Crops
As a part of its most recent marketing efforts, NASCAR released a promotional video professing its love for American ethanol.
The fund-led rally in soybeans is presenting a selling opportunity. While not as strong, there’s also a selling opportunity in the corn market on the corrective rebound.
AgWeb.com will have full coverage of USDA’s April reports, following the 11 a.m. Central Time releases.
USDA’s March planting intentions were much higher than expected for corn and lower than anticipated for soybeans. This was likely the highest acreage figure the market will see for corn and the lowest for soybeans this year.
AgWeb.com will have full coverage of USDA’s March 9 reports, following the 11 a.m. Central Time releases.
Too much supply, not enough demand and limited prospects for a significant improvement in export demand leave the grain and soybean markets grasping for bullish news on the weather front. A summer weather rally may happen, but I wouldn’t use pen if writing that into your marketing plan.
Curtis Thompson, weed management specialist, has compiled information about seven corn herbicides newly available for the 2016 growing season.
Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.
Chip Flory to host new market-oriented radio show.
Cancellations are not a surprise given ongoing issues with unapproved GMO varieties.
FOMC announces additional $10-billion-per-month reduction in asset-purchases.
Jamie Walter, CEO and president of Whiskey Acres, was in search of ways to diversify his family’s 2,000-acre corn and soybean operation when inspiration hit: What if they used their grain as a feature ingredient in premium spirits such as vodka, whiskey and bourbon? In 2011, they decided to see if they could make an on-farm distillery work.
Records are made to be broken, and the record for high-yielding corn has been broken once again, according to the National Corn Growers Association 2015 National Corn Yield Contest results.
Cases claim the company caused losses by marketing MIR162 before Chinese approval
A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.
Behind a palace so colorful and rich in history is one lone grower.
Bernie Sanders’ admiration for corn-based fuel is winning him some praise in unusual places.
The market is bracing for a slight reduction in USDA’s corn yield estimate in Friday’s crop production report with disappointing yield reports already coming in from southern corn-producing states.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., the world’s largest processor of corn, posted second-quarter earnings and sales that missed analysts’ estimates after a decline in ethanol margins and crop export volumes.
A seed production company says about two dozen of its corn detasselers were sprayed with fungicide from a crop duster working on a neighboring western Indiana field.
Mother Nature is giving farmers a run for their money this year, but, thankfully, there’s a growing crop to tend to in most areas.
Understand nitrogen loss, timing and placement to build the foundation for high yields
Monsanto releases Warrant Ultra.
Dow sells first Enlist Duo herbicide in U.S.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Houston Wall pleaded guilty to the federal misdemeanor of misbranding products in interstate commerce for claiming in 2010 that crops of corn were organic
Insect resistance is a serious threat,and scientists are hard at work on the next solutions.
Bird flu worries began to infect the commodity markets Tuesday after the news spread that an Iowa egg-laying operation would need to destroy millions of hens due to the virus.
Black Sea crops are enjoying near-perfect conditions and Europe is holding its breath for a decision from Russia regarding its export taxes. Odds increasingly favor their removal.
A flock of 175,000 chickens in Minnesota, the first in the state, was confirmed to have the highly contagious variety of avian influenza. USDA also confirmed additional cases for turkey flocks in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin.
South Africa is aggressively seeking new markets for its grains in the Middle East and Asia. This year’s corn crop shrank due to drought and transportation infrastructure needs improvement but the nation places high value on trade as a route to for food security.