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4 days ago · The Illinois AgriNews and Indiana AgriNews staff is in the field each week, covering topics that affect local farm families and their businesses. We give readers information they can’t get ...
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Ensuring the safety of low-moisture foods – AgriNews
Dec 16, 2024 · WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Low-moisture foods such as dried fruits, seeds, tree nuts and wheat flour were once considered to carry minimal microbial risks. However, the increased number of outbreaks ...
Researchers develop model to evaluate food safety control …
18 hours ago · The model framework includes five stages: primary production, harvesting, processing, retail, and consumer handling. At any stage, the user can estimate the possibility of contamination; increase ...
Purdue tests effects of perennial cover crops on soil health and …
Dec 16, 2024 · The researchers conduct their experiments at the Water Quality Field Station located at Purdue’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education.
New technology could boost corn demand – AgriNews
Nov 4, 2024 · BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — A groundbreaking technology has been developed that could boost domestic corn demand by over a billion bushels. Cameron Rylance, Bluestem Biosciences vice president of ...
Low prices, high input costs keep ag sector flat – AgriNews
Nov 7, 2024 · The St. Louis Federal Reserve District includes the southern parts of Illinois and Indiana and eastern half of Missouri, as well as parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi.
A Year in the Life of a Farmer: Dry, hot conditions impacting corn ...
Oct 4, 2024 · The 104- and 105-day corn was planted the last week of April. “The corn is standing good and it’s at 25% moisture,” Elmer said. “One of the varieties is at 235 bushels and the second one ...
Six decades of ag’s transformation: The evolution of ... - AgriNews
Mar 13, 2024 · • Irrigated area grew by a factor of 2.3 times between 1961 and 2020 to 343 million hectares; water use in agriculture now accounts for about 70% of total global freshwater withdrawals.
Analysis shows tariff-induced trade war hurts farmers
Nov 4, 2024 · U.S. corn exports to China fall about 2.2 million metric tons annually, an average decline of 84.3% from the baseline expectation. Although the export quantity decline is much lower for corn than ...