Growing Harvest Ag Network
Sarah Heinrich is both a rancher and a broadcaster for The Ag News Leader, KFGO & the Growing Harvest Ag Network. She’s the former KX-TV, Bismarck, Ag Director and the niece of another legendary North Dakota Ag Director, Al Gustin. She leads the KFGO 790-AM team as Farm & Ranch Director. Also part of the team is Farm and Ranch Reporter Sam Halstengard.
Episodes
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says near to above normal temperatures and precipitation can be found in most areas of the country for the period of May 28 - June 3.
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May is World Trade Month, and this is World Trade Week on the calendar.
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Mac Marshall, the vice president of market intelligence for the United Soybean Board, talks about what the May numbers mean for the soy market.
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Milk production in the 24 major milk-producing states during April reached 18.3 billion pounds, down 0.2 percent from April 2023.
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This Farm Talk segment is brought to you by North Dakota Corn.
NDSU Extension is hosting a Junior Crop Scout School at the Carrington Research Extension Center in June. The purpose of this program is to teach youth through a hands-on workshop basic crop scouting skills. Alicia Harstad is the NDSU Extension Ag and Natural Resources Agent for Barnes County.
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Export markets are an important sales outlet for American food and agricultural production. Since 2008, an average of 20 percent of the value of all U.S. agricultural output has been shipped to destinations in other countries.
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As drivers hit the road for the Memorial Day weekend, Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy, talks about the emergency E15 waiver and what it means for summer driving.
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Nicole Wardner with the North Dakota Beef Commission offers some fun ways you can feature beef on the plate this summer season.
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Farmers have been getting some seed in the ground. According to the latest crop progress report from USDA, in North Dakota 33 percent of the soybeans, 71 percent of the spring wheat and roughly half of the corn has been planted.
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The Economic Research Service reports that the cost of soybean seeds per acre has risen more than 260 percent since 1997, while total soybean production costs have risen 157 percent.
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Frayne Olson, an agricultural economist with North Dakota State University Extension, says there’s a lot of old crop to move yet.
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Pork prices have pushed higher in California because of Prop 12, and the National Pork Producers Council is seeing consumer backlash against it.
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It’s no secret in U.S. agriculture how valuable trade is to multiple sectors. Daniel Whitley, administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service.
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The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank determined that farmers in the Ninth District paid approximately $840 million in interest payments during 2023.
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The 2018 Farm Bill expired last year, and Congress passed a one-year extension of that bill. Joby Young, executive vice president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the time is now to get a new bill through Congress.
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A new report from The Hill says that pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and agriculture interests have combined to spend over $400 million lobbying Congress on a new farm bill.
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In this week’s headlines of Agri-Biz with Rusty Halvorson and Sarah Heinrich - a recent Minnesota Soy mission to Uzbekistan pays off, Minnesota's legislators were working hard ahead of a deadline on Monday, new faces on the Board at ND Corn, and agribusiness news with PTx Trimble.
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A new tool helps farmers track tar spot and researchers to learn more about the disease.
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USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski says he expects the world will produce a record large 798 million ton wheat crop this year.
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USDA meteorologist Mark Brusberg says a mixed bag of temperatures and mostly above normal precipitation are part of the nation's weather forecast for the period of May 21 - 27.
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