On April 17, the USDA unveiled details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program for agriculture, which includes $16 billion in direct support to agricultural producers and $3 billion to purchase and distribute agriculture products to Americans in need. Read a summary of these two main components.
Those of us in the U.S. are often unaware of just how much the American dairy industry varies from much of the rest of the world. This is one of the reasons Farm Credit East has been a part of the International Farm Comparison Network for the past 10 years; to support their mission to better understand and forecast the dairy economy.
Agriculture has always embraced and adopted new technologies and, as of late, we are seeing new participants in ag technology. Here’s the first of four of these up-and-coming technologies.
A solar array can help to supplement or replace the on-farm use of electricity. Consider these three components in your plan, and you may be in the market to invest in solar.
