 | | There's an old saying that farmers farm the previous year. And I think there's something to that. In fact, psychologists have a term for this phenomenon: availability bias or the availability heuristic. |
 | | Planting may be progressing nicely for some, while others are being pushed out of the field this week due to rain. Some portions of Illinois even saw more than 5 inches of rain already this week. |
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 | | Senator Jerry Moran pressed the president on the devastation growing in the meat packing industry that was overflowing downstream to Kansas farmers and ranchers. President Trump took action Tuesday, designating packing plants as essential businesses and ordering them to stay open. |
 | | The pork industry is going through a devastating time that producers haven’t experienced in decades with lower prices and problems transporting hogs. Meat packing plants throughout the country are limiting capacity or shutting down until COVID-19 clears. |
 | | Tyson Foods bought a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Sunday. The overriding message by Tyson Foods board chairman John Tyson: "the food supply chain is breaking.” |
 | | Why are farmers having to dump milk when there's big demand at the grocery store? Some insight, in today's AgDay Minute? |
 | | Soil is working great! Planting being done. Driest ground has been at this time of year in 10 years. We can actually get in and plant in a timely manner. Just need more heat. One farmer I talked to in Southwest Indiana has nearly all of his corn planted. |
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