Corn
World-record corn growers David Hula and Randy Dowdy share three essential practices that don’t cost a dime but could take your final yield numbers this fall from just OK to great.
Working with Mother Nature may require adopting a new mindset, but for some farmers these four practices could be the ‘missing piece’ in having a sustainable, long-term weed management plan.
Tyler Schau of AgMarket says cattle futures make new highs for the move on higher cash and the report tailwind. Soybeans followed soybean oil which rallied as Treasury released 45Z guidance and that pulled up corn.
As herbicide resistance builds, Extension urges farmers to diversify control tactics and use as many tools as possible this season.
Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net says it was a money flow day as grains were influenced by the selloff in crude oil and the precious metal markets, plus the higher dollar.
Farmers are turning to crop rotation, sharp scouting, and diversified tactics — along with Bt — to keep the pest from taking a huge bite out of yield potential.
Ag market activity Friday and much of the week was dominated by money flow and spillover from outside markets like the metals, the energies, and the dollar. That’s according to Allison Thompson with The Money Farm.
Joe Kooima of Kooima Kooima Varilek says the cattle markets have gotten caught up in the outside market money flow but are also seeing some caution ahead of the USDA semi-annual cattle inventory report to be released Friday.
Alan Brugler, with A&N Economics Inc., says, “What we’re seeing right now is, I think, intentional — that is, to get a little weaker dollar and, of course, that does help a commodities in general.”
Grain markets were higher overnight and on the opening Thursday making multi-week highs and new highs for the move before failing. Ted Seifried with Zaner Ag Hedge says the asset reallocation in the outside markets spilled over into the ag markets.