Month: May 2018

  The USDA reports combined old and new crop soybean and soybean meal exports for the week ending May 17th were towards the low end of pre-report estimates, while corn and wheat were near the [Read More…]

  A national survey of beekeepers found colony losses increased by 10 percent from last October through this April to the highest level since 2010. Julie Shapiro with the Honey Bee Health Coalition tells Brownfield colony [Read More…]

Farmers from 40 countries are in Illinois to learn more about biotechnology and how to communicate what they want and need. Sarah Evanega directs Cornell University’s Alliance for Science which is teaching the Global Farmer [Read More…]

Another White House meeting is planned today on proposed changes to the Renewable Fuels Standard and expanding access to E15 fuel year-round. The head of Growth Energy says she’s pleased the USDA is taking up [Read More…]

Jeff Jorgenson farms in the southwestern corner of Iowa, near the town of Sidney.  Jorgenson has been growing cover crops for five years and is one of a growing number of Midwestern farmers who are [Read More…]

House Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway says when the House votes again on their farm bill proposal, nothing in the bill will change.  “No, because right now, I can’t change the bill.  The motion to [Read More…]

A board member with the American Soybean Association says although there is no official deal between China and the US yet, there have been reports that China could purchase 30 to 40 percent more soybean [Read More…]

Minnesota commodity groups say Governor Dayton has dealt farmers another major blow by vetoing two more bills containing legislation important to agriculture. Dayton struck down the Omnibus Supplemental Budget Bill, which would’ve provided $250,000 dollars [Read More…]

A group of Mexican buyers touring cattle operations in Missouri and Illinois this week say they don’t want to lose NAFTA. On Tuesday, the buyers visited Mead Farms in Barnett, Missouri. Marco Alvarez and Julio [Read More…]

Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst calls legislative action on the state’s gas tax a big win for rural Missourians and the entire state.  Lawmakers passed a bill that will let voters decide whether to [Read More…]

Corn planting reached 66 percent as of Sunday in South Dakota, well behind last year and the average. Soybean planting in South Dakota is 24 percent complete, way behind last year and the average. Emergence [Read More…]

The dairy markets were down Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was unchanged at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was down $.09 to $15.75. July was down $.01 to $16.45.  August was [Read More…]

Commentary. Spring was just a blip on the screen following the winter-that-would-never-end.  My lilacs were in full bloom for about 2 minutes before they faded and folded and disappeared.  Summer is in a very big [Read More…]

Seven White House meetings to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard in recent months have ethanol groups working hard to separate fact from fiction. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says speculation follows every gathering between the [Read More…]