Ag News

China has announced it will not buy any agricultural products from the U.S. and a leader with American Farm Bureau says its unclear what the full impact will be. Dave Salmonsen is the senior director [Read More…]

Sep. corn closed at $4.06 and 1/2, up 2 and 1/2 centsAug. soybeans closed at $8.48 and 3/4, up 1 centAug. soybean meal closed at $293.00, down $2.10Aug. soybean oil closed at 27.96, up 48 [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol production rose slightly last week, while stocks backed off from the recent record high. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.040 million barrels a week, up 9,000 from the week before, [Read More…]

The US Army Corps of Engineers says some locks and dams on the Illinois River will be closed for at least three months in 2020 for needed repairs.   Dennis Shannon with the Corps’ Rock [Read More…]

A USDA meteorologist says topsoils are drying out in parts of the country, causing stress to corn, soybeans and cotton. Brad Rippey says topsoil moisture has declined significantly the last two weeks in the central [Read More…]

The USDA Farm Service Agency’s initial 2019 acreage numbers are out Monday, August 12th. The data includes planted area, prevent plant acreage, and failed acres, and will be used to determine eligibility in several USDA [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, a surge of cool air is arriving across the upper Midwest, accompanied by a few showers. In parts of the central and eastern Corn Belt, late-planted, late-developing corn and soybeans are [Read More…]

Controlling weeds is one of the most important components to a successful farming year. In this Managing for Profit, Iowa farmer April Hemmes shares why the Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System was the right fit [Read More…]

Persistent heat across the southern High Plains will contrast with an expanding area of near- or below-normal temperatures that should engulf much of the nation by week’s end. The coolest weather, relative to normal, will [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle closed lower pressured by the sharply lower hog futures and the lack of direction from the cash trade.  Feeder cattle were mostly lower on the same factors with [Read More…]

The vice president of the National Farmers Union says ratifying the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement would bring much needed certainty to agriculture. Speaking on a Minnesota Farmfest panel focused on ag policy Tuesday morning, Rob [Read More…]

Soybeans were modestly lower on fund and technical selling. It was an up and down day, waiting to see what’s next with China. China has reportedly stopped buying U.S. ag goods and might place tariffs [Read More…]

The market is reeling as the trade war with China re-escalates.  CHS vice president of grain marketing Chris Pothen says there seemed to be a reprieve in trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies [Read More…]

In the Corn Belt, a broken line of showers stretches from Michigan to Missouri. Prior to the rain, topsoil moisture had declined precipitously in parts of the central and eastern Corn Belt. On August 4, [Read More…]

Brownfield’s meteorologist Greg Soulje says an abnormal weather pattern is expected to continue. “Not much optimism on this next weather system for the central corn belt and some very late season outbreaks of severe weather [Read More…]

Here is another in a series of reports on how Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) is “Powering Nebraska”. Today, we’ll hear from Cory Fuehrer, who manages NPPD’s Energy Efficiency Program. He talks about their EnergyWise [Read More…]

Extreme heat will return for much of the week on the southern Plains, but a surge of cool air will trail a cold front across the northern and central Plains and the Midwest. Scattered showers [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were oversold and due for a bounce.  Feeder cattle ended the day higher on the same factors.  Both were able to move higher after hog futures came off [Read More…]

The group Tariffs Hurt the Heartland is urging the U.S. and China to immediately resume trade negotiations. Jonathan Gold, a spokesman for the coalition, says it’s never been more clear that tariffs are a failing [Read More…]