Month: August 2023

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly higher, and feeders were mostly lower waiting for the week’s direct business to develop and watching corn. October live cattle closed $.05 higher at $178.67 and [Read More…]

The head of R-CALF USA says restoring competition to the marketplace remains one of the organization’s top priorities.  Bill Bullard says competition has been purged from the cattle industry and it needs to be restored.  [Read More…]

Yield potential could fall as temperatures heat up. Iowa State University Extension field agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz says this week’s hot conditions combined with dryness in some areas won’t help grain fill. “When we stay extremely [Read More…]

US Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has issued additional drought disaster designations in Illinois. McDonough, McHenry and Mercer counties have been deemed primary counties under the declaration meaning producers are now eligible for emergency loans from [Read More…]

Fall might be the ideal time to assess soybean cyst nematode pressure. Troy Bauer is a senior field tech rep with BASF. “Growers need to understand what’s going on in their fields, and the best [Read More…]

Kentucky State University recently received a $600,000 grant to fund research focused on nitrogen management in soybean production.  Dr. Anuj Chiluwal, assistant professor of agronomy and project director says there is an urgent need to [Read More…]

Sep. corn closed at $4.76 and 1/4, up 9 and 3/4 centsSep. soybeans closed at $13.59 and 1/2, up 8 centsSep. soybean meal closed at $413.00, up $6.70Sep. soybean oil closed at 66.15, up 94 pointsSep. [Read More…]

The latest U.S. dairy stocks report reflects a lower supply of milk and earlier preparations for holiday demand. The USDA’s Cold Storage report pegs cheese stocks at nearly 1.5 billion pounds, down one percent from [Read More…]

Milk futures and the cash dairy markets were lower except for whey and butter Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.    September Class III milk was down $0.11 at $18.39.  October was down $0.11 at $17.75. November was down $0.07 at [Read More…]