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Clinton Griffiths

As the anchor and host of AgDay TV, Clinton Griffiths is one of the most recognized voices in American agriculture. With a career spanning over two decades in agricultural broadcasting and journalism, Clinton serves as a primary source of news, markets, and weather for producers across the country.

In addition to his broadcast work, Clinton is a key editorial voice for Farm Journal and AgWeb, providing the context farmers need to manage risk and find opportunity.

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Livestock producers are still adding up the totals when it comes to losses they suffered in last month’s flooding but one analyst expects the losses won’t likely curb cattle herd expansion.
The arctic blast will cost Texas ag producers hundreds of millions of dollars. Early estimates show the citrus crop sustained at least $300 million in damage and milk producers have dumped thousands of pounds of milk.
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As snow, ice and frigid temperatures hit the middle of the country, the biggest concern right now is the long tail this cold weather could have on livestock, AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths reports.
Indiana farmer survives 12 days of fever, pneumonia, and dehydration due to COVID-19 and he warns others that the fragile and frail aren’t the only people at risk.
Following two days of falling cattle futures prices, Joe Vaclavik, president of Standard Grain, is calling the market moves a knee-jerk reaction to the latest Cattle on Feed report from the USDA.
Whether it’s loaded and driven, or rolls out by rail, U.S. grains are pouring out of our country and heading for end users in Mexico. “We use raw material [such as] corn, sorghum, wheat and fiber-like cotton seed hulls to make feed for livestock,” said Ricardo Elizondo, owner of Forrajera Elizondo, a family-run feed mill in Monterrey, Mexico. This family-run feed mill said the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) helped make that grain, and in turn their feed competitive. Today, they’re bagging or selling roughly 50 million metric tons of corn and sorghum every year. They’d like to buy more.
Cattle markets finding strong fundamental reasons to remain positive despite the threat of disruption from trade negotiations.