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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A proposed government trade policy aimed at boosting U.S. shipbuilding could significantly increase costs for grain shippers.
Shawn Hackett, Hackett Financial Advisors, says corn and soybeans saw risk off profit taking heading into the weekend and have settled into a trading range going into the end of quarter and have priced in early acreage estimates.
The past 15+ years have brought two developments that have changed the dynamic for farmland investment.
The majority of respondents in the March Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor agree the U.S. is currently in a trade war, but who wins? Ag economists say it’s not the U.S., Canada or Mexico but rather Brazil that could come out on top.
Scott Varilek of Kooima Kooima Varilek says cattle have been resilient continuing to shake off any bad news and uncover buying on any break. Grains continue to chop ahead of the weekend.
Look for the sensitive areas in your fields now, advises Steve Pitstick, who farms 50 miles west of the Chicago suburbs. Be proactive and be informed, he adds, so making product use adjustments won’t be a huge lift this season.
Dave Chatterton, Strategic Farm Marketing, says corn was supported by strong demand with a 59 million bu. weekly export figure Thursday morning and unconfirmed talk that Brazil was buying U.S. corn.
Dan Jacobi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Benson Hill, said the company’s fate is the result of industry challenges and financial constraints.
The anticipation of tariffs led U.S. buyers to stockpile Canadian potash.
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