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U.S.-E.U. Reach Trade Deal and California's Last Sugarbeet Plant Shutters
The Agribusiness Update
The U.S. and the European Union announced the framework of an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade, and California’s last factory that turns sugarbeets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years.
U.S.-E.U. Reach Trade Deal and California's Last Sugarbeet Plant Shutters
The Agribusiness Update
The U.S. and the European Union announced the framework of an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade, and California’s last factory that turns sugarbeets into sugar is shutting down after 78 years.
2025 Idaho safflower planting
Idaho Ag Today
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service projects Idaho’s planted potato acres total 315,000 this year, the same as last year.
Idaho potato crop
Idaho Ag Today
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service projects Idaho’s planted potato acres total 315,000 this year, the same as last year.
Southern Pine Beetle Season Returns to Georgia Forests
Southeast Regional Ag News
The Georgia Farm Bureau shares new data from the Georgia Forestry Commission showing elevated beetle activity in west-central counties—raising concerns for pine timber across the Southeast.
Japanese beetle invasion
Idaho Ag Today
It may seem at times that the Idaho ag department is playing whack-a-mole with the Japanese beetle.
Spreckels Sugar to Shutter Brawley Plant
California Ag Today
The nearly 100-year-old facility will process its final crop in 2025. Company officials cite high production costs and market challenges as reasons for the closure, which will impact nearly 450 workers and dozens of Imperial Valley growers.
Hemp in Idaho
Idaho Ag Today
Since it first became legal to produce hemp in Idaho, in 2022, acres have more than doubled each year, from 459 in 2022 to 1,274 in 2023 to 2,668 in 2024.
Samantha Parrot
Idaho Ag Today
As promised a few days ago. A profile on some prominent women in agriculture in Idaho.
Wheat is number 1
Idaho Ag Today
In terms of total acres, wheat is the No. 1 crop in the Pacific Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Sugar beet video
Idaho Ag Today
The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation put out a fun, entertaining and informative video on one of Idaho's hardiest crops sugar beets.
Japanese Beetle Treatment and Rural Broadband Improving
The Agribusiness Update
The Washington State Department of Agriculture’s Pest
Program is seeking permission from property owners to treat their yards for Japanese beetle, and Rural Broadband Association released its “2024 Broadband-Internet Availability Survey Report,” capping off a year in which NCTA members made remarkable strides in delivering robust and reliable high-speed connectivity in the most rural parts of the country
Read More UF Grant to Combat Avocado Disease and Small Family Farms Rule
The Agribusiness Update
University of Florida scientists secure $5 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to combat the lethal Laurel wilt disease, and USDA’s 2024 America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance says 86% of U.S. farms are small family farms.
WSDA Invasive Pest Trapping and USDA Future Farm Expenses
The Agribusiness Update
The Washington State Department of Agriculture has wrapped this year’s trapping for invasive pests, and the USDA’s Farm Labor Report, released November 20, offers a glimpse into the future of farm expenses.
WSDA Invasive Pest Trapping and USDA Future Farm Expenses
The Agribusiness Update
The Washington State Department of Agriculture has wrapped this year’s trapping for invasive pests, and the USDA’s Farm Labor Report, released November 20, offers a glimpse into the future of farm expenses.
Tough times for ag
Idaho Ag Today
As expected, the total value of Idaho’s agricultural production declined in 2023 compared with the record year of 2022.