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While the reports can swing markets, they’re created through a process that relies largely on windshield surveys, coffee shop talk and educated estimates from county Extension agents.
Your analysts pull out the key data from today’s Crop Production and Supply & Demand Reports.
Rising household incomes, increasing production and favorable trade policies have led to major growth in U.S. agricultural exports in the past several decades.
Traders were expecting bullish numbers from Tuesday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), but the projections were even friendlier than anticipated.
Corn Production Down 1 Percent from October Forecast Soybean Production Down 2 Percent Cotton Production Up less than 1 Percent
President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to work more closely with U.S. allies in confronting China on trade, and is seen as unlikely to roll back his predecessor’s tariffs.
Watch for live, ag-centric analysis of the 2020 election with Jim Wiesemeyer of DC Signal to Noise as well as AgriTalk Radio’s Chip Flory, Clinton Grifiths of AgDay TV and more.
Ag policies at the center of the presidential election.
Farm Journal Editor Clinton Griffiths will host a forum on the presidential candidates’ stance on food and ag policy sponsored by The Farm Foundation. Watch live at 9 a.m. Central.
Farmers are reporting long delays in payments under the WHIP+ disaster aid program.