Have been you busy attending the Farm Progress Present this week in Boone, Iowa with different farmers and ag professionals? Or, maybe you had been busy sprucing up your gear and making last-minute repairs earlier than harvest? Both manner, we’ve put collectively a roundup of the highest headlines in agriculture from the previous week to carry you up-to-speed.
Case IH, Raven debut first autonomous spreader
Because the gates opened on the Farm Progress Present, Case IH and its firm associate Raven launched the primary autonomous spreader – the Case IH Trident 5550 applicator with Raven Autonomy. This comes lower than a 12 months after CNH Industrial bought Raven Industries. The brand new machine makes use of cameras and radar techniques for impediment avoidance and can conduct work in an outlined discipline boundary. – Farm Progress
China bans exports from Tyson plant
Tyson Meals Inc’s pork processing plant in Logansport, Indiana, has been suspended from exporting merchandise to China. Neither USDA nor the corporate on Monday stated why exports to China have been halted. China has banned meat imports from varied processing crops in a number of nations previously, over issues of importing coronavirus. – Reuters
Walmart invests in Sustainable Beef LLC
Walmart signed an settlement to accumulate a minority stake in Sustainable Beef LLC, a rancher-owned firm based mostly in North Platte, Nebraska. Walmart’s funding will assist Sustainable Beef LLC open their beef processing facility in North Platte, Neb. The power, which can course of 1,500 head per day, is predicted to interrupt floor subsequent month and open by late 2024, creating greater than 800 new jobs. – BEEF
Delivering nitrogen on-seed
This week Pivot Bio launched a brand new line of merchandise to ship nitrogen-producing microbes on the seed for crops like corn, sorghum, and spring wheat. The merchandise – PROVEN 40 and RETURN On-Seed – present a nitrogen supply with out the dangers of leaching and denitrification. The product can be accessible for farmers for the 2023 rising season. – Pivot Bio
Tragedy in North Dakota
Authorities in North Dakota recognized 4 individuals Wednesday who had been discovered shot to demise in a wheat discipline throughout harvest this week. Towner County Sheriff Andrew Hillier didn’t establish a doable motive, however he stated proof on the scene advised the incident was a murder-suicide. – NBC Information
Vilsack previews climate-smart ag investments
Whereas talking on the Farm Progress Present, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack stated he stays optimistic in regards to the many investments being made in rural America to proceed to create extra markets for U.S. Vilsack says USDA continues to encourage the agriculture trade in attending to a web zero carbon emissions future by specializing in actions which can be voluntary, farmer-led and recognizing and respecting non-public property possession. – Farm Progress
Boating in (pumpkin) model
A Nebraska man paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River Aug. 27 in a “boat” created from a hollowed-out pumpkin to rejoice his sixtieth birthday and hopefully set a Guinness World Report. The pumpkin vessel was full with the title SS Berta written on the again and had a cupholder carved into the hull. – CNN
