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Corn Prices-Farmer Holding and the Coronavirus
Old crop corn basis and futures spreads continue to signal a smaller crop scenario than the price levels in the…
More Farmers Convert to Organic in 2019, Beat Forecasts
U.S. farmers harvested nearly 3.3 million acres of certified organic field crops in 2019, driven by 14% more organic field…
Canadian Ag Minister Reports Country Will Sign USMCA Agreement Soon
Canadian Minister of Agriculture Marie-Claude Bibeau says the country will ratify the US Mexico Canada Agreement soon. “We are going…
Despite Tough Year in Biofuels, Few Plants Changed Hands Last Year
Despite the biofuels industry operating on thin margins and dealing with federal policy uncertainty in 2019, the number of mergers…
Record Production, Exports Forecast for Beef, Pork, Broilers
USDA is forecasting bullish export sales for beef, pork and poultry in 2020 and record production again in red meat…
Ag Law Experts Weigh In On Dicamba Lawsuits-USDA Committee Recommends Dicamba Non-renewal
In the space of a day, fallout from Bayer and BASF’s dicamba-resistant technologies shifted from an amalgam of thousands of…
ASF Virus Can Stay Infectious Longer than Thought
The researchers and veterinarians who created the fact sheet, Holding Time Calculations for Feed Ingredients to Mitigate Virus Transmission, have revised…
Highlights from USDA Trade and Commodity Outlook Reports
Following this month’s release of the USDA’s Long-Term Projections, on Thursday, the Department released its quarterly Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade. This…
USDA-Nine Percent of Dairies Closed in 2019
Nearly nine percent of the nation’s dairy farms closed their doors in 2019. The USDA’s latest milk production report says…
USDA Crops Outlook Forecast
USDA’s initial look at the 2020-21 crop projects record corn production at 15.5 billion bushels (bb) and a larger soybean…