APHIS issued its final rule on animal ID that has been in place since 2013, switching from solely visual tags to tags that are both electronically and visually readable for certain classes of cattle moving interstate.
In an effort to improve convergence between the wheat futures contract and cash wheat prices at contract expiration, CME Group called for seasonally increased storage fees, additional delivery points and stricter requirements on vomitoxin contamination Friday in a recommendation sent to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) .
Driving the all new 2009 Dodge Ram 1500 in Santa Barbara last week, I parked the new Ram R/T with the other well handling automobiles at the Bacara resort.
No producer wants to throw away money, especially when the majority of input costs are on the rise. As harvest time approaches, many producers will be flipping the switch on their grain bins and watching their energy bills soar. Tom Dorn, extension educator with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County, provides advice on how to avoid common and costly mistakes when drying grain.
Corn basis at -45¢ and soybeans in the -90¢ area have a lot of growers up in arms—and wondering if cash prices have lost all relationship to futures.
Ukrainians see their agricultural industry flexing its muscles, evolving out of the old inefficient collective farms left when the Soviet system collapsed in 1991.
