By John McCracken Over the past two decades, Greg Gunthorp carved out a niche operating a small meat processing plant in northern Indiana. He sold several kinds of meat to chic Chicago and Indianapolis restaurants and to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, he said. He also sold direct to consumers. But…

Governor Kathy Hochul announced this month that Hypercell Technologies of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, is the grand prize winner of this year’s Grow-NY business competition. Grow-NY is a startup challenge focused on enhancing the emerging food, beverage, and agriculture innovation cluster in Central New York, the Finger Lakes, and the Southern…

The 2023 Peoples Company National Land Values report says expect a flat farmland market for 2024.   “When you get right down to it, what we’re saying is the land market performed really well in 2023 and the outlook in 2024 is that the land market remains flat, even though your…

Based on today’s report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecasted to be $151.1 billion in the calendar year 2023, a decrease of $31.8 billion (17.4 percent) relative to 2022 in nominal (not adjusted for inflation) dollars. Meanwhile,…

Livestock accounted for slightly more than half of the 14 percent increase in global greenhouse gas emissions by agriculture from 2000 to 2021, said a Food and Agriculture Organization report on Wednesday. The carbon footprint of cattle and sheep was several times higher than the footprint for pigs, chickens, and dairy, when…

The government will provide up to $300 million for the first year of a new program to build food and ag export sales in nontraditional markets, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday. The USDA has committed $1.2 billion over five years for the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP) after the second…