Mike Davis

It's been five years since USDA's Risk Management Agency first offered the crop insurance product known as Hurricane Insurance Protection-Wind Index. "That product is what's called a weather index policy. So it's a little bit different than your own individual underlying multi-partial policy in t

When it comes to raising healthy dairy calves, protecting them from bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is essential for their growth and long-term profitability. Dr. Linda Tikofsky, a professional services veterinarian with Boehringer-Ingelheim, talks about the importance of creating a plan to protect

I am talking with Corey Davis from the State Climate Office of North Carolina, time to take a look back over October. And I think it could be summed up in a couple of words: Dry October, certainly, and a lot of places pretty warm, but what's your perspective, Corey? "Yeah, Mike, that's pretty muc

The National Pork Producers Council confirms there are no food safety concerns about the nation’s pork supply after H5N1 was detected this week in an Oregon backyard farm. NPPC continues to work closely with the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services and pork industry

Asbury Park Press TRENTON - How high is "too high"? In the cannabis industry, the answer is usually, with a laugh, that there's no such thing.

The October Rural Mainstreet Index didn’t contain a lot of good news for the farm economy. Dr. Ernie Goss of Creighton University conducts the survey and talks about the results. “Well, our survey of bank CEOs in rural areas in ten states in this mid-section of the country, the overall index, whi

State fairs are an annual high point for young people growing up in agriculture, and it provides them with a chance to compete in showing the animals they've grown on a statewide level. Ashley Herring is Director of Consumer Information with the North Carolina Cattlemens Association, and says for th

A case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed for the first time in a pig in Oregon. The Swine Health Information Center Executive Director Dr. Megan Niederwerder says it was a pig co-housed with poultry, sheep, and goats in a small backyard farm. "These animals were housed tog

Plus, plenty of adult theater options from Jon Michael Hill at Steppenwolf to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “Pericles.”

We have reached the final days of this grueling election cycle, and President Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are barnstorming battleground states trying to scrounge up every last vote.