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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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.
House and Senate Ag Committee members have a tough job ahead of them writing the 2023 farm bill. They’ll have to balance Republican plans to cut federal spending with desires from farm groups.
On August 22, fire departments in and around Moravia, Iowa responded to a grain bin entrapment. The man who was trapped, along with those who rescued him, explain everything they did to successfully rescue Wilson.
Markets mostly higher on Tuesday, except soybeans as Argentina makes currency play. Michelle Rook talks with Ted Seifried of Zaner Ag Hedge.