Month: December 2022

The Dairy Margin Coverage program will not be making payments for October production.  The October margin was calculated to be $10.71 per hundredweight, which is higher than the $9.50 trigger price and more than two [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Beans followed meal which hit contract highs on aggressive spread unwinding with bean oil. With the recent meltdown in soybean oil, crush margins have narrowed, but remain [Read More…]

The USDA has rolled out its final rule to stand up the Cattle Contract Library pilot program. Tanner Beymer with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the USDA updated the language to the rule following [Read More…]

Milk futures rose and cash dairy prices were steady to higher Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. December Class III milk was up $0.06 at $20.47.  January was up $0.05 at $20.04.  February was up [Read More…]

A state Farm Bureau organization says an exhaustive review of references prices in the next farm bill could help producers manage uncertainty. Jordan Dux, senior director of national affairs with NEFB, says crop prices are [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol exports fell 17% from September to October. Those sales are impacted by several factors, including strength in the dollar relative to other currencies, which makes U.S. goods more expensive on the export market. [Read More…]

At the conclusion of the Missouri Farm Bureau annual meeting, members re-elected Garrett Hawkins as president for another two years. Several directors were also elected to another two-year term. This includes Jason Kurtz for District [Read More…]

Missouri Farm Bureau delegates finalized their policy priorities for 2023 during this week’s annual meeting. Missouri Farm Bureau members took a stance on eminent domain, supporting the adoption of an Ag Impact Mitigation Agreement program. [Read More…]

Missouri Farm Bureau members set their dairy policy priorities ahead of the upcoming Farm Bill discussions.  Vice President Todd Hays chairs the Missouri Farm Bureau resolutions committee. He tells Brownfield the updates to dairy policy [Read More…]

A food safety expert is reminding consumers to avoid washing and rinsing meat and poultry.   Cross-contamination, or the transfer of harmful bacteria to ready-to-eat food for example, can happen when handling raw meat, poultry, [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures throughout the northern and western U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will be confined to the South, from Texas to the southern Atlantic [Read More…]