Winegrape Heat Challenges and Farm Bill Lacks Prop 12 Fix
From the Western Ag Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**Winegrape growers facing a hotter and more volatile climate may have several ways to protect the value of their vineyards.
The most profitable choice, according to the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, depends on how severe heat becomes.
Under mild warming, growers may be better off maintaining established vineyards and varieties.
Under more severe conditions, switching to a more heat-tolerant grape variety produced the strongest returns.
**The National Pork Producers Council welcomed progress on the farm bill, but said lawmakers must still address California’s Proposition 12 and the growing state livestock housing regulations.
NPPC President Rob Brenneman said pork producers need a five-year farm bill that protects them from having to modify production practices to comply with differing state animal welfare laws.
The group argues Prop 12 increases costs and creates uncertainty for more than 60,000 pork producers.
**President Trump's plan to buy potash from Belarus has drawn a warning from the leader of Canada's biggest potash-producing province, who says the fertilizer would have to be shipped through Russia.
On Truth Social, Trump wrote, "The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers."
Canada supplies the vast majority of our potash, a key
fertilizer ingredient.
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