Innovation Initiative.  It’s ex...

Innovation in the dairy industry has grown significantly over the last 50 years. But as Paul Ziemninsky of Dairy Management Inc. observed, "The people who may have driven volume growth last 40 to 50 years, those companies They've been bought ...

Agricultural innovations are important to the advancement of the specialty crop and niche agriculture sectors. Jim Bair of the U.S. Apple Association said one still under development for his industry, but available for other fruit and nut varieties, is mechanical harvesters. ... Read More ...

Are you familiar with agriculture's nutrient stewardship protocol, " The Four Rs"? "Using the right source of nutrient at the right rate, the right time, and the right place," said Lara Moody of The Fertilizer Institute. She added the protocol is not one, but rather a suite, of sustainability practices designed to reach preferred outcomes in the 4R system ...

When it comes to the path of agriculture and farming as well as Ag innovations and research over the next three decades or so, the USDA's Scott Hutchins says public input and stakeholder feedback is pivotal. "What we're really trying to do here is to find, based on the inputs, the discovery goals that will take us to that next era ...

It takes innovation to present beef products to consumers in more ways, and in recent years, one way that has taken form is new cuts of beef. "We found that we can make different cuts or different sizes different portions different applications that the consumer enjoys and wants to use in their daily lives," said Hugh Sandberg with the Cattlemen's Beef Board ...

During his November visit to Mexico, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue offered a preview of a potential 2020 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum session in which he hoped Western Hemisphere Ag leaders would participate.  At that time, Mexico's agriculture secretary accepted Secretary Perdue's invitation to join the session.  ...

In the dairy industry, sustainable practices and approaches on the dairy farm are not just environmentally focused.   “Domestic and international consumers and customers are increasingly demanding that dairy products and all food products be sustainability produced. It puts u...

Vice President Mike Pence said National Ag Day provides an opportunity to point out how advanced American agriculture has become.   "America's farmer's have long led the world in innovation and achievement, and as this group knows better than anyone, working in American agriculture today is a far, far cry from your grandfather's farm." ...