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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Through the Frontier Fields program, a select group of farmers will document their experiences with a biological product over the course of a year.
Grains are firm in the early morning trade, knocking on the door of some significant resistance levels.
Grains see early strength ahead of the WASDE and with some better demand news. Cattle are mixed ahead of cash development, hogs mostly higher trying to recover. Kent Beadle, Paradigm Futures, has more.
Edgewood Locker got its start in rural northeast Iowa in 1966. The business now spans over three generations, and it’s largely thanks to Joan Kerns who helped start the family business that’s now seen phenomenal growth.
AgDay TV Markets Now: John Heinberg, Total Farm Marketing says corn is in consolidation mode but held up well Wednesday in light of contract lows in wheat and talk of China cancellations.
While USDA’s new livestock and poultry market final rule aims to address discrimination and promote competition, critics argue it could lead to excessive regulation and higher consumer prices.
Corn saw short covering, despite contract lows in wheat on talk of China SRW cancellations. Soybeans see Brazil harvest pressure. Cattle and hogs are consolidating. John Heinberg, Total Farm Marketing, has details.
In today’s 2 minute drill, we zoom in on the monthly chart of May corn futures. We saw a nice pop off of the contract lows in late February, but have been stuck in a 10 1/2 cent range since then.
Steve May is a big believer in data and what it can do to help improve efficiency and productivity in a farm operation. May uses AFS Connect to make more informed decisions.
Douglass Steiger celebrates his 90th birthday as two new green Steigers roll off the line.