Ag News

11.30.2021

• Crop Progress Report 11.29.2021 (PDF)
• 2021 U.S. corn, soybean harvests officially over
• Soybean, wheat prices finish double-digits lower | Monday, November 29, 2021
• Winter Wheat Conditions Steady in Final Crop Progress Report of 2021
• Negotiate your best land lease for 2022
• Factors impacting corn, soybean exports now
• Impressive cattle rally
• Waiver extended for Hours of Service rules
• Factors expected to drive the 2022 corn market
• Design your farm succession plan first, then gift farmland
• Plant breeding advances may spark annual corn and soybean yield increases
• USDA vaccination rate is lowest in federal government
• First dicamba-resistant waterhemp reported in Illinois
• Two proposals, two different solutions, no easy answer for cattle markets
• Cattle market legislation has a big hill to climb
• Fertilizer: Risk of “Spring Scramble” for Supplies
• COVID-19 Disruptions Causing Historic Economic Changes
• Opinion | How Much More Will The 2022 Crop Cost?
• Saving the planet by saving the soil: Can cover crops fulfill their promise?
• USDA Releases "Livestock, Dairy, And Poultry Outlook" Report

11.29.2021

• Wheat jumps 1%, new COVID-19 variant looms over market
• A Hint of Panic in the Wheat Market?
• USDA Begins Accepting Applications For $1.15 Billion In Loans And Grants For Rural Broadband Access
• Washington Week Ahead: Dems face spending stalemate, unfinished Biden agenda
• An electric tractor may be in your future
• How shorter crops could give farming a longer life
• Farmland Values Eclipse Records as Sellers Turn to Auctions
• Landwatch November 2021 Recent Farmland Sales
• Export Sales: Corn climbs to marketing-year high
• USDA invests in strengthening meat supply chain
• Nutrient efficiency is on deck in agriculture
• Russian wheat rises for sixth week in a row amid strong demand
• Two proposals, two different solutions, no easy answer for cattle markets
• Pesticide industry battling supply chain challenges, working to ensure 2022 availability
• Using genetics as a risk management tool
• From the Flames: A Lesson in Thanksgiving from a Man Who Survived a Raging Oklahoma Wildfire
• Rural Route Hero: USPS Mail Carrier Rescues Cattle Producer After Near-Death Tractor Accident
• Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show, Amarillo, Nov. 30-Dec. 1
• USDA Agriculture And Related Industries Provide 10.3% Of Employment
• Full Year: Deere & Co’s Sales Up 24%, Net Income Doubles–$6 Billion
• Deere & Co. Issues Outlook For 2022

11.24.2021

• Wheat market climbs to a double-digit finish | Tuesday, November 23, 2021
• UDSA Releases "Season Average Price Forecasts" Report
• Republicans Criticize Recent EPA Regs EPA Actions on Ag Pesticides Draw Rebuke from Republican Legislators
• DTN Ag Summit Offers Exclusive Insights | John Deere Economist to Discuss Global Agriculture Outlook at DTN Ag Summit
• Anti-livestock Tone at Climate Summit Triggers Concern Among U.S. Ranchers Group
• Oil Futures Rally on Expected OPEC Response to SPR Release
• Tester introduces bill to halt Brazilian beef imports
• USDA invests in strengthening meat supply chain
• Avoid these mistakes in setting up a farm board
• Giant pipeline in U.S. Midwest tests future of carbon capture
• Experts Report They Don’t Expect Fertilizer, Herbicide Prices To Fall This Spring – Here’s Why
• Farm Policy Facts: Report Highlights Issues, Challenges In The U.S. Beef Market

11.23.2021

• Wheat closes 23¢ higher | Monday, November 22, 2021
• Texas cattle raisers fight to protect water rights in Texas Supreme Court briefing
• Danger signs for 2023 farm bill in partisan rancor on Capitol Hill
• 11.22.2021 Crop Progress Report PDF
• Taxlink Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Cash Market Moves | Why All the Fuss Over the Lysine Shortage?
• Weekly Grain Movement – The pace slows down Nov 22, 2021
• 20 states ask Supreme Court to kill California’s Prop 12
• Farmers optimistic despite rising costs
• Happy days are here, again, for the ethanol industry
• Agriculture can be climate leader with ‘build back’ funding, says Vilsack
• Cattle groups disagree on new legislation that would reshape U.S. cattle markets
• USDA issuing $270M in pandemic assistance to poultry, livestock contract producers
• Inflation—This Year’s Uninvited Holiday Guest
• U.S. Looking to Suspend Brazilian Beef Imports
• Farm Policy Facts: Report Highlights Issues, Challenges In The U.S. Beef Market
• Cattle Groups Disagree On Legislation To Reshape U.S. Cattle Markets
• Republican Ag Committee Members Call On EPA To Rescind Chlorpyrifos Decision
• Wheat Outlook Report
• Oil Crops Outlook

11.22.2021

• USDA: Over The Next Decade, Crop Prices Are Projected To Decline, Livestock Prices Generally Rise
• In Partisan Divide, House Passes Build Back Better Agenda, Turning Attention to Senate
• Vilsack on House passage of President’s Build Back Better Act | President Biden’s Build Back Better bill will now go to the Senate for consideration
• “World Fertilizer Prices Continue to Soar,” as 2022 U.S. Acreage Considerations Underway
• Ag Policy Blog The Build Back Better Vote and Recent History
• An Urban’s Rural View A Hat Tip to Washington
• Carbon farming opportunities beckon farmers
• What led to the machinery shortage of 2021 and what to expect for 2022
• Biden BBB that passed House has mixed support in ag
• USDA issuing $270M in pandemic assistance to poultry, livestock contract producers
• Legislation to prioritize industrial hemp packaging for cannabis products
• Rural Bankers: Farmland Prices Rocket to Record Highs For 12 straight months
• Could Airlines Soon Be Fueled By Biofuels?
• Jerry Gulke: Will Thanksgiving Be the Pause that Refreshes?
• Why Ag Retailers Assn Supported Passage Of The Infrastructure Bill
• New Research Shows: 87% Of U.S. Agriculture Businesses Are Currently Using Artificial Intelligence
• USDA Announce Feed Outlook Report

11.19.2021

• 7 ag stories you might have missed this week
• Here’s What’s Actually Driving The Surge In Fuel Prices
• EPA again delays ethanol blending targets
• Corn, soybeans, wheat close lower | November 18, 2021
• USDA Spotlights Pandemic Aid to Contract Producers, But Senators Push for WHIP-Plus Payments
• Ag Policy Blog | Farm Bureau, USDA, GOP Senators Differ on Thanksgiving Meal Costs
• Month-long Deere strike comes to an end
• Biden administration repeals Trump’s water rule
• Commentary | EPA abandons sciences, and growers will pay the price
• EPA takes step toward a new WOTUS
• U.S. senator introduces bill to block Brazilian beef imports after ‘mad cow’ reports
• H2A seasonal visa program isn’t the fix for businesses struggling to hire employees
• China biggest weekly buyer of beef
• "Trade Policy and Priorities" topic of House Agriculture Committee hearing
• Beware of Cost Creep on Your Farm
• Deere Issues Statement On Agreement Ratification