USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and the White House are not on board with radical livestock marketing reforms proposed by Midwest US lawmakers, based on recent Congressional testimony. Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra reminded Vilsack of a […]
September precipitation was once again below average in the Missouri River Basin as drought plagues much of the western half of the nation. September runoff in the Missouri River Basin above Sioux City, Iowa, was […]
Two Iowa State University researchers will join a five-year project that seeks to make Midwestern agriculture more resilient by moving away from the dominant corn-soybean rotation. The $10 million project is funded by the USDA […]
The USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service released its Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate reports this week. Joe Vaclavik, President of Standard Grain in Tennessee, says it wasn’t a big surprise that […]
USDA released the October WASDE report at 11am CST this morning and it contained a few numbers of note, but mostly was within pre-report expectations. Below is commentary with Arlan Suderman of StoneX on the […]
Mike Zuzolo, President of Global Commodity Analytics in Kansas, took a look into the U.S. crop harvest reports and says things are a bit unusual in 2021. The biggest thing he noticed is a lot […]
We saw new highs in Minneapolis wheat, Paris wheat and oats were limit higher as the small grains surge continues. All but Chicago and Kansas City wheat finished firmer. Minneapolis December wheat, which scored a […]
Hay and forage producers in the Midwest are sending more hay west this year to drought-stricken states. Barb Baier, Nebraska Alfalfa Marketing Association Executive Director, says a lot of hay is moving west. “There’s a […]
A pullback in energy prices from Tuesday’s new highs led to a pullback in the soybean, soybean oil and corn market on Wednesday. December corn closed down 5 1/4 cents and November soybeans were down […]
Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley fears the Biden Administration is “throwing in the towel” on a China Phase 2 deal, after a speech by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai. Grassley cites Tai’s comments that China […]
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