Sonoma County Winegrowers Ready for Harvest
According to Karissa Kruse, president of Sonoma County Winegrowers, harvest season for the 1,100 growers tending to some 60,000 acres…
Record U.S. Sorghum Sales To China Reported
U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service data issued yesterday shows U.S. sorghum purchases last week rang in the biggest…
Texas Crop and Weather Report-Retail Beef Price Drop Reflects Lower Wholesale Prices
Beef consumers should be seeing lower prices on beef, whether steaks or ground chuck, at grocery stores as production increased…
Curbside Pickup of Farmland
The coronavirus has forced farmland brokers to get creative. Typically they’re busy setting their fall auction line-up this time of…
Cost Management: Tillage Operations
Farming is a capital intensive venture with specialized equipment needed for various field operations, including several different implements used for…
USDA Allows Some Farmers to Hay, Graze or Chop Cover Crops Early This Year
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced that this year farmers who planted cover crops…
Trump Administration Approves $4 Billion in Emergency Aid to Iowa
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa after a hurricane-force storm hit last…
Iowa Corn Condition Rating Drops 10 Points to 59% Good to Excellent
A 10-percentage-point decline in the Iowa corn crop’s good-to-excellent condition rating following last Monday’s derecho contributed to a 2-point drop…
Soybeans Rally Despite Record Yield Forecast
The highly anticipated August Crop Production report presented a record yield for soybeans this year. Despite the forecast of higher…
Ninth Circuit Court Denies Companies’ Petition to Rehear Dicamba Case
On Monday, three dicamba registrants lost one of their last remaining legal options to overturn a federal court’s mandate ending…