Corn
The country has rejected over 1.2 million tons of U.S. corn cargoes since last year because they contain MIR 162.
With the holiday trading season soon to begin, it’s probably time for farmers to sit tight in terms of grain selling until the new year begins.
Don’t wait too long to book fall fertilizer needs, experts say, because good deals won’t last.
The bank cut its estimate for corn to $3.90 a bushel in 2014-2015 from $4.35 in October and for soybeans to $9 a bushel from $10.10.
Corn fell from the highest price since August as demand dropped for shipments from the U.S. and an industry group raised its global production forecast.
More production creates storage shortage, which widens basis and causes $1.73 corn
A nearly extinct corn crop of the Pawnee Nation has sprouted once again thanks to a gardener’s work in south-central Nebraska.
The corn has grown to only half its normal height on Yan Shuqin’s ranch in the hills of Inner Mongolia this year, as a swath of northern China suffers its worst drought in 60 years.
Money managers are bearish on copper, sugar, soybeans and wheat, and are holding the smallest net-bullish wager on gold since January.
In March, Wayne County firefighters rescued a man trapped in a grain bin on a farm south of Centerville, thanks in part to Purdue Extension training.