The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday sued two top pesticide manufacturers for allegedly entering into exclusive contracts with distributors that kept prices paid by farmers artificially high.

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Soybean prices slid Friday after USDA’s Grain Stocks report was released, but aren’t the only reason analysts are concerned; early yield reports from the Midwest are also surprising to Arlan Suderman and Darren Frye.

Updated soybean outlook & keys to watch over the next 90 days.

Fertilizer is always a big line item for your production costs. For 2023, plan on it being an even bigger chunk.

Grain and livestock markets ended mixed reacting to USDA reports, Black Sea news, outside markets and it was also end of quarter. Michelle Rook gets the summary with Bryan Doherty of Total Farm Marketing.