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Drought Emerging in Parts of Texas
Despite rains in parts of Texas and more in the immediate forecast, summer 2020 looks like it will be especially…
Cattle Harvest Reported to Be Back to Near Normal Levels
Cattle slaughter continues to recover from COVID-19 disruptions in April and May. Estimated cattle slaughter for the week ending June…
Expected Harvest Prices for Soybeans in 2020
We developed a statistical model that projects the 2020 harvest price for soybeans, given a national soybean yield and average…
Enabling Ag Carbon Credits
After roughly a 10-year quest to get back on the congressional agenda, advocates for farmers and landowners getting paid for…
COVID-19 Ag Related Losses Mount as China Seeks Virus Documentation on Soybeans
Donnelle Eller reported on the front page of Tuesday’s Des Moines Register that, “The Trump administration has sent $4 billion in payments to…
A Wild Ride for Exchange Rates in 2020
In the early weeks of the COVID pandemic, we noted that exchange rates would be an important factor to watch in…
Good-to-Excellent Ratings at 72% for Corn, 70% for Soybeans
The condition of the nation’s corn crop improved slightly last week while soybean conditions dropped slightly, USDA NASS said in…
Nine-Month Corn Harvest, Wet Fields Hamper North Dakota 2020 Planting
It was a rough spring for many farmers in North Dakota after a crippling blizzard affected central and eastern North…
Anticipating June 1 Corn Stocks
The USDA releases the June 1 corn stocks estimate on June 30. Typically, the Acreage report published on the same…
California Still Benefits from Wet 2018-19
Reservoirs still relatively flush from the wet winter of 2018-19 have so far saved California from having to formally declare…