Corn
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Heat and dryness again helped the grain and soy markets to post gains for the day.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Grain and soybean futures ended the day under pressure. Read more...
But a more active storm track is expected to slow progress a bit next week.
The U.S. dollar index is marginally lower, while crude oil futures are posting solid losses.
For the week, corn and soybeans posted losses, while wheat was little changed for the week.
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie notes that in most cases, trenches are sealing well. However, in some especially dry areas he’s hearing complaints that that’s not always the case.
A positive USDA report sent grain prices higher this week.
Big questions remain over how a Joe Biden administration might administer the nation’s biofuel law, the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and the stakes are high for both the farming and oil refining industries.
Together with Mycogen Seeds, FFA students will have the opportunity to see what it’s like in the life of a corn seed sales rep.
Sue Martin, president and owner of Ag and Investment Services, Inc., has been watching futures prices on corn. She is noticing a pattern that has happened since 1969 that has proven favorable for farmers 18 out of 19 years.
The European Union (EU) court recently ruled in favor of Italian farmer Giorgio Fidenato who planted GMO corn. Italy didn’t allow farmers to plant GMO products and sued Fidenato in 2013, according to AP.
The marketplace appears to be buying time until more information on wheat quality and corn replanting is available, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
Seed fails to control damaging worm, group says in letter.
U.S. corn futures edged higher on Friday, as the grain was poised to post its biggest one-month gain in more than two years on global supply concerns.
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.