Agriculture News
Get preliminary updates from Tour leaders as they make their way through Nebraska, Indiana and Illinois.
Corn futures are under mild pressure as soybeans and wheat firm. Cattle futures are mixed with lean hogs mostly higher on the open.
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Farmland values are soaring. Now the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City are putting numbers on the annual gains.
Because USDA no longer collects objective yield samples in August, this will be the industry’s first broad look at field data from across the Corn Belt.
While we’re scouting fields across the Corn Belt Aug. 16-19 on the Pro Farmer Crop Tour, you can scout your own fields.
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Its initial soybean crop estimate was also a bit smaller than expected, and it sliced its all wheat crop quite a bit more than the market anticipated. The market was also caught leaning the wrong way on cotton.
“Increased drought coverage and intensity was more common, as a large majority of these areas recorded light precipitation at best,” today’s drought summary says.
But exports of the oilseed hit a marketing-year low.
Cash wheat prices firm, though HRS values ease from their elevated levels.