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USDA Reminds Producers to Complete Crop Acreage Reports
Contact your local FSA county office for acreage reporting deadlines Agricultural producers who have not yet completed their crop acreage reports after…
Foliar Corn Diseases Ramping Up in Some States
Nathan Kleczewski wants all the dirty corn leaves you can send him. It’s peak season for the University of…
The US Safety Net, Crop Profitability, and a Floor on Cost of Production
Since 1980, the US crop safety net has been countercyclical to aggregate net return for the 9 crops that USDA…
Corn Planted Acreage up 3% from 2019
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) estimated 92.0 million acres of corn planted in the United…
Heavy Carcass Weights Headed Into Fall
There’s been a lot of talk in the last couple months about the backlog of cattle, the increase in carcass…
The White Combine-A Farmer’s Worst Nightmare
The big white combine got its name from, you guessed it, a hailstorm that destroys or severely damages a farmer’s…
Revisiting Corn Use for Ethanol
Stronger export numbers and lower acreage boosted corn prices since the end of June. Concerns about demand weakness in ethanol…
Hog Industry Faces Financial Disaster
Hog producers currently are holding on to about 1.1 million animals that should have been slaughtered already. The number could…
Kansas City Fed-Agricultural Financing Activity Slowed in Second Quarter
In an update last week from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (“Agricultural Lending Consistently Slower“), Nathan Kauffman and Ty Kreitman stated that,…
Lawmaker Says Dairy Safety Net Is Best of All Commodities
Dairy producers and other farmers across the country struggled with crashing commodity prices early on in the Coronavirus pandemic. While…