Month: July 2026

The chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says he’s supportive of a farm bill draft that’s been released in the U.S. Senate. Glenn “GT” Thompson from Pennsylvania says it looks different from the House’s [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. There was renewed talk about China buying U.S. beans ahead of Thursday’s export sales report. No new sales to China have been announced yet this week, [Read More…]

Questions loom over the status of E15 legislation in the U.S. Senate.  “Mixed signals is very accurate.” Iowa Farm Bureau president Brent Johnson says he’s heard members of Congress say E15 can’t pass on its [Read More…]

An ag economist says declining farm income trends continue to raise concerns across the farm economy. Scott Irwin, professor and chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois, says the downward movement has occurred [Read More…]

A market analyst says it remains to be seen if Iran begins to make purchases of U.S. ag goods. Jim McCormick is with AgMarket.Net and says, “That’s the hard part about it because we’re dealing with [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol production rose to a multi-month high last week, propelled by margins and demand expectations. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.117 million barrels per day, the highest since mid-April, and up [Read More…]

The USDA sent out more farmer surveys for the June acreage report, but Seth Meyer with MU’s Food and Ag Policy Research Institute says the response still wasn’t great. “They compensate on pure response numbers [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were mostly unchanged Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.     Dry whey was unchanged at $0.68. No sales were reported.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were unchanged at $1.43.  Twenty-one sales were recorded ranging from $1.4100 to $1.45.  Cheese barrels were unchanged at $1.4750. No sales were reported.  Butter was down $0.0175 to $1.68. Twenty-two sales [Read More…]