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Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. Monday, traders bought the rumor China was purchasing U.S. soybeans, Tuesday and Wednesday, they have sold the facts. USDA says China bought another 330,000 tons of [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. Monday, traders bought the rumor China was purchasing U.S. soybeans, Tuesday and Wednesday, they have sold the facts. USDA says China bought another 330,000 tons of [Read More…]

U.S. broiler hatchery numbers were mixed. The USDA says 247.685 million broiler-type eggs were set into incubators last week, rising 5.132 million from the previous week, but falling 1% from a year ago, with average [Read More…]

Water resources across the country are under more scrutiny than ever before.  Billy Howe, with the Texas Farm Bureau, says some areas of his state are running out of water. “They’re actually going to run [Read More…]

Five new cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza have been detected in northern Indiana.  The Indiana State Board of Animal Health says the latest cases have been confirmed on two commercial broiler operations, two commercial [Read More…]

Bayer is expected to have a 2027/28 market introduction for Vyconic soybeans in the U.S. and Canada. In this episode of Managing for Profit, Tyler Uhe, U.S. soy portfolio lead at Bayer Crop Science, discusses [Read More…]

Two beef processing facilities are incorporating artificial intelligence to increase harvest yields. Leon Fletcher with Cargill says with the U.S. cattle supply at its lowest level in years, improving yield matters. “Day in, day out [Read More…]

The state veterinarian in Missouri says there’s an action plan being developed to help control New World screwworm if it’s confirmed in the United States. Steve Strubberg says animal health industry experts are learning how [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, dry weather and seasonable temperatures favor final corn and soybean harvesting, except in areas that received significant rain earlier in the week.  On November 16, prior to the recent rainfall, statewide [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of warmer-than-normal weather from the Plains to the East Coast, except for near-normal temperatures in New England.  Near- or below-normal temperatures will prevail in [Read More…]

An ag economist at Ohio State University says he doesn’t expect China to purchase 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans before the end of the year.  Ian Sheldon says there isn’t much incentive to make additional [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live  and feeder cattle futures closed mixed, consolidating ahead of the week’s widespread direct business and Friday’s USDA Cattle on Feed report. December live was down $1.25 at $220.02 and [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. Tuesday was a “buy the rumor, sell the fact” session after the USDA announced the sale of 792,000 tons of U.S. soybeans to China ahead of [Read More…]

Dec. corn $4.36 and 3/4, up 2 centsJan. soybeans $11.53 and 1/2, down 3 and 3/4 centsDec. soybean meal $327.00, down $3.80Dec. soybean oil 52.17, up 103 pointsDec. Chicago wheat $5.46 and 1/2, up 2 [Read More…]

The director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says work is underway to implement a new water export law in Missouri. Kurt Schaefer says any water exported out of the state now requires a [Read More…]

For decades, Illinois corn growers have partnered with the Illinois Pork Producers Association on a number of initiatives to move the needle for both corn and pork. In this Managing for Profit, Jennifer Tirey, executive [Read More…]

The end of the 2025 U.S. corn and soybean harvests are in sight. It’s been a mixed fall across much of the Midwest and Plains, with stretches of favorable conditions for harvest and winter crop [Read More…]

The USDA says next week producers can start enrolling for the second wave of the Supplemental Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden says the program covers eligible commodities that were not [Read More…]

USDA says milk production was higher again in the September supply and demand report.  Higher milk cow inventories and robust milk per cow are credited with the jump in production.    USDA says the September [Read More…]

Land prices keep going up in value, and David Oppedahl from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago tells Brownfield those land values are helping farmers’ portfolios during the down farm economy, but it’s also making [Read More…]