Three recent headlines from the financial world have farmers asking how those events could affect their lending situation.

Weather supports soybeans, corn steady after holding the July low, while wheat falls with poor demand, fading war news. Cattle and hogs on seasonal weakness and fund selling. Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures has more.

State regulations, insists Steven Slonaker, can be more burdensome than federal oversight to farmers and private landowners.

Gregg Doud, who led often-intense discussions with China between 2018 and 2020 as the chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S., will deliver the Henry C. Gardiner Global Food Systems lecture at Kansas State University.

Soybeans up on weather and export biz, with corn pulled down by wheat, poor technicals. Profit taking in crude oil. Cattle consolidating awaiting cash direction. Randy Martinson, Martinson Ag has details.

In early 2022, a possible trucker shortage grabbed headlines, but John Phipps says even today, there isn’t much hard data to substantiate that alarm.