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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Latest News
USDA’s Cold Storage Report showed a downtick in total frozen beef and pork stocks from month-ago levels.
Canadian farmers intend to plant more barley and corn for grain in 2016 than in 2015, but smaller areas of wheat, canola, soybeans and oats, according to Statistics Canada’s March Farm Survey.
Machinery Pete highlights recent record high auction sale prices on rare IHC 2 2 tractors from the early 1980s
Drenching rains were badly needed, following a dry March in the Great Plains. Get more weather highlights from Meteorologist Gail Martell.
Potash and Phosphate prices firmed mildly this week on seasonal tendencies.
Todd “Bubba” Horwitz says with all of the potential problems that farming can create, farmers can do things to protect and alleviate the unforeseen problems that come their way.
South American Crop Consultant Dr. Michael Cordonnier trimmed his Brazil crop pegs on dry conditions in northeastern Brazil and heavy rains hampering soybean harvest in Rio Grande do Sul.
Some form of drought now covers 93.4% of Kansas, up from 74% last week. Moderate drought across the state also spread.
Pro Farmer Senior Economist Dan Vaught takes a look at the long-term trends in hog and pork production.