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Of 772 farmers surveyed, 522 said they wouldn’t change their crop mix, regardless of what they learned from the Prospective Plantings Report.

Cotton futures slumped more than 3% on Thursday as a U.S. government report showed a sharp slide in weekly export sales, putting prices of the natural fiber on course for their third straight weekly decline.

Archer Daniels Midland said on Thursday it would restart ethanol production at two of its U.S. corn dry mills this year, as the grains trader expects demand for the biofuel to rebound from a pandemic-led slump.

A state-by-state breakdown of the acreage report shows North Dakota farmers plan to increase corn acres by 69% over 2020, but even with the large increase, U.S. Farm Report analysts say there are still acres missing.

One farm tax expert says the proposal wouldn’t just tack on that tax at death. He says the proposal, as written today, would also place a tax on gifting assets like tractors while the farmer is still alive.

For perspective, there were fewer mining-related fatalities (24) than so called confined-space fatalities (39) documented in 2019.

The White House has directed EPA to study whether using renewable fuels to power electric vehicle charging should generate tradeable credits under the nation’s biofuels program.

USDA chief economist Seth Meyer says leading into the report, USDA expected higher prices to incentive farmers to plant more acres this year, but the first survey-based report told a different story.

USDA’s Prospective Plantings report released Wednesday showed farmers intend to plant more acres overall, but fewer than what the trade expected. Here’s a breakdown of which states are seeing a shift in 2021 acres.