AgDay
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With the current season fresh on your mind, beware the temptation to base too much of your 2023 plan on what you encountered in 2022, cautions Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Renewable diesel capacity topped 2 billion gallons per year as of August, according to the latest data released from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But EPA used a lower figure.
Foreign investors own 37.6 million acres of U.S. agricultural land, which is 2.9% of all privately held agricultural land and 1.7% of all U.S. land.
Europeans argue that the act is a beggar-thy-neighbor scheme designed to lure investors away from Europe, just as the region’s economy teeters on the verge of recession.
Markets are mixed early. Can corn and wheat recover after technical damage or will funds sell more? Soybeans up on easing China COVID policy. What’s ahead for cattle? Kevin Duling of KD Investors has details.
While U.S. agriculture isn’t facing an existential threat, the same cannot be said for farmers abroad, particularly in the developing world.
How often do you soil test each of your fields?
According to Biden’s economic advisors, as many as 765,000 Americans — many union workers themselves — would have been put out of work in the first two weeks of shutdowns.
It’s still too early to tell the long-term impacts for farmers with EPA’s proposal for renewable fuels, says Jerry Gulke. But the short-term effect was a price drop.