Month: October 2018

Across the Corn Belt, Freeze and Freeze Warnings are in effect across many production areas. Summer crops in the freeze-affected region are largely mature, but the cool weather is contributing to a slow return to [Read More…]

Another surge of cold air will reach the nation’s mid-section during the weekend and soon overspread much of the remainder of the country. Warmth will prevail, however, in the Far West and linger across the [Read More…]

University of Wisconsin Extension officials are continuing to get reports of plant disease problems.  Friday’s report says there were confirmed cases of three different types of corn ear rot during the week.  Diplodia was found [Read More…]

Trade disruptions have been expensive for soybean growers, although there has been relief from the USDA’s Market Facilitation Program payments of $1.65 a bushel on 50 percent of a grower’s production. The tariff dispute with [Read More…]

President Trump and Chinese President Xi will reportedly meet next month at the G20 summit in Argentina. The two countries haven’t discussed trade in person since August. The news comes days after Trump says that [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed lower on pressure from weak fundamentals.  This week’s steady to lower cash trade and weakness in beef values were also negative.  The trade is also looking ahead [Read More…]

The Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa has started a second production shift. “We’ve been staffing a second shift though the summer, just getting folks on board and trained,” says the plant’s [Read More…]

The USDA says cash dairy prices ended the week lower except for dry whey.   In the weekly dairy market news recap, the agency says butter output is active in the western region of the [Read More…]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) and Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D, NY) cut a deal this week to move a slate of judicial and executive nominations to Senate floor votes in exchange for [Read More…]

A southwestern Indiana farmer says his corn and soybean yields are above average but nowhere near the record crop he had last year. Joe Steinkamp grows soybeans, white corn, and wheat in Vanderburgh County. “I’d [Read More…]

The CEO of the Minnesota Pork Producers is pleased with preventative steps taken domestically as African Swine Fever continues to spread in other parts of the world. David Preisler says the U.S. pork sector has [Read More…]