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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill is urging the Missouri Clean Water Commission to deny the feedlot expansion request for Valley Oaks Steak Co.
News that one of the top U.S. tractor companies is dropping made-in-China products should be music to the Trump administration’s ears -- except for the fact that it’s replacing them with machines made in Brazil.
AgDay’s national reporter Betsy Jibben talks with Don Close of Rabo AgriFinance and Peter Zeihan, a Geopolitical Strategist and Author.
EPA says it has surveyed Superfund sites in flooded areas of Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.
The average trade estimate is 91.332 million acres for corn, 86.169 million soybean acres, 46.915 million wheat acres, according to a poll by Reuters.
The Prospective Plantings report, combined with the quarterly Grain Stocks report showed the U.S. has too much of everything, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
NASS Eliminates An Objective Yield Survey; Year-Round E15 Closer to Reality; The Trade War Takes A Heavy Toll
While he says soybeans are the most important, Nicholson outlined a handful that he sees as equally important to U.S. agriculture.
Global trade is helping with beef demand and countries like China will play an important role in years to come.