Crops
While timely planting is important, the advantages of an earlier planting date can be lost if tillage and planting operations occur when the soil is too wet.
Demand for dietary energy in feed rations is pulling distillers’ grains into feed formulas in place of corn, but also displacing some soybean meal in the process.
Corn planting has started, cotton is pacing ahead of normal and winter wheat conditions continue to slide.
USDA’ s corn planting progress are even with year-ago levels and five-year average. Changes in some states.
Acreage would produce 13.83 bill. bu. crop if trend line yields are realized.
There can be little doubt that NASS acreage and production reports are among the biggest market movers year-in and year-out.
Rising corn futures picked up momentum today after Informa Economics estimated that producers will plant fewer corn acres than USDA projected last month.
Corn, soybeans and wheat prices dropped like a rock this week, capped off by a WASDE report with no positive news.
End users struggle to balance old-crop supplies with aggressive demand
Farmers will spend more to produce their 2011 crops but they’re likely to make that up -- and then some.
Fasten your seatbelts as this week may only prove to be a precursor for what we should expect this spring and summer.
BASF’s Nick Fassler discusses the use of Headline AMP.
Corn stocks are tight, demand is staying strong, and competition for acreage is tough.
With new crop cotton futures over $1.20, cotton will compete fiercely for U.S. acreage this spring, and many analysts expect it to come out a winner.
The slowing pace of soybean exports and export sales suggest that the rationing process has been completed.
While not bearish on soybean prices, Kevin Van Trump says cotton and corn prices look to have more positive demand.
The basis on both corn and soybeans has widened over the past couple of months, depressing cash prices on both corn and soybeans.
Despite less-than-ideal soil conditions and above-normal temperatures, U.S. corn growers harvested the third largest crop on record.
Be ready for changes when you visit your crop insurance agent this year.
Capacity of off-farm commercial grain storage in the United States totaled 9.74 billion bushels on December 2010, up 3% from December 2009.
Corn for grain production is estimated at 12.4 billion bushels, down 1 percent from the Nov. 1 forecast and 5 percent below the record high production of 13.1 billion bushels set in 2009.
See the corn area harvested, yield and production figures.
Tomorrow is the big day, the Jan. 12 Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports. Here’s what you need to know before the reports are released.
The 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System transports around 15% of the U.S. crude oil production. It’s closed with no estimate of reopening.
Will we find this summer that the worst of the worst occurred before the stimulus programs had time to have a material effect, setting the stage for overstimulus and inflation?