Ag News

06.23.2021

• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Corn, soybeans close double-digits lower | Tuesday, June 22, 2021
• Ag Marketing IQ brought to you by Fertilizer costs squeeze 2022 profits
• Grain prices drop as risk of crop shortages rise, analyst says
• Carbon markets galore
• Grassley looking forward to Senate Ag Committee hearing on cattle markets
• Waterhemp not forming resistance to dicamba, glufosinate yet
• Chairman David Scott statement on lawsuit against black farmers, USDA
• U.S. Refiners Accumulate $1.6 Billion Shortfall in Biofuel Credits, as Biden Administration Weighs RFS Volume Cuts
• CME Group to initiate nature-based offsets futures
• Daybreak June 22: GOP senators demand justification for WOTUS action
• Key House Republican says he’s considering climate bill
• USDA Releases "Cotton And Wool Outlook" Report
• USDA Releases "Wheat Outlook" Report

06.22.2021

• 3 Big Things Today, June 22, 2021
• Loan-Debt Relief Tied Up in Court USDA Responds to Litigation Against Loan-Debt Relief for Minority Farmers and Ranchers
• Paid In Full? Biden, GOP Struggle Over Infrastructure Costs
• Crop Progress Report 06.21.2021 (PDF)
• What’s better: Predicting price, or protecting profit margin?
• Ag exports to China could continue to climb
• Food supply success in pandemic belies wasteful farm policies – OECD
• U.S. corn, soybean crop ratings down on week
• USDA underscores importance of agricultural R&D
• U.S. Refiners Accumulate $1.6 Billion Shortfall in Biofuel Credits, as Biden Administration Weighs RFS Volume Cuts
• DC Signal to Noise: A Perfect Storm in the Grain Markets
• CME Group to initiate nature-based offsets futures
• Wheat: Time to Give Spring Wheat Its Last Rites? – DTN 6-22
• Rural Mainstreet Index Remains In Solid Growth Territory
• USDA Releases "Feed Outlook" Report
• USDA Releases "Livestock, Dairy And Poultry Outlook" Report

06.21.2021

• Jerry Gulke: What Are These Markets Trying to Tell Us?
• Is Farming Collateral Damage in Latest Tax Proposal?
• New Interactive Map From Government Shows Where High Speed Internet Is Needed
• Remarkable Rescue: Five Farmers Save Father and 6-Year-Old Son After Falling 70 Feet into a Well
• Tax policy remains a top concern for farmers
• Good luck trading this volatile grain market, analyst says
• Seeking Bipartisan Farm Labor Solution Vilsack, Senators Commit to Passing Farm-Labor Immigration Bill
• Oklahoma’s Pot Boom Impact Oklahoma Has Seen a Marijuana Land Rush and Some Residents Push Back
• USDA increases incentives for CRP sign-ups
• USDA to implement up to $4 billion in pandemic aid through mid-August
• Waters of the U.S. announcement muddied in confusion
• China Makes Large U.S. Soy Purchase, While Granting Domestic Subsidies to Its Grain Farmers
• Ways to protect your systems from a hack
• Renewable Fuels Assn: Wells Fargo Crashes And Burns With New RINSs Analysis

06.18.2021

• USDA reminds producers to file crop acreage reports
• Vilsack reviving tougher organic animal welfare standards
• June Rural Mainstreet Index: Machinery Sales and Farmland Prices Soar
• Interactive map provides valuable insight into the digital divide across the U.S.
• Soybeans close $1.18 lower, corn ends limit down | Thursday, June 17, 2021
• View From the Cab Heat. Dads. Sand. Rain. Wind. Cows. Hope. Farm Week Full of Four-Letter Words
• Severe drought covers 40% of Iowa
• Budding farmer aims to normalize hemp
• USDA to implement up to $4 billion in pandemic aid through mid-August
• Three trends could shift what consumers put in their shopping carts
• USDA opens signup for CLEAR30, expands pilot nationwide
• Cargill’s Sanfeliu Sees “Mini-Supercycle” for Crop Markets, as China’s Pig Herd Expands
• Record-High Optimism Buoys Already Strong Farmland Prices
• DTN Grain Close: Markets See Panic Selling; China Talks Down Prices 6-17
• U.S. Grain Stocks-To-Use Ratios Have Declined Since 1960

06.17.2021

• Seeking Bi-Partisan Farm Labor Solution Vilsack, Senators Commit to Passing Farm-Labor Immigration Bill
• USDA increases incentives for CRP sign-ups
• 3 Big Things Today, June 17, 2021
• GRAINS-Corn drops over 2% on U.S. weather outlook; soy, wheat also down
• How four big companies control the U.S. beef industry
• FOCUS-Stung by pandemic and JBS cyberattack, U.S. ranchers build new beef plants
• Vilsack on steps needed following JBS cyberattack
• Republican Ag Committee leaders highlight study on tax changes
• Vilsack blasts farmers suing over minority debt relief
• Tax Changes Would Hit Ag Hard, Say Experts – DTN
• More Ag Pandemic Relief Details – DTN
• USDA Publishes Federal Register Notice for Public Input on Racial Justice and Equity
• Wheat Organizations Welcome End To U.S.-EU Aircraft Trade Dispute
• USDA Announces Additional Aid To Ag Producers And Businesses In Pandemic Assistance For Producers Initiative

06.16.2021

• 3 Big Things Today, June 16, 2021
• USDA Announces Additional Aid To Ag Producers And Businesses In Pandemic Assistance For Producers Initiative
• Republican Ag Committee Releases Study on Impact of Tax Code
• Overturning Current WOTUS Would Show ‘Lack of Common Sense,’ Grassley Says
• Farmers all over the map on pricing the crop
• USDA crop progress: Corn quality continues to erode
• How does the new PCCP program impact cost of production?
• USDA releases more pandemic aid
• US and EU declare new era of trade cooperation
• Ag to benefit from suspended tariffs under new EU & U.S. deal
• Vilsack pledges ‘significant’ increase in meat processing
• Amid DPR, EPA reviews, Walmart calls on produce suppliers to reduce pesticide use
• Russian Wheat Export Prices Down as Crop Outlook Improves
• U.S. defends minority farmer debt relief despite legal fight