2024 Tri-State Fruit & Vegetable Conference and Cold Weather Hits Ethanol Production
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**Hundreds are gathering today for the 2024 Tri-State Fruit & Vegetable Conference at the University of Florida’s
Jackson County Extension Office in Marianna.
www.morningagclips.com reports, this event is focused on fruit and vegetable production of the tri-state area.
Topics this year include ways to improve irrigation schedules, programs through USDA that aid fruit and vegetable growers, new data on crops and variety tolerances to insect transmitted diseases, ag labor trends, and more.
www.morningagclips.com/2024-tri-state-fruit-vegetable-annual-conference-3/
**A blast of cold weather in the Corn Belt sent ethanol production down 22% last week to its lowest point in three years.
Bloomberg says America’s output of the corn-based biofuel missed all its survey estimates while stockpiles hit the highest level since March.
The Energy Information Administration says the rise in stockpiles was the eighth straight week of increases.
Ethanol production dropped to the lowest level since February 2021.
**The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association reiterates its call to strengthen and establish a national animal identification system that works for and is accountable to all producers.
They want no private control of data or access to the data without the prior approval of the listed owner.
All official USDA tag information should be held in state animal health databases and shared with federal health officials only as needed.
