Late spring and early summer are busy times for farmers, but they can also be dangerous times. Severe storms, tornadoes, lightning strikes, flooding and the like can interrupt business, damage or destroy crops, or kill or severely injure livestock. Now you have a new one – agroterrorism. Certainly more emphasis has been put on agroterrorism [...]
Six things to consider before setting up shop at the Farmers Market – the NEW Produce Sales Mecca
April 30th, 2010The local farmer’s market is now in vogue. Farmers market surveys from across North America are uncovering surprising findings – the local farmers market has become a mecca for produce sales. Iowa Department of Agriculture’s 2009 Farmers Market Economic Impact Survey shows a 92 percent increase in sales over the last five years at Iowa’s [...]
9 Ways to Reduce your Herd’s Eco-Impact
April 29th, 2010It’s hard to imagine that farmers and agribusiness owners wouldn’t embrace environmental sustainability. Yet plenty of agriculture operations are just as detrimental to the health of the ecology as a plant dumping toxins directly into a river. That’s because today’s high-yield food needs often put farmers in the position of using chemicals and growth hormones [...]
Six Winter Dangers Affecting Livestock
March 22nd, 2010Hard winters wreak havoc on humans, but the weather poses a deadly threat to livestock herds. With this season’s record snowfalls and frigid temperatures, agribusiness owners are forced to work harder to keep the herds safe and healthy. Warm spring temperatures followed by heavy snowfall will add more stress to already stressed herds. Farmers facing higher [...]
Ethanol, Corn, and Your Ag Business
March 9th, 2010Not too many agribusiness owners would argue to potential windfall that government approval of an ethanol blend would bring. That seems to be close to happening – the EPA announced in December that it was satisfied with the feasibility of ethanol, and contingent on further testing, it could soon approve 15 percent ethanol blends based [...]
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