INDUSTRY NEWS

President Donald Trump addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) 99th annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. The president touched on a variety of issues, including tax reform, regulations, rural broadband, the farm bill, crop insurance and trade.

Kansas State University’s analytical lab has expanded its services and can now analyze forage samples to give farmers and ranchers a clearer picture of what their animals are consuming.

As farming communities face mounting challenges with the nation’s opioid epidemic, the nation’s two largest general farm organizations are teaming up to confront the issue.

Below is a letter released on Dec. 14, 2017, from MacDon Industries:

Today we are announcing that we have entered into an agreement to sell the MacDon Group of Companies to Linamar Corp., a Canadian company headquartered in Guelph, Ontario.

Seth Hoyt, Western hay market analyst, said the bottom line for the 2018 hay market projection is that “export buyers could be more of a driver in the alfalfa hay market in the West in 2018 than dairy buyers – similar to the 2017 season.”

Here’s a look back at just a few of the operations featured in Progressive Forage.