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Today’s commodity market news. Featuring expert analysis from Michelle Rook, Jerry Gulke and Pro Farmer Editors.
Congress returns | Spending bills | SNAP | USDA reports Friday
President is more upbeat than most on eventual TPP approval
Budget | WOTUS rule | US farm economy | Livestock & poultry industries | Food prices
Effort began in 2015 in a handful of areas before this year’s nationwide rollout
Veto threats and amendments helped defeat spending bill
Reduction on imports far outpaced the export reduction to boost forecast surplus
But economists again make several changes within the outlook
Record-high EBI with lowest percentage of applications accepted for general signup
Menu labeling, SNAP provisions included | Hoeven ARC pilot amendment adopted
FOMC Minutes: Fed ‘Left Open’ Potential for June Rate Rise | Global risks did diminish but bear watching
GE crops have had positive outcomes for producers | No human health issues found in extensive two-year review
Sens. Roberts, Stabenow keep trying to find compromise on thorny topic
Ag spending bill | Farm credit | Regulations & ag | Reports on GMOs, TPP
By Bill Horan: Rockwell City, Iowa Trust the science and play by the rules. It’s that simple. The Environmental Protection Agency should remember these two principles as it thinks about a crop-protec
While more spending than conservatives want, funding linked to cuts in entitlement programs
By Bill Horan: Rockwell City, Iowa President Obama caused a stir across the pond last week when he waded into the debate over whether the United Kingdom should quit the European Union. President Obama urged the
Current level of payouts likely to increase slightly in coming weeks
Host of adjustments made to meat price forecasts
By Carol Keiser: Belleair, Florida It’s worse than we had feared. That’s what public-health officials confessed this week about the Zika virus. “Everything we look at with this virus seem
By Le Thi Trang Nha: Binh Duong Province, Vietnam Half a century ago, my country was at war with America. For two decades, a brutal conflict ravaged both the United States and Vietnam. I lost my grandparents in
2015 crop data also shows active loan redemptions
Having it both ways on crop insurance, farm bill programs
Budget markups | Immigration & Supreme Court | Financial constraints in ag
From too complex (ARC), to not working at all (cotton), to changes needed (dairy)
By Nyasha Mudukuti: Chikombedzi, Zimbabwe My country’s government would rather see people starve than let them eat genetically modified food. That’s the only conclusion to draw from the announceme
Agriculture, energy the two downbeat sectors; US dollar impact noted on ag exports
USDA sent proposal to OMB several weeks ago