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Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
Get your day started with a brief rundown of key news.
COVID-19 outbreaks are increasing governments’ food-security concerns, and importers need U.S. corn and soybeans for the first time in a long time to meet demand.
China made its largest weekly U.S. beef purchases on record last week, followed by its biggest U.S. corn deals in almost a month this week, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released on Thursday.
Who slashes farmland acreage by three-quarters, jettisons a machinery fleet, and upends field practices, yet watches profits rise by 70 percent? Meet Del Ficke and a less-is-more farming approach.
The full financial impacts of 2019 flooding may not be known for months.
What should have been good news for the grain and oilseed markets ended up having the opposite effect as we ended the week down, sharply down some cases says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
North Dakota’s largest livestock group and its biggest corn organizations have launched efforts to help ranchers devastated by a summer of drought.
Wild weather in the Corn Belt in the beginning of the month flooded freshly planted fields and dumped inches of snow on Kansas wheat. Farmers were expecting to see a bump in prices, but failed to see any reaction in the markets.
Commodities dropped 40-60% in value the past few years. How much longer will the slide continue?
Grain futures were lower Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade.
“The bottom line is that we ended an era and started a new one,” said Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group in Chicago, speaking on Farm Journal Radio with Pam Fretwell. “We’ve ended 10 years of zero interest rates. ... That rodeo is over.”
Recent lower prices in corn could translate into fewer planted acres in 2015, potentially putting pressure on bids for beef cattle next year.
Corn stalks are a great forage to graze, but is supplementation needed?
Irrigation transformed this region known by early explorers as the Great American Desert into an oasis of sorts. In an area of limited rainfall and surface water availability, the Ogallala allowed farmers to grow corn, which attracted cattle feedlots, then meatpacking plants, ethanol plants and dairies. Now the nation’s largest freshwater aquifer is starting to run dry.
Corn should be a lot cheaper this fall, but will it be better than other alternative feed stuffs?
Rain in July makes things look more optimistic for wheat and stocker cattle operators, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.
Rain and cold temps are expected to keep many farmers out of the field this week.
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