Agriculture News
![“Asian exporters are paying premium shipping rates, sometimes 10 times what the rate is for going from the [United] States back to Asia, and this shipping rate disparity incentivizes sending back those empty containers,” Borror said.](https://assets.farmjournal.com/dims4/default/5c9a336/2147483647/strip/true/crop/800x600+20+0/resize/500x375!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffj-corp-pub.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fs3fs-public%2F2021-02%2FExport-ship-840.jpg)
While dairy operations are working to expand, finding millions of more cows is challenging, feed costs are high and both land and water are scarce.
Yesterday, Brazil’s Infrastructure Minister Tarcisio de Freitas said efforts to save water and direct it to power generation will inevitably disrupt navigation on the Tiete-Parana waterway.
Boxed beef, pork cutout value continue to rise amid strong meat demand
Argentine cattle producers are slated to end their halt to meat sales at midnight tonight, but the ban could be renewed and extended to grain sales.
The market is breathing a collective sigh of relief that the outage was short-lived.
As rumored, the ethanol producer POET announced Tuesday it had acquired Flint Hills Resources’ entire ethanol business.
Chip Flory and Jim Wiesemeyer discuss the infrastructure bill and other policy matters pertinent to agriculture.
Highlights from today’s USDA Crop Progress and Condition Report.
Purdue University and CME Group report the Ag Economy Barometer dropped 20 points during May to a reading of 158 points, the lowest since September 2020.
JBS is the world’s largest meatpacker and it controls around 25% of all U.S. beef capacity and roughly 20% of its hog slaughter capacity.