Month: August 2018

Recent crop tours across the Midwest have put additional pressure on struggling corn and soybean prices. Paragon Ag Advisory risk manager Jamey Kohake says if the projections are close to accurate, the soybean carryout could [Read More…]

A cash rent survey for Missouri cropland did not change much from the survey done three years ago, “Given that the economic conditions are a little less favorable right now than they were in 2015 [Read More…]

The ongoing U.S.-China trade war might benefit Russia. Russia’s Agriculture agency says it sold about 850-thousand metric tons of soybeans to China by May, about two-and-a-half times their previous sales.  Now, Chinese media reports say [Read More…]

Beck’s seed company is urging the EPA to limit dicamba use to pre-plant applications only. Scott Beck is president of the family-owned company. “We want to preserve this technology  but we think the best way [Read More…]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were sharply lower on technical selling, long liquidation, and position squaring ahead of the USDA’s Cattle on Feed report. The on-feed numbers were bearish, but very close to what [Read More…]

An economist says despite the headlines, U.S. grain exports are pretty good.  Mike Dwyer with the U.S. Grains Council says, “We will probably set a record of at least 116 million tons of feed grains in [Read More…]

Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed higher Friday supported by continued strength in the cash market. August milk closed up three cents at $15.03.  September milk up 16 cents at $16.21.  [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, scattered showers from the Mississippi Valley westward are maintaining generally favorable growing conditions for summer crops. Even some of the driest areas of the southwestern Corn Belt have experienced recent improvements [Read More…]

Hurricane Lane should continue to gradually weaken while making its closest approach to the Hawaiian Islands over the remainder of Friday and early Saturday. The primary threats from Lane will be flash flooding, high winds, [Read More…]

When it comes to rife media and talking head speculation that China and the U.S. will continue their tariff wars indefinitely, that NAFTA 2.0 will succumb to an 11th-hour breakdown, that House and Senate conferees [Read More…]

U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says details of the $12 billion-dollar trade relief package will be released Monday. During a trip to upstate New York Thursday, Perdue said the plan to help farmers hurt by [Read More…]

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The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association wants producers to have access to even more CRP lands as the drought continues in Missouri. Mike Deering tells Brownfield the Farm Service Agency’s release of CRP land in certain counties [Read More…]

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Amanda De Jong today says 22 Iowa Counties are authorized for emergency haying and grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres until September 30th, the end [Read More…]