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Flooding Keeps Chokehold on Barge Traffic, Stalling Grain Shipments
The long, record-breaking flooding of 2019 on the Mississippi River system has taken a toll on farmland, personal property and…
Weed Pressure Building After Wet Spring
Spring rains and warm weather creating headaches. Now that temperatures are reaching near normal seasonal levels on the heels of…
Growers Hope Standards Bring Order to Hemp Industry ‘Mess’
A unit of wheat is called a bushel, and a standard weight of potatoes is called a century. But hemp…
Cover Crop Seed. Tight Supplies, Order NOW
Cover crop seed will be in short supply this year. Farmers and landowners need to get orders in early, according…
Meat Producers Hit On Flooding Concerns
U.S. meat producers’ pain worsened Monday, as their shares were hurt by fears about how persistent flooding is affecting crops they rely…
Gapping Coming on California Colored Peppers
Colored peppers will see a gap in supplies out of California. “With red and yellow peppers, the Coachella Valley is…
Corn Creates Paradigm Shift
Trade, Other Concerns Ease Somewhat With Corn Price Rally The last few weeks of price moves have changed the market…
The Corn ‘Train Wreck’ May Be Worse Than Forecast, U.S. Farmers Warn
A smartphone could fit in the space between James McCune’s index finger and thumb as the Illinois farmer describes the…
Illinois Hemp Farmers Leverage High Risk for High Profit Potential
12,000 acres licensed in 1st year for industrial hemp Trent Lawrence had a rude awakening earlier this week. Overnight, mice…
Trudeau and Trump to Discuss Trade, China
Trudeau to meet Trump in Washington next week for talks on trade, China Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President…