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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will join Clinton Griffiths for a virtual live town-hall Sept. 2 at 2 p.m. CDT. Farmers and ranchers will ask about the most pressing issues and opportunities they face.
In a rare move by NASS, the agency announced on Wednesday a possible adjustment to the U.S. corn and soybean acreage picture could come a month earlier this year. AgriTalk’s Chip Flory called the notice “unusual.”
South Louisiana braces for a month without electricity and reliable water service in the wake of Hurricane Ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, as people faced suffocating heat, humidity.
According to USDA’s latest Crop Progress report, 60% of the U.S. corn crop is rated good to excellent, unchanged from last week. Illinois corn conditions continue to improve each week.
Hurricane Ida hammered southeast Louisiana, as the Category 4 storm came with 150 mph winds. And as the system moves across the U.S., meteorologist Mike Hoffman says some areas could experience significant rainfall.
The largest U.S. producer of glyphosate is offline due to the impacts of Hurricane Ida. Bayer confirmed its Luling, La., site was offline as of Monday. However, the duration of the pause in production is still unknown.
Hurricane Ida packed a punch of 150 mph winds this weekend, crippling grain shipping facilities in a key export area along the lower Mississippi River. Now it’s a question of how long export activity could be shuttered.
The National Weather Service shows isolated areas of Iowa saw more than 20 inches of rain during the month of August. But with much of the summer and month being dry for northeast Iowa, the change was a sudden switch.
The carbon market is poised for growth but farmers are still looking for reliable information, return on investment and assurances that they won’t be unfairly penalized or lose control over their operations.
Dryness over the next six months in Argentina is expected to reduce the size of the country’s two main cash crops, corn and soy, while complicating navigation of grain cargo ships on the Parana River, analysts said.