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Produce truck rates are up 70% or more compared with a year ago, and industry sources don’t think relief is coming anytime soon.
As backlogs at U.S. ports and climbing shipping rates plague the supply chain, new data shows container shipping rates between the U.S and China are dropping by more than 50% in just a month.
The timeline on these actions are tight—while arguments are heard on January 7, that’s three days before the enforcement efforts by OSHA are scheduled to start
“I wouldn’t be surprised as we put Omicron behind us that we’re going to see a restaurant recovery in the summer. But right now the supermarket is still doing quite well on a historical basis,” says Michael Swanson.
Despite dynamic and challenging supply chains, there’s more than one silver lining
By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - U.S. grains merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co said on Tuesday it has carried out the largest soybean shipment in the history of the Ponta da Montanha
USDA released a slew of reports of Friday, initially sending markets lower.
Corn Planted Acreage Up Less than 1 Percent from 2020 Soybean Acreage Up 5 Percent All Wheat Acreage Up 5 Percent All Cotton Acreage Down Less than 1 Percent
Corn Stocks Down 3 Percent from March 2020 Soybean Stocks Down 31 Percent All Wheat Stocks Down 7 Percent
January’s Crop Production and Stocks reports from USDA raised a number of questions about big shifts in production projections. NASS Crops Chief Lance Honig addressed those questions on AgriTalk.
WASDE for February raised exports and lowered ending stocks for both corn and soybeans.
President Trump said Monday that a trade “understanding” has been reached with Mexico.
From a text-based poll, 28% of farmers are increasing their fungicide use in soybeans in 2021.
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act provides that eligible employees are entitled to paid sick time because of COVID-19, and employers are eligible for a tax credit to offset the expense.
Since we all react to crisis differently; it helps to understand employees’ and family members’ perspectives.
Confidence about the future of the workplace has declined less than one might expect, says a report from ADP Research Institute. Positivity persists despite the pandemic. But how is COVID-19 affecting the ag workforce?
U.S. ag is suffering from a labor shortage that could increase production costs and consumer food prices if not addressed through visa reform to provide better access to the foreign-born workers on which it depends.
AgCareers.com is launching its 2021-2022 season of Feed Your Future virtual career fairs across the United States.
In a partnership announced in mid-June, Helm Agro will provide marketing, distribution and technical support for Alltech Crop Science’s biological products.
The critical nature of the ag industry has required many ag employers continue business operations as normal. AgCareers.com’s annual Agribusiness HR Review survey of ag employers assesses employers’ COVID responses.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor will make an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas available for the second half of fiscal year 2022.
The last couple of years have affected employment in agriculture and food, changing where, how and the way we work and conduct business. Here’s a look at AgCareers.com’s annual review of trends in jobs and candidates.
From recruitment to retention to building trust in the workplace, AgCareers.com will host their annual HR Roundtable on June 15, discussing current trends and issues in the agriculture industry workforce.
Running a vertical tool now can help break up tracks and ruts your harvest equipment left behind. It can also help you address volunteer corn -- yes, it’s likely to be a problem based on corn lost during harvest.
U.S. tariffs levied against Chinese products in 2018 were not “punitive” tariffs, according to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and are not “punishing” China.
The GSI ROI tool provides a side-by-side analysis comparing the financial returns for different storage types.
“All through the Midwest it’s been a drying season... It’s been a tight supply all the way across the board.”
Have you tried calling your local grain bin dealer over the past few months and gotten a busy tone? Grain bin manufacturers say demand is through the roof, driven by a variety of factors.
“All of our application products, services, and manufactured products that we sell are the result of listening to our ag retail customers’ needs...”
The process involves your team identifying and agreeing on two areas: your strongest points of defensible competitive advantage and your competition’s weakest points of vulnerability.