China Explores Professional Farmer Training The Chinese government recently initiated the nationwide concept of professional farmers and is starting to explore ways of providing training to help younger generations achieve that status. Traditionally, being a farmer was more of a personal identity in China that resulted from birth. The professional farmer concept is the government's effort to promote farming as a chosen profession that requires modern advanced skills because of the following:
Traditional Chinese farmers use a plow, rake, shovel and sickle to plant crops on a small patch of family-owned land and the agricultural output provides the only income. Farming patterns of the small-scale economy and the meager income from c...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
