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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.
Storm damage, power outages keeping all southern Louisiana terminals closed. Argentine producers consider grain and cattle trade strike to protest restrictions on beef exports. Brazil investigating suspected BSE case.
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.
STB rules against CN voting trust for Kansas City Southern deal
Ahead of the Open | September 1, 2021 Corn, soybean futures lower on favorable Midwest weather, export concerns, wheat mixed.
After the Bell | August 31, 2021 Corn, soybeans under pressure with Midwest crop poised to finish strong, wheat firm amid tighter world stockpiles.
Transportation expert comments on Hurricane Ida destruction. Russia could extend mineral extraction tax to fertilizer. Indian monsoon rains expected to pick up. Litigation, confusion follow overturning of water rule.
“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.
A major U.S. shipper will divert shipments away from New Orleans, China’s PMI slips and an Arizona Judge struck down a Trump administration water rule...