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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.