AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Markets have turned mixed with wheat up on news Putin wants to rework the export deal, corn pulling back with soybeans. Livestock are mixed. Michelle Rook talks with Kent Beadle of CHS Hedging.
U.S. farmers confronting supply-chain bottlenecks and a surging dollar are losing their competitive edge in the global market for soybeans to their biggest rival: Brazil.
Marginal tax returns usually do not exceed 37%. However, in certain situations they can exceed 100,000%. We discuss when this can happen.
Shawn Conley is mad for soybeans: “It’s a crop with more moving parts than anyone except a farmer realizes, and there are so many nuances to work on that have yet to be explored.”
In 2020, Pat Duncanson began a three-year march toward organic certification on 100 acres of corn and soybean ground. After a weed honeymoon, weeds rebounded in 2021, and Duncanson brought in a chopping crew.
Prices have cooled from 14-year highs, but interest remains high for farmers to increase wheat acres or add the crop back to their mix.
Janna Fritz, newly named DF Seeds president, speaks to the need for both conventional and specialty seed products that can fuel farmer profitability and also meet consumer wants and needs.
Mostly higher opening, except cattle. Wheat leads on Putin export comments. Michelle Rook gets details from Allison Thompson of The Money Farm.
If the data review justifies any changes, NASS will publish updated planted and harvested acreage estimates.
Argentina’s daily soy trading volume hit its highest level in five and a half years, the country’s Rosario Grain Exchange said, after the government announced a higher foreign exchange rate during September.