Weather conditions at planting, herbicide damage, insects and poor closure of the furrow are just a handful of the factors that can hinder corn emergence success.

Grains up on fund buying, putting in weather premium w/drop in crop ratings, but soy products are also pushing beans. Cattle consolidate w/higher corn, hogs mixed. Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair, Rep. Jason Smith, has sponsored a bill that seeks to prevent foreign adversaries from acquiring U.S. agricultural land.

Cattle correcting today and the top may be in short term says Brad Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek. What will cash do this week? Has the hog rally run its course? Corn, beans rally on drop in crop ratings, weather.

EPA’s proposed RVOs are considered outdated, as they don’t take into account the expected growth in renewable diesel production capacity.

We recently asked farmers what’s the most random thing they’ve found in their fields. Here are a few of the responses.