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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EPA is essentially ignoring the carbon reduction contributions of biofuels, such as ethanol, that are available to scale and at a low cost for consumers, says Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association.
Corn and soybeans end higher but new crop leads putting weather premium. Wheat ignores crop ratings and weather, watches Black Sea news. Fund buying, strong cash supports cattle. Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions.
Kansas typically accounts for 25% of the nation’s winter wheat production, but ongoing drought is weighing on overall crop conditions. Farmers are now facing the possibility of increased abandonment this year.
Wheat sets back on profit taking, with corn & beans trying to hold watching weather, seeing spread trade. Live cattle are consolidating, while feeders are supported by strong cash. Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag.
2-Sided in livestock with some consolidation. Will cash be higher again this week? Are hogs trying to bottom? Some profit taking and spread unwinding in corn. More with Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek.
USDA’s latest Crop Progress report shows an open window with weather spurred a jump in corn and soybean planting last week. USDA shows 8% of the nation’s corn crop and 4% of the U.S. soybean crop is now planted.
Just as your crops will be doing soon, financial risks are growing this year.
A couple of years ago I was approached with a novel idea. Could we use the show to help share stories about the U.S. with those outside this country and perhaps help them learn English as a second language as well?
The strike by the Urgara grain inspectors union that prevented the loading of ships at the main Rosario export hub today is scheduled to end at midnight.