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26 Oct 2023
&t;body> DES MOINES, (DTN) -- Pointing to the growing number of conflicts globally, a group of World Food Prize laureates came together Thursday to call on the United States and other countries to provide "generous funding" for foreign food and agricultural development. Eleven people who have been awarded the World Food Prize for their work reducin...
26 Oct 2023
President Joe Biden sent a request to Congress that includes $2.8 billion in disaster aid for farmers and livestock producers affected by natural disasters. The overall request the White House has put together is $56 billion. Along with disaster aid for farmers, the package includes another request for just over $1 billion in international food aid...
26 Oct 2023
Dick Judah has watched wheat's fortunes roll around more than once in his farming career. This year, the crop literally shined for the Hillsboro, Oregon, farmer. The variety he planted, LCS Shine, hit 173.77 bushel per acre (bpa), enough to win him the top honors in the dryland winter wheat category. The most competitive of the National Wheat Yield...
25 Oct 2023
DES MOINES (DTN) -- While the accolades and scale of the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue have gotten bigger over the decades, the challenges of addressing global hunger have gotten worse. Named after famed Iowa wheat breeder Norman Borlaug, a 1970 Nobel Prize recipient, the Borlaug Dialogue over the decades has built its success on highlighting a...
25 Oct 2023
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (DTN) -- Some corn farmers won't need a yield loss to trigger a crop insurance payment this year, while many more are looking at a combination of yields and prices that will likely lead to an indemnity check. "I wouldn't expect most farmers to have large payments, but some will have pretty good payments," University of Illinois ag...