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President Donald Trump signed H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act, better known as the 2018 Farm Bill, in a ceremony at USDA Thursday afternoon.
In response to legal action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is cancelling registrations for 12 pesticides containing neonicotinoid.
American farmers already stung by President Donald Trump’s trade wars now face billions of dollars in potential losses as controversial data from the U.S. government snuffs out a rally in corn.
Farm Journal Economist Chip Flory joins AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths for analysis of the WASDE and Crop Production reports.
Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer provides this “easy explanation of complex program.”
Lack of longer-term investors imperils crop markets, bank says
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After the USDA released its January crop production and World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) reports on Friday, the market had a mostly muted response.
Due to the holiday season, export sales were delayed and the significant number of cancellations were concerning, says Jamie Wasemiller of the Gulke Group.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group and Farm Journal’s Pam Fretwell discussed the events that helped the market to recover such as in the case for soybeans, a positive close for the week after a poor start.