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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Some parts of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska saw precipitation this past week, but dry weather prevails in many areas.
Frightening moments caught on camera in Jefferson, Iowa: an explosion at a grain elevator. The grain elevator explosion happened north west of Des Moines at Landus Cooperative. Reports show no one was injured.
Brian Doerr recently introduced regenerative agriculture practices, including cover crops, on his family’s Nebraska farm. He details his decision-making and implementation steps here.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated three small refinery exemptions (SREs) on Wednesday. The now vacated exemptions were granted by former President Trump’s administration a day before he left office.
EPA’s biofuel blending mandates for 2021 and 2022 are likely to be in line with those of 2020 as the agency accounts for weaker fuel demand since the onset of the pandemic, three sources familiar with the matter said.
Kansas Wheat Tour scouts say the crop is behind schedule in terms of development, along with pockets of disease, drought and freeze damage. However, yield potential on day produced a yield of 59.2 bushels per acre.
An unprecedented meeting held early this month among major cattle industry representatives has now produced plans for change. It’s happening while a group of U.S. lawmakers are also asking the DOJ for answers.
Grain prices are already historically high, and a possible weather scare could produce even higher feed prices. Now with a price imbalance in cattle prices, producers are faced with a double dose of bad news.
The plan requires conserving 440 million acres.
The latest U.S. Drought monitor indicates drought is gripping pastures, with 60% of the nation’s cow herd is now in some level of drought or dryness, and it’s causing cow slaughter numbers to climb.
Yield prospects for hard red winter wheat in central Kansas were above average, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday, although yield-robbing diseases, primarily stripe rust, were prevalent in some areas.
The company says it plans to help “decarbonize the farm and food value chain and enable farmers to earn additional revenue through positive climate action.”
Whether the mercury is too high or the rain gauge too low, those producers who have already put away the planter now play the waiting game. And as always, the stakes are high.
Corn prices closed in the green Tuesday, but old crop soybean prices were under pressure again. AgriTalk host Chip Flory digested Tuesday’s market action with Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain.
The Ag Credit Survey from the KC Federal Reserve shows strong profit potential for farm borrowers is helping support a second consecutive quarter of increasing farm incomes, loan repayment rates and farmland values.
Reuters reported POET is in talks with Flint Hills Resources to buy all its ethanol assets. The possible deal would increase POET’s production capacity to up to 3 billion gallons a year.
Tile systems have made enormous positive differences in our yields, soil tilth and even fertilizer use, so I’m aware of the bias my mind has on information that seems implicate tile as a problem for nitrate pollution.
President Biden will make the case for his $174 billion electric vehicle plan Tuesday, calling for government grants for new battery production facilities during a visit to a Ford Motor electric-vehicle plant in Mich.
The latest USDA Crop Progress Report shows 80% of the corn crop is now planted, which is 12 points ahead of the five-year average. Soybean planting is 61% complete nationwide.
Rodrigo Santos has been named chief operating officer, assuming global responsibility for the division’s commercial organization.
U.S. corn futures rose 1.5% on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pegged planting progress behind market expectations, stoking concerns over global supply.
This week Chip Flory and Jim Wiesemeyer discuss Liz Cheney’s removal, COVID-19, the Colonial Pipeline and more.
It can be difficult to decide when to tear out a field and start over. Get Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie’s recommendations here.
A federal appeals court upheld a $25 million judgment and trial verdict finding Roundup caused a California resident’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma, dealing a blow to Bayer’s hopes of limiting legal risk over the weed killer.
The CDC recently announced new protocols for fully vaccinated people. Chip Flory discusses these new measures Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team.
As the extreme volatility and extended price limits played out in the markets this week, Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain says the main issue traders are watching are possible changes to corn acreage this year.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturer’s releasing its April “flash report”. AEM shows sales of all tractors were up 39% year to date, while smaller tractor sales were up 21% compared to last year.
As of Friday morning, there were 62 vessels and 1,058 barges in the queue, ready to head to the Gulf.
China’s corn buying spree continued Friday with a sale of 1.36 million metric tons (mmt). The announcement came on the heels of a week of consistent new crop sales.
Federal and state water projects say they will provide little to no irrigation water to many agricultural customers, so farmers must calculate how much food they can grow with their limited supplies.