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As more Americans become hooked on weight-loss medication, the impact on farmers could be substantial as more and cheaper versions of these drugs are released in the next few months.
“The public doesn’t realize what these animals are capable of,” says wildlife trapper James Dean. “Unfortunately, you’re going to see more and more reports of people getting hurt in wild pig encounters.”
From the roots up, Beck’s Hybrids and AgriGold promise new ways to talk about how to grow corn.
Some farming operations have been ruined by PFAS, but there’s still things the industry doesn’t know, including how PFAS enters the food chain. John Phipps thinks the debate over PFAS may just be getting started.
Soybeans 2-sided with mixed products. Corn disappoints after the reversal, wheat mixed. Cattle correct with equities; hogs see profit taking. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing has more.
Cattle oversold, following higher equities but cautious ahead of COF. Hogs see profit taking and so do soybeans. Corn higher with wheat and Mexican export biz. Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, has more.
Recent WASDE reports had assumed another record Brazilian soybean crop and Argentina returning to normal, but the El Niño weather pattern might have something to say about that.
China bought around 3 MMT of soybeans or 110 million bushels from the U.S. last week, a volume that reportedly surprised the market. They added another 7.5 million bushels on Monday.
Grain markets got shot out of a cannon in Monday’s trade, will we see that momentum continue through the week?
AgDay TV Markets Now: Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage, says South American weather is the key to the corn and soybean markets with the WASDE Report out of the way.