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A seasoned crop consultant shares a list of items that are sure to make scouting a bit easier this spring.

Corn and soybeans lost early gains on technical selling and bearish outside markets. Wheat saw short covering. Cattle saw more fund liquidation, with more short covering in hogs. Garrett Toay, AgTraderTalk, has more.

For the latest list—based on 2022 data—47 of the 100 cooperatives are in agriculture. In all, 59% of the $319 billion in generated revenues of co-operatives are from those ag-focused co-ops: $187.6 billion.

Despite improvements, the two largest Colorado River reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, remain at low levels. Lake Mead is currently at 34% capacity and Lake Powell is at 37%.

With drought and heat stress in Iowa this season corn and soybean yields are variable, but not that far off of 2022.

A team at K-State has been chosen by the World Organisation of Animal Health to lead an international effort that will develop decision-making tools and improve communication on the economic impacts of animal diseases.

Corn & beans fade with outside markets despite friendly soybean export news. Wheat holds gains on short covering and Ukraine headlines. Cattle consolidate. Hogs extend gains. DuWayne Bosse, Bolt Marketing, has more.

God bless grain cart drivers. They are great mind readers, understanding all those hand signals that are hard to interpret and hard to see, and the person who generally takes all the blame.

Grains seeing a corrective bounce but trading weather, export news and war headlines. Live cattle continue to correct. Crude oil pressured on geopolitical news. Darin Newsom, Barchart, has more.