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USDA Predicts Highest Corn Acreage Since 2012
USDA on Tuesday released its annual Planting Intentions and quarterly March 1 Grain Stocks reports. Because DTN and other news…
More Uncertainty and Volatility Going Forward for the Hog Market
The USDA’s March Hogs and Pigs report pegs the March 1 inventory of all hogs and pigs at 77.6 million head, a…
COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Economic Downturn Are Major Roadblocks to Cotton Profitability
The worldwide COVID-19 health and economic crisis will make it difficult, but not impossible, for cotton farmers to make a…
Virus Concerns Change Farmer Habits
Nearly 90% of farmers fear the coronavirus will hurt their business, slightly more than those who are worried it could…
Dairy Farmers Emerge As Ideal Substitute Teachers, 300,000 Views Last Week
Stepping in to fill a void for children in desperate need of entertainment and educational activities, dairy farmers are emerging…
Ethanol Plants Seek to Supply Hand Sanitizer
As hospitals and nursing homes desperately search for hand sanitizer amid the coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are preventing ethanol producers…
Feds Fast Track Foreign Farm Workers’ Return
Farmers and orchard owners nationwide are breathing a little easier this week as more H-2A workers will be able to…
EPA Holds Off on RFS Waivers Decision
EPA announced its next steps on small-refinery exemptions following a recent decision by the Trump administration not to appeal a…
Farmers, Grain Companies Step Up to Help Out
With food banks charting unknown territory in the midst of a global crisis, farmers and grain companies in the Midwest…
Little Early Rice Planting in Arkansas, COVID-19 Effect Unknown
Finally, some rice is in the ground. Barely. DELAYED — Due to steady, intermittent rainfall throughout the winter and spring, essentially…