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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The definition of “sustainability” is changing, and that change is coming quickly to our doorsteps.
The House recently passed the Lower Food and Fuels Cost Act which includes a special USDA investigator. However, there’s divide on if this is the right approach to restoring competition in the cattle market.
Getting rid of your unused pesticides or pesticide containers takes time and proper steps. As such, it can take awhile to get to the top of your to-do list.
Soybeans continue their big rally pushed by weather and new contract highs in meal, wheat is lower and corn is caught in the middle. Hogs rebounding, with the cattle mixed. Markets await Fed announcement.
The paper agreement to restart Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea is running up against the reality of how difficult and risky the pact will be to carry out.
Grains open mostly higher except wheat as soybean meal hits contract highs again. Markets are trading weather and awaiting the Fed announcement. Livestock are leaning higher except nearby live cattle.
Ever-larger farm equipment requires ever-larger tools with ever-larger price tags.
Increased demand from Europe amid the war in Ukraine drove a rise in exports to an average of 11.2 billion cubic feet per day, a 12% jump compared to the second half of 2021.
From drought to flooding, farm fields outside of St. Louis are proof too much rain isn’t a good thing, especially when it falls in only hours. As much as 14.1 inches of rain fell in some locations triggering flooding.
IMF now expects the world economy to grow 3.2% in 2022 before slowing to a 2.9% GDP rate in 2023 — marking a downgrade of 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points, respectively, from its April forecasts.