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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.

The market is placing corn at or above trendline yields, and soybeans are healthy on old- and new-crop sides. With that in mind, producers should plan price strategies.
The USDA’s 2012 Census of Agriculture reveals farmers were older and more diverse than in 2007. What were the other highlights?
Traders assess weekend U.S. weather versus wheat crop performance and corn planting pace, while financial markets assess latest Ukraine developments.
Adapt-N, a new software program, analyzes corn crop dynamics, soil types, weather data and more to calculate a course of action for nitrogen use.
New limits announced for grain and oilseed futures beginning May 1.
A surge of cold air is expected to trail the front.
Cold weather and Black Sea tensions are in focus.
Brian Grete and Julianne Johnston discuss trends coming out of USDA reports.
Freezes occurred as far south as west-central Texas overnight.
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, reported fiscal second-quarter earnings and sales that exceeded analysts’ estimates.
See all of the report data, coverage and analysis of USDA’s March 31 Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports.
Traders did an impressive job anticipating March 1 corn stocks.
Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.
Firms sees corn acres down from 2013, with cotton, soybean and wheat acreage higher.
Farmers share their planter size and the number of grain trucks or semis on their farm via the Farm Journal Pulse.
Light rain is falling on the Southern Plains.
He made no changes to his Argentine crop estimates.
Input availability has also been relatively uninterrupted.
Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.
Announces elimination of price limits on grain and oilseed options.
But the pace of expansion has lowed the past two years.
Also notes strong growth in exports of DDGs.
BASF’s Zidua herbicide, previously registered for use only with corn and soybeans, has received Environmental Protection Agency registration for spring and winter wheat.
Dr. Cordonnier leaves his Brazilian corn crop peg unchanged.
Get more details from the final 2013 crop acreage “data dump.”
Dr. Michael Cordonnier leaves Brazilian estimates unchanged.
However, another giant U.S. corn crop is still a very real possibility this fall.
Delegation in China working on progress toward approval on MIR 162.
Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.
March corn for declined 0.5% to $4.255 a bu. at 4:58 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade after touching $4.2525, the lowest since Dec. 19.
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