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New study looks at success of business start-ups in rural towns
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| AMES, Iowa – A new Iowa State University (ISU) study takes a look at which factors encourage or discourage new business start-ups in small rural towns, and suggests policy implications for addressing economic distress in these towns, using Iowa as an example. |
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| USDA offers incentive for CRP for forest management |
| INDIANAPOLIS – The USDA is making available $12 million for use in making payments to forest landowners with land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in exchange for their implementing healthy forest management practices. Existing CRP participants can now sign up for the Forest Management Incentive (FMI), which provides financial incentives to landowners with land in CRP to encourage proper tree thinning and other practices. |
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| China misses Phase 1 projection |
| Final data has been tallied and as expected, China failed to reach its Phase 1 import obligations. Data indicates China imported $100 billion of U.S. products in 2020. This was just 58 percent of the agreed upon $173 billion. The question now is if China will be able to meet the second stage of the agreement that calls for even more imports. A bigger question may be if the United States can supply more products, especially commodities. |
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| Washington ag industry, Asks for vaccine priorty |
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The agriculture industry is asking Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers closer to the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they perform work that cannot be delayed or performed remotely. A letter sent to Inslee and signed by the heads of 14 agriculture trade groups said vaccinations offer the greatest hope for reducing COVID-19 risk among food and agricultural workers and their families. |
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| Imports from Mexico, S. America a concern of U.S. blueberry growers |
| GRAND JUNCTION, Mich. – Blueberries are health-beneficial and in high demand these days. Nearly 690 million pounds of cultivated and wild blueberries were produced in the United States last year. But this scrumptious fruit that is no larger than a marble might be the center of a border war of sorts – blueberry imports. |
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| Webinars provide insights into rise in corn and soybean markets |
| URBANA, Ill. – U.S. corn and soybean markets have been on a tear since bottoming in mid-August, with both markets increasing over 30 percent in just three months, according to two University of Illinois agricultural economists. |
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Book tells story of complicated history of land
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| “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World” by Simon Winchester c.2021, Harper, $29.99, 464 pages |
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| Deere names Startup Collaborators for 2021 |
| Moline, Ill. – Deere & Company has announced the companies that will be part of the 2021 cohort of the Startup Collaborator program. This program was launched in 2019 to enhance and deepen its interaction with startup companies whose technology could add value for John Deere customers. |
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| Livestock, poultry sectors brace for high feed costs |
| PEORIA, Ill. — Beef and dairy cattle producers, along with pork and poultry farmers, are bracing for higher feed costs this year. It’s a predictable economic consequence of the high futures prices currently enjoyed by growers of soybeans and corn. |
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| Meat sales last year up nearly 20 percent |
| SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Overall meat dollar sales in 2020 during the pandemic increased 18.4 percent, and volume sales grew 10.3 percent, which is 20 percent above 2019 levels, according to data compiled by IRI, and reported by Anne-Marie Roerink, president of 210 Analytics, LLC. |
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