Pro Farmer Analysis
USDA raised its beef production forecast for 2024, with higher expected steer and heifer slaughter more than offsetting reduced cow kills.
Chair Thompson criticized the Biden administration for imposing regulations he claims punish farmers and ranchers.
Cattle futures had a strong start to the week following Friday’s Cattle on Feed report. Monday’s trade took prices back to significant resistance levels, will they hold?
As the two leaders of the ProFarmer Crop Tour converge, the eastern route and western route tell two very different stories—Chip Flory and Brian Grete are watching the markets with new perspective on crop conditions.
Numerous barges have run aground on the lower Mississippi River and grain barge shipping rates are soaring to historic highs this week, Reuters reports, hampering already sluggish grain exports from the Gulf.
Roughly 25% of U.S. critical infrastructure is at risk of failure due to flooding. AgriTalk’s Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer put a magnifying glass on extreme weather, war, and other hot topics on The Hill.
Weekend rains across the Midwest were light, the Senate continues to work on the infrastructure bill and boxed beef values continued to surge on Friday...
Hot, dry weather will continue over the Midwest, Parana River levels are at long time lows and the Senate may or may not vote on the physical infrastructure bill later today...
Weekend rains were scattered over the Midwest as searing heat returns, Germany reports another case of ASF and economists say the economy expanded aggressively in the April to June period...
Cordonnier lowers U.S. corn and soybean yield forecasts, an energy company seeks damages over Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and China initiates pilot program to insure hogs...