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
Wheat reverses as a drone strike on the Kremlin puts the Black Sea grain deal in question, pulling corn & beans off the lows. Cattle down ahead of Fed decision w/lower cash. Dave Chatterton, Strategic Farm Marketing.
Risk off selling again in cattle, corn & soybeans ahead of the FOMC announcement and with support breached. Wheat bounces on a Russian war headline. Short covering in hogs. Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company.
This blog summarizes the 60-plus year history of the European’s Common Agricultural Policy, from its launch as a system set up to protect producers in six European countries to today’s 27-member EU exporting behemoth.
Two recent studies confirm the notion that greater use of conserving practices such as no-till and cover cropping can reduce the incidence of prevented planting under the federal crop insurance program.
Released in March, the sixth IPCC assessment report finds that the planet is likely to exceed the 1.5 degree C warming target established in the Paris Accord, which will put more stress on the global agricultural sector.
This blog describes advances in agricultural biotechnology in recent decades, and how gene editing techniques can be used to help farmers adjust to climate change.
Winds topping 55 mph, along with dry soils, recently planted fields and the direction of the fierce winds, all created the “perfect storm” to cause the major dust storm that turned fatal Monday in Illinois.