Though domestic supplies have helped drive the latest rally in the grain markets, demand from China as that nation continues to rebuild its hog herd will likely be the major fundamental driver of prices and, in turn, revenue for producers in 2021, American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) economists said at the organization's convention this week.

Twenty years ago, Walmart didn't see Amazon.com, then primarily an online book-seller, as a potential competitor.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to how light was shed on some of the issues, things like rural infrastructure (including rural broadband), farm labor and sustainability will remain major priorities once the pandemic is under control.

The grain stocks and annual crop production data released by USDA Tuesday showed tightening supplies and lower 2020 crop output and sparked limit-up price action in both corn and soybean markets.

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Final 2020 crop output numbers and grain stocks estimates are just a couple of the reports being released Tuesday by USDA, and ones the marketplace will be watching closely.

After industry groups filed a lawsuit against recently against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) waivers that keep them from integrating ethanol and biodiesel into their fuel output, more waivers are now expected to come as early as this week.

Though fieldwork is limited to things like planting cover crops and installing tile drainage in the Midwest right now, farmers in the Deep South are kicking tires and getting ready to begin planting row crops, small grains and cotton fairly soon.

There were a few rain showers around Argentina over the weekend, but it's still been largely dry in the soybean-rich parts of that country, and that's got CME Group soybean prices trending higher heading into this week's trade.

Late last week, U.S. Supreme Court justices, without comment, agreed to take up an appeal in the case of the Environmental Protection Agency's granting of Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) waivers to small oil refineries in the name of the enhanced risk they face because of the biofuels mandates.