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Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 01.20.2025

• See the Inauguration Day schedule for Trump’s 2025 presidential swearing in
• Study Reports How Public Support Payments To Farmers
• Farm Futures Survey Reports 2025 Farmers’ Outlook
• AgWeb.com Poll Finds Where Farmers Are Cutting Back On Expenses
• Top 5 Things to Watch | Market Delay, Latest Cattle Numbers
• 2025 farm outlook: Planted in hope
• Weaker Tones Pressure Feeder Cattle and Lean Hog Markets
• Georgia Cattle Producer Sees Major Benefits, Few Downsides to Bale Grazing
• John Deere, CNH Release New Digital Maintenance Solutions; Deere Unveils New High-Speed Disks
• Here’s how corn futures hit a one-year high
• Why the John Deere 4430 Was So Important to Modern Agriculture
• Secretary of Ag Tom Vilsack’s Journey: What Comes After 12 Years at USDA?
• President-elect fills key leadership posts at USDA
• FTC Sues John Deere Over Right to Repair
• Washington Week Ahead: Trump takes charge; Senate Ag reviews Rollins
• Chairman “GT” Thompson Receives Nat’l Assn Of Wheat Growers’ "2024 Wheat Leader Of The Year" Award

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 01.17.2025

• Predicting 2025 wheat prices
• Treasury pick would protect ag from tariff spat by enforcing phase one deal
• USDA Releases 45Z Feedstock Details, Drops Bundling Requirement
• Where Do Farmers Plan to Cut Costs in 2025? Here Are the Results from the Latest AgWeb Poll
• Treasury Nominee Bessent Pledges to Press China on Ag Trade Commitments
• Trump EPA Nominee Zeldin Quizzed on RFS, WOTUS, Biden Electric Vehicle Mandate
• DTN Oil Update | Oil Futures Fell Easing Strong Gains
• How flash sales foretold the election (kind of)
• Will soybean prices crash from a clash of fundamentals?
• Senate announces Brooke Rollins confirmation hearing
• Organic farm feeds students in more ways than one
• Plant diversity benefits pollinators and soil health
• Farmers get economic assistance in CR – but barely
• Soybeans Close Down Nearly 24¢ | Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025
• Surging Corn Prices Trigger Spate of Sales From U.S. Farmers
• Trump picks Fordyce, Hoskins for USDA undersecretaries
• USDA Releases Final Federal Milk Marketing Order Rule, Dairy Industry Is Pleased
• Nat’l Assn Of Wheat Growers Elect Kentuckian Pat Clements As President And Other Officers
• Strong Agronomic Business Plans Lead To Strong Economics
• Deere & Company Responds To Complaint From The U.S. Federal Trade Commission
• USDA Publishes Interim Rule on Technical Guidelines For Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used As Biofuel Feedstocks

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 01.16.2025

• Grains End the Day Mixed | Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025
• Letting Tax Cuts Expire Would Trigger Ag Job Losses, Hurt Worker Pay, Report Says
• New USDA Climate-Smart Ag Rule Helps Clarify Path to 45Z Tax Credit for Biofuel Producers
• Livestock Groups Look to New Trump Administration With Cautious Optimism
• Treasury Secretary Nominee Promises to Sell North Dakota Farmland if Confirmed
• What grain marketing and college basketball have in common
• Accept this gift from USDA Ag Marketing IQ: The price of indecision can be costly for grain producers
• Ag trade outlook: Navigating uncertainty amid policy shifts
• USDA publishes interim rule for crops used as biofuel feedstocks
• Foreign Ownership of Ag Land Grew 1.6 Million Acres in 2023
• Rubio calls ag trade a major thorn in U.S.-Mexico relationship
• Nat’l Corn Growers Assn Reacts To USDA’s Rule Impacting Biofuel Tax Credit
• U Of Illinois Revise Corn And Soybean’s 2025 Budgets
• USDA: Almost 1/3 Of The Farm Share Of The Food Dollar Went To NonAgricultural Industries

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 01.15.2025

• Did climate change fuel the LA wildfires?
• USDA Sets Enrollment Periods for Commodity Programs
• Letting tax cuts expire would trigger ag job losses, hurt worker pay, report says
• WATT Lists The Top 10 U.S.-based Feed Companies
• John Deere Expands Self-Repair Solutions By Customers
• Cattle Producers Pleased By Withdrawal Of Anti-Free Market USDA Rule
• Small Family Farms Accounted For 86% Of U.S. Farms And Generated 17% Of The Value Of Production
• Retail Fertilizer Prices Start 2025 Mixed
• JBS USA Reaches $4 Million Settlement on Alleged Child Labor Law Violations
• AFBF: Foreign Ag Land Ownership in US Grows by 1.58 Million Acres From 2022 to 2023
• In the first outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth in nearly 40 years, United Kingdom, Mexico and South Korea has stopped the imports of meat.
• Science, ag sit at an important crossroad
• Learning from past land sales cycles
• Corn, Soy Rally Stalls as Farmers Sell Grain; Argentina Weather Eyed
• Nitrogen optimization program already helping farmers plan for ‘25

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 01.14.2025

• Soybeans Close Nearly 28¢ Higher | Monday, Jan. 13, 2025 Corn and wheat also end the day in the green.
• Biofuels Groups Criticize Partial 45Z Clean Fuels Guidance
• Is the January WASDE Report a Golden Opportunity to Market Corn?
• Roll the Dice and Then Watch Throughput, Boxed Beef Prices
• Ag Weather Forum | Another Big Cold Burst Following Strong Cold Front This Weekend
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Trump, Tariffs and USMCA | North American Trade on Edge as Trump Tariff Plans Risk USMCA Trade Gains
• Why US Clean Fuels Policy May Mean Even Higher Canola Oil Imports
• Grains continue to trade on hot WASDE data
• Can solar power-based irrigation tech improve efficiency?
• Cutler: Trump Could Strike a New Trade Deal With China
• 2025 Top Producer Award Finalists and Winners Announced
• Harvest was terrible, and my mental health suffered
• For The Year Canadian Tractor Sales Down 16%, Combine Sales Down 14%
• For The Year U.S. Tractor Sales Down 13%, Combines Down 24%
• Wrapping up the 2024 cotton crop

Crop Insurance & Ag News for CA & AZ Farmers & Producers: 01.13.2025

• WASDE Report (PDF) Jan. 10, 2025
• This Week in Agribusiness, Jan. 11, 2025
• USDA Secretary Short List: Where Will These Farmers, Politicians, and Agriculture Business Professionals Go Next?
• Markets Respond and Winter Weather Remains
• US Winter Wheat Acres Up 2.2%
• Top 5 Things to Watch
• USDA Cuts 2024 National Average Corn Yield by 3.8 BPA, Trims Production by 276 MB
• Legal Battle Over Beneficial Ownership Rule Intensifies as GOP States Defend Injunction
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• An Urban’s Rural View Blog: Could the Fed Be Through Cutting Rates?
• Treasury Department announces new clean fuel tax credit guidance
• When Will Over-the-Top Dicamba Be Available Again for Soybean Growers?
• Long awaited 45Z tax credit guidelines not very helpful
• For The Year U.S. Tractor Sales Down 13%, Combines Down 24%
• Nat’l Corn Growers Assn Disappointed With Lack Of Clarity Around 45Z
• New DVM Graduates’ Mean Starting Salary Is $137,000
• Corn, Soybean Prices Surge On Surprise WASDE Estimate
• Farm Futures Survey: Grain Acres May Shift In 2025