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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USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden outlined a list of priority topics for the agency in 2026.
Brad Kooima discusses the drivers behind current cattle market volatility and how supply shortages are shaping packer strategies.
“There is increasing concentration by leading landowners in that asset class. Number 100 in 2007 was 75,000 acres. Now it’s 170,000 acres,” says Eric O’Keefe, editor of The Land Report.
Live and feeder cattle futures were weaker to start Friday as the market was seeing some profit taking and caution ahead of the USDA Cattle on Feed Report according to Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek.
Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association says it appears Congress is going to kick the can again on getting the E15 legislation done.
Randy Martinson with Martinson Ag says wheat saw support on a combination of technical buying or short covering and the market was adding some weather premium.
Forecasters say roughly 230 million people are in the path of a dangerous winter storm threatening to drop crippling amounts of snow and ice as temperatures fall into the single digits.
New research shows that pairing hybrid root architecture with your tillage system and residue management is a way to grow more bushels.
Soybeans continued to rally on Thursday. Lane Akre, economist with Pro Farmer, says this isn’t just short covering.
New high-speed disk models offer autonomous operation while See & Spray provides new upgrades, delivering more ways for farmers to manage heavy residue and stubborn weeds.