Don’t take equipment to fields too soon and create headaches that will linger all season. While you wait for the right timing, consider doing prep work and projects that can help set you up for yield success.

Cattle futures see a chart breakout following higher cash, hogs consolidate. Grains fail to extend gains ahead of the WASDE and with China cancelling more SRW wheat. Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, has more.

Grains end higher Thursday with technical buying and short covering by the funds. So, are the lows in? DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, has the answers and also covers the mostly higher action in cattle and hogs.

Don’t pull the radiator until you’ve replaced the radiator cap.

Of note: Ag groups are mostly praising SEC’s move to shield the ag sector.

Through the Frontier Fields program, a select group of farmers will document their experiences with a biological product over the course of a year.