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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.

The unexplained suspension of operations of a key Chinese agricultural data provider has left traders, analysts and brokers scrambling for other sources of information on one of the world’s most important farm markets.

The Hernando de Soto Bridge, which links Memphis and eastern Arkansas, could be closed to vehicle traffic for a couple of months. Grain exporters are hoping barge traffic will be able to resume much sooner.

Meteorologist Matt Engelbrecht takes a look at the snowfall map.

A significant fracture on the I-40 bridge is now shut down to not only vehicle traffic, but barges until the issue can be fixed. The emergency shut down is a barrier for barge traffic along the Mississippi River.

Inflation concerns are heating up as fresh data from the Labor Department shows U.S. consumer prices have risen more than 4% over the past year, marking the sharpest increase since 2008.

Farmers are only 30 growing seasons from the biggest challenge agriculture has ever faced—growing 70% more food on the same amount of land they do today.