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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.
Michigan farmer Michael Stamp is facing time behind bars. Both Michael Stamp, and his wife Melissa Stamp, entered separate plea agreements with U.S. attorneys this week in a bankruptcy case dating back to 2012.
The story surrounding corn prices hasn’t changed the past few years. Farmers have been facing with stagnant corn prices for nearly five years now, something that may not change this spring.
FAPRI’s baseline projections point to little change in net farm income over the next decade, which could lead to further erosion in the farm financial picture for agriculture. For 2019, FAPRI sees livestock receipts not boasting the numbers USDA currently projects.
Founder of Channel Bio Corp, which later sold to Monsanto, Funk is re-launching the NC+ brand for western corn, soybean and grain sorghum growers.
While tasseling corn is months away, buzz around the farm has been about late-season diseases. Perhaps the most painful of which has been tar spot, a relatively new disease with no solution—until now.
On May 1, the USDA Grain Crushing report will provide an estimate of corn used for ethanol production in March. An expectation of continued weakness is in place for ethanol-based corn consumption that led to the USDA’s reduction by 150 million bushels since the September WASDE report, according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Todd Hubbs.
The Minnesota crop looks average, at best, according to Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour western leg lead Jeff Wilson.
Watch live as the Pro Farmer 2019 Crop Estimate is announced.
In response to legal action, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is cancelling registrations for 12 pesticides containing neonicotinoid.
In 2016, corn and soybean farmer Jim Backes learned he held the keys to unearthing a legend that had haunted his town since its founding.
A USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service employee, slated to speak at one of the tour’s events, received a threat by phone.
It’s the tale of two crops in Illinois this year: what was planted early and what was planted late. Scouts so a variable crop, from maturity to yield, on the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
While the data is an extremely accurate representation of what scouts saw in the field for that day, it will not be exactly the same as the official Pro Farmer yield estimates released on Friday.
As Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour scouts move deeper into the heart of the Corn Belt, the crops have improved compared to what they saw yesterday.
Crop tour scouts on the eastern leg of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour will make their way through western Illinois and into eastern Iowa today.
American farmers already stung by President Donald Trump’s trade wars now face billions of dollars in potential losses as controversial data from the U.S. government snuffs out a rally in corn.
Farm Journal Economist Chip Flory joins AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths for analysis of the WASDE and Crop Production reports.
Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer provides this “easy explanation of complex program.”
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Lack of longer-term investors imperils crop markets, bank says
U.S. Farm Report is on the road broadcasting from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. From the latest round of MFP payments to the weather market in the grains, the show covers it all.
As is so often the case, technical action (price changes) can predict fundamental changes in price direction market, and often does sometimes weeks in advance.
The state Department of Transportation says stalks can break the wind’s force and limit snow from blowing onto roads.
Following record crops and record grain stocks, farmers are finding new ways to use corn. Ethanol and animal feed seem to be old hat, making way for new uses such as shoes, car cushions and moisturizers.
In a nationwide class action, Syngenta will pay a $1.51 billion settlement to U.S. corn farmers, grain handling facilities and ethanol plants. The settlement covers corn priced after September 15, 2013.
A lawsuit claiming Monsanto Co.’s popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer was dealt a blow by a judge’s conclusions that the opinions of the experts testifying against it are “shaky,” a potentially devastating development for the case getting to trial.
Since the early 1990s, soil science professor David Laird of Iowa State University has been researching the use of biochar in row-crop fields. The tool can be helpful, but it also has limitations, he says.
This winter, farmers will undoubtedly be confronted with the infamous supply curve for commodities.