Ag News

12.30.2020

• COVID stimulus likely to have short and longer-term affects on commodity prices
• Court Halts Pesticide Ag Worker Rule Restraining Order Issued Against EPA’s Worker Protection Safety Rule
• Trump Administration Updates Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Need for ag grads outpaces supply
• Soybeans tease the $13 per bushel level Tuesday
• New year, new marketing goals
• Corn and soybean end-users facing pressure in 2021
• Skip the Secrets: Your Farm’s Succession Plan Should be Shared
• U.S. Exports Wheat to China For Fifth Consecutive Week
• USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
• Peanut Stocks: Utilization Up 8%, 4.5Bln Pounds in Storage
• DTN Cotton Closing: Slightly Positive
• Cattle Market: Favorable Factors to Watch in 2021 – DTN
• Dicamba Settlement Claims Period Begins
• USDA Releases "Food Price Outlook" Report
• Red River Farm Network Lists Its Top 10 Stories In 2020
• USDA Releases "The COVID-19 Pandemic And Rural America" Report

12.29.2020

• That $900 billion stimulus package includes pork – lots of it
• $900K Can Mean $1.8M
• 13 Million Acres of Cotton in the Cards for 2021?
• What’s driving future corn demand?
• More beef eaten amid coronavirus pandemic
• The new COVID relief bill: what’s in it for USDA?
• AgWeb: Looking at 2020 Through the Lens of a Glass Half-Full
• Red River Farm Network Lists Its Top 10 Stories In 2020

12.28.2020

• Trump signs coronavirus relief, federal funding package
• USDA Issues Report Showing Food At Home Trends
• CoBank’s look ahead at the ag economy
• Trade Alliances Tested, Redrawn in 2020
• Farmland Price Transparency Surveys, Online Tools Help Shine Light on Ag Land Values
• Why commodity bulls are feeling festive this Holiday season
• China’s Nov soybean imports from U.S. surge on year after trade deal
• Using short-dated option contracts
• Biden transition team holds talks with biofuel groups
• Locking in future profit smart in uncertain waters
• Kansas’ Sen. Roberts exits Congress after a half century
• USDA : 2020: Destinations Of Ag Exports Have Shifted Over Last Quarter Century
• USDA Releases "Wheat Outlook" Report

Must See…NCGA Christmas Video

12.24.2020

MESSAGE FROM ALL OF US AT THE FOWLER AGENCY

• Trump Threatens COVID-19 Stimulus Veto
• Beginning Farmer & Rancher Benefits for Crop Insurance
• Final Syngenta Corn Payments Coming | Syngenta Corn Claims Payments Coming to Mailboxes in Next Couple of Months
• Dicamba’s 2020 Legal Tug-of-War to Continue in 2021
• Beaten and Battered but Still Resilient, Cattlemen Look to 2021 With Eagerness
• Incoming House Ag Committee Chairman highlights priorities
• Report: Nearly all US farms are still family farms
• “Pending” CFAP 3 Details
• Video: What’s in COVID-19 relief package No. 3 for you (If Passed)
• New CRP Enrollment Offers Opportunity for Grazing, Hay

12.23.2020

• Trump attacks COVID aid package
• Farmers have short window to sign up for ARC, PLC in 2021
• Congress Finalizes Aid Package | Congress Closes Out Year Approving $900 Billion Coronavirus Aid Bill
• Lawsuit would overturn EPA approval of dicamba | EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the five-year approval of dicamba for use on GE cotton and soybeans a week before the presidential election.
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Incoming Ranking Member Of House Ag Committee Lists His Priorities
• Feed Cost Projections 2021 | Not Much Good News for Feed Buyers Ahead
• How USDA’s January reports could impact your marketing decisions
• Ag groups praise $33B in farm-related pandemic relief aid
• Ag markets close higher Tuesday
• Ag groups praise $33B in farm-related pandemic relief aid
• Dicamba lawsuit will not impact 2021 XtendiMax use, say Bayer officials
• Russia to boost durum wheat output after Putin’s criticism of pasta prices
• An Overview of Some COVID Related Impacts on Rural America from USDA’s Economic Research Service
• Tyson Reports “Misappropriation” Of Funds By Beef Supplier
• EPA faces lawsuits over dicamba, glyphosate and pesticide exclusion zones
• Texas: Virtual Northeast Panhandle Crop Profitability Conference, Jan. 7