The federal government today announced some $97 million in funding for farms and agri-businesses to adopt cleaner technologies like more efficient grain dryers, solar power and precision agriculture technology.
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Feds spend $97 million on agricultural clean tech projects
Cash splashed on 162 projects including grain dryers and solar panels
Feds, producer groups launch wheat research cluster
Government, groups pool more than $20 million in research dollars
The federal government and private and producer groups announced $20 million toward wheat research today.
Indian farmers say detentions foil Delhi protest, police say no one held
Protest leaders urged farmers to take busses, trains to capital as tractors were blocked
Dozens of protesting Indian farmers were detained en route to New Delhi on Wednesday, delaying their plan again to converge on the capital to demand higher crop prices, protest leaders said.
Polish farmers clash with police outside parliament in Warsaw
Officers wounded, several people detained, police say
Protesting farmers clashed with police outside the parliament building in Warsaw on Wednesday, with police using pepper spray and accusing some participants of violence against security forces.
Bayer notches more wins in Roundup weedkiller cancer trials
Company has won 13 of last 20 cases; plaintiffs have won more than $4 billion
Bayer on Tuesday said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in Pennsylvania who alleged he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma from using the company's Roundup weedkiller.
Commodity Classic: U.S. corn growers await aviation fuel decision
Biden administration expected to announce within weeks if ethanol will qualify for sustainable aviation fuel tax credit
American corn growers are on pins and needles waiting to find out if corn ethanol will qualify for a lucrative sustainable aviation fuel tax credit.
Commodity Classic: ‘Strong evidence’ for old crop price rally says economist
Booming renewable diesel industry seen as a positive
Old crop corn and soybean prices in the United States will likely rally this spring, according to an agricultural economist.
Olymel parent company posts profit after plant closures
The company closed plants in Ontario, Quebec, and slowed production in the west in 2023
Sollio Cooperative Group, parent company of meat processor Olymel, says it’s back in the black after a period of losses led to closures and cut-backs.
Commodity Classic: U.S. fighting for market share says Vilsack
Competitive advantages from superior U.S. transportation have all but evaporated
U.S. agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack says the United States is trying to regain its competitive edge in world agricultural markets.
Poland urges EU sanctions on Russian, Belarusian farm products
Polish farmers have been protesting EU environmental regulation, competition from Ukrainian imports
Poland plans to ask the European Union to put sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products as it seeks to meet the needs of protesting farmers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday during a visit to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
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