Agriculture News
Our Market Watch table features monthly and quarterly price outlooks along with weekly prices for a variety of ag markets.
China bought a total of 5.812 MMT of corn the week ending May 20, with 5.644 MMT of those purchases being new-crop.
Argentine port workers launched another 48-hour strike at midnight as they continue to push to be designated essential workers so they can receive Covid-19 vaccines.
FSA will invest $10 million to measure and monitor the soil carbon sequestration and other climate and environmental benefits of conservation practices over the life of CRP contracts
The all-items consumer price index climbed 0.8% from March to April, with the gauge of economy-wide inflation now up 4.2% from year-ago levels, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.
Ceres Global Ag Corp. today announced it will build a $350 million canola crushing facility in Northgate, Saskatchewan, which is near Canada’s border with the U.S.
Dr. Dermot Hayes says even with possible mandatory overtime to compensate for lost capacity, the industry will lose 2.5% of overall harvest capacity if the ruling stands, with small producers likely to be hardest-hit.
A Mexican federal judge shot down a request by the National Farm Council to freeze a plan by the Mexican government to ban genetically modified (GMO) corn and the herbicide glyphosate by 2024.
When USDA’s weekly crop condition ratings are plugged into the weighted Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index, the HRW rating improved while the SRW ratings fell.
The pork and beef stocks numbers both speak to pent-up consumer demand as Covid-related restrictions ease.