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2019 U.S Spring Wheat and Durum Harvest-The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The 2019 spring wheat and durum planting season was stalled by late-spring snow, along with constant rains in some of…
Corn and Soybean Export Sales Lag Last Year
Export sales this year started slowly, particularly for corn. Recent sales to China buoyed soybean export sales in September. Abundant…
Enrollment Open for Dairy Farmers to Sign Up for Dairy Margin Coverage for 2020
Dairy farmers may have just finished enrollment for the Dairy Margin Coverage program for 2019, but USDA has just opened…
Biofuels Agreement Announcement Welcomed, but Details Lacking
Wall Street Journal writers Kirk Maltais and Jacob Bunge reported on Friday that, “The Trump administration outlined a plan to boost…
U.S.-EU Dispute Threatens Artery of World Trade
The trade wars threatening to push the global economy into recession are entering a new phase, with the United States…
Spring Forward, Fall Back
Jason Webster, commercial agronomist for Precision Planting, used the analogy during a recent field day at the company’s Precision Technology…
Feedback From The Field-Oct. 7, 2019
How are your crops faring this year? What are your hopes for yields? We’re asking growers about what’s really happening…
Amid Trade War, Farmers Lean on a New Crop-Hemp
Surrounded by waist-high hemp plants, Andy Huston, a sixth-generation farmer in Illinois, stopped to admire one of the ridged green leaves.…
EPA, USDA Announce Agreement on Promoting Biofuels
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue issued the following…
Lawmakers Ask USDA to Study Effects of Small-Refinery Waivers
In what appear to be the final hours leading up to the release of a long-awaited biofuels proposal from President…