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Meanwhile, cattle and hog futures surged to new contract highs this week.
As we close out the 2017 fiscal year and finalize our decisions, it’s time to get to work planning for success, survival or both in 2018.
Soybean futures were fueled by demand news.
Learn Angie Setzer’s commodity marketing philosophy, advice for selling your crops and the most underappreciated marketing tool.
The European Union rushed to promote its preliminary free-trade agreement with Japan by stressing the benefits for EU farmers, who stand to gain easier access to the lucrative, highly protected Japanese food and wine markets.
To meet the ballooning demand from China’s newly wealthy middle class for a greater variety of foods such as meat, fruit and vegetables, China needs bigger, more efficient and safer farms. But that poses a huge dilemma for the state: if it allows all these little plots to be consolidated, it could put millions of rural workers out of a job.
2016 was a year of bold predictions, with many “experts” predicting the wrong outcome. So, what did we learn and now can it be applied to 2017? Tommy Grisafi and Craig VanDyke discuss in Markets Now.
We occasionally get calls from farmers who follow one of the market advisers we report asking their results are so different. One answer lies in our methodology--how we treat basis, storage costs and the like (click on our Methodology button to review what we do).
The new Cash Grain Bids app from AgWeb allows users to check cash grain bids and base prices from their mobile device.
What were the biggest news events and market moves this year? Read over these posts from AgWeb.com bloggers to see.
Updated two times every trading day, Mark Gold of Top Third Ag Marketing offers up-to-the-minute analysis of the day’s market action and trends.
Marty Klinker, a farmer in Fairfield, Mont., shares how the MF Global bankruptcy has affected his business.
After falling almost a full dollar from November’s highs, corn, soybeans and wheat came back in Thanksgiving-week trading.
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Corn and soybean stocks are both up from this time last year, per USDA’s Sept. 29 Grain Stocks report.
After two years of weaker exports of farm goods, it is appearing as though 2017 will push higher.
Amazon’s Whole Foods Deal Wins Swift U.S. Antitrust Approval (1)
John Kavulich, president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, reports that a shipment of rice will travel from the port of Houston/Galveston to the Republic of Cuba - the first shipment of its kind in a decade.
The share farmers receive for farm commodity sales for domestically produced food fell in 2015, the last year such data is available. On average, farmers receive 15.6 cents on each dollar consumers spend on food, according to recent reporting from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).
Thousands of Kentucky farms involved in direct community sales.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the government can’t force raisin farmers to give up part of their annual crop for less than it’s worth, a victory for conservative groups that hailed the decision as a win for private property rights.
The May USDA reports have now come and gone. Dan Hueber thinks there is only one message to carry away, which, realistically, should not have been shocking.
The federal government has fined the Lynchburg Livestock Market $10,000 for improperly allowing its bank to use money from a custodial account.
A lot rests on whether or not we will sufficiently cut corn acres. Research firms go through this exercise every year to try to guess what we farmers will do.
Find out what the big news could be with Friday’s USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.
Farm cooperatives posted record sales and income in 2011, beating the previous record sales year of 2008 by $10 billion, according to USDA.