Agriculture News
Find updates to our short-term, intermediate- and long-term trends for commodity and key outside markets.
Survey finds impressive gains in Illinois farmland values for all classes of farmland
Corn and soybean inspections dropped sharply, as expected, due to impacts from Hurricane Ida.
Corn and wheat futures are under light pressure with soybeans mixed with a lower bias. Fat cattle futures are higher to open the week with feeders and lean hogs under pressure.
Slightly firmer tone in grain and soy futures coming out of the extended holiday weekend.
China’s July pork shipments from the U.S. plummeted 62.2% from year-ago.
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This week’s National Drought Monitor reflected widespread improvement across areas of the Midwest and eastern parts of the Central and Northern Plains in response to beneficial rainfall.
Corn and soybean basis and cash prices plunged over the past week.
The reporting period preceded Hurricane Ida. New-crop sales of soymeal were also impressive at nearly 400,000 MT.
The Renewable Fuels Association supports EPA’s reevaluation of the exemptions, but it objects to EPA’s remand request.
If the review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates in the Sept. 10 Crop Production Report.
“The loud and angry debates over crop-protection products in Europe can give the false impression that farmers like me are prone to over-use chemicals on what we grow,” Maria Gabriela Cruz says in this guest blog post.
Argentina’s government has extended its restrictions on beef exports until the end of October, a politically charged move that’s likely to anger the country’s meat producers.
CCI ratings for both crops are below the respective five-year averages for the end of August.
Chip Flory and Pro Farmer Policy Analyst Jim Wiesemeyer discuss policy issues and happenings in D.C.
Its July Estimates Production of Principal Field Crops report shows durum wheat crop prospects down 39.2% from the 2020 season at nearly 4.00 MMT, with spring wheat crop prospects down 37.7% at 16.10 MMT.
Soybean inspections were stronger than the market anticipated, but expectations were limited and the amount of beans inspected for export were well under year-ago levels.
Corn and soybean futures face light pressure as wheat futures rise. Livestock futures are narrowly mixed to start the week...