Ag News

12.7.2020

• Farm Income: Better Market Prices Likely Not Enough to Offset Expected Subsidy Reductions
• Washington Week Ahead: Lawmakers eye deal on spending, COVID relief
• Competition Heats Up After Pandemic Affected Businesses
• Top Republican on Senate Agriculture Committee Points to Opportunities Ahead
• Cooped-up farm kids have had it with COVID-19
• Pandemic spawns starvation across the globe
• 2020: The lost year with a lot to gain
• Broadband blues
• USDA: Peanut Price Highlights12-4
• Weekly Cotton Market Review – USDA12-4
• Cleveland On Cotton: USDA’s December 10 Report – A Pivotal Point?12-4
• DTN Livestock Open: Growing COVID Cases Pressure Meat Market Outlook12-4
• Moving Grain: FMCSA Clarifies Ag Commodity Definition in Hours-of-Service Regulations
• U.S. Farmer Loan Demand Falls to Seven-Year Low
• After Healthcare Workers, Essential Meat And Poultry Workers High Priority For COVID Vaccine, Group Urges

12.04.2020

• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Scott Looks to be Next Chair of House Ag Committee
• USDA: Farm Sector Profits Forecast to Rise in 2020
• US, China feud over cotton ban
• Weekly Export Sales – Soybeans stumble again
• Peterson calls for mandating 50-million-acre CRP to address climate change
• Farmworkers Groups Sue on H-2A Rule | Department of Labor Rule Freezing Wages for Ag Workers Challenged
• Biden: Fast on broadband, slow on China
• Biden says he won’t immediately lift tariffs on China
• Three commodities to watch in December
• Congress sends grain standards bill to Trump
• Suicides in farm country
• Prevented-Planting Changes RMA Finalizes Policy Changes for 2021 Spring Crops, Expanding ‘1-in-4’ Rule Nationally

12.03.2020

• Crop insurance for climate practices gets attention, but is the science there?
• Grains and the Dollar: An Imperfect but Negative Relationship
• 2020 Farm Sector Income Forecast, December
• Farm Income Higher in 2020 | Led Mainly by Ad-Hoc Payments, Net Farm Income Forecast to Reach Highest Level Since 2013
• Thompson to join Scott in House Ag Committee leadership
• Decision-time: Regroup or retire?
• Wheat closed up 11¢ Wednesday
• Farmers growing skeptical of victory in Sino-U.S. trade war
• China drafts new law on grains reserves amid food security concerns
• World food price index jumps in Nov to almost 6-year high -FAO
• Farmworker advocates challenge H-2A pay freeze in court
• Corn export boom to China likely to soften by fall 2021
• Three commodities to watch in December
• Grain Reauthorization Act awaits Trump’s signature
• Proposed coronavirus relief package not likely to pass Senate
• USDA-ERS Predicts $119.6 Billion Net Farm Income For 2020 – The Highest Since 2013
• New group aims to advance Black policy professionals in food and ag
• Wheat Industry Welcomes Passage of Grain Standards Act
• USDA Announces Improvements to Prevented Planting Coverage

12.02.2020

• Scott picked as next House Ag leader
• Stronger Together: Farmers Count on Crop Insurance During Difficult Year
• Soybeans, corn close lower on first day of December
• What landowners should know about end-of-year gifting
• New Aid Package Pitched Bipartisan Group Offers Aid Plan, Insisting Congress Must Act to Ward Off Economic Crisis
• Kub’s Den Grains and the Dollar: An Imperfect but Negative Relationship
• Global Fertilizer Outlook – 1 Higher Commodity Prices Help While Nitrogen Projects Delayed Into 2021
• What has been the biggest challenge of 2020 on your farm?
• EPA late in setting ethanol mandate for 2021
• CropLife expects Biden science stance to apply to crop tools
• Deadline Approaching for USDA’s CFAP 2 Program

12.01.20

• Soybeans fall 23¢ on last trading day for November
• Chinese Buyers May Cancel U.S. Soybean Orders
• Final Syngenta Corn Payments Coming Syngenta Corn Claims Payments Coming to Mailboxes in Next Couple of Months
• USDA Expands Hemp Insurance
• News Release: USDA Announces Expansion, Other Improvements to Hemp Crop Insurance
• If you’re a grain farmer, be thankful for risk management tools
• U.S. fuel industry frazzled as Trump EPA misses 2021 biofuel volumes deadline
• Higher crop prices and coronavirus aid boost farm income
• Congress faces daunting to-do list during Lame Duck
• Farmers look to innovate their way to a smaller environmental footprint
• U Of Illinois, K-State Economists Issue Report "Changes In U.S. Grain Storage Capacity"
• USDA Releases "Outlook For U.S. Agricultural Trade" Report
• Washington Insiders Concerned About EPA Candidates’ Impact On Agriculture

11.30.2020

• Wheat’s Funny Behavior
• Mother Bin Keeps Combines Rolling | Giant Grain Wagon Hopes to Offer Harvest Efficiencies
• Union Endorses Fudge for Agriculture Secretary | Ag Policy Blog
• The Battle Over USDA and Its Direction Under Biden
• 7 ag stories you might have missed week ending – Nov. 27, 2020
• Live cattle futures trim as traders weigh weak exports
• So much is said about land distribution at death, but what about rental agreements?
• 5 ways digital agriculture tools helped farmers in 2020
• China Imports of U.S. Corn Next Year Could Hit 30 Million Tons
• Washington Week Ahead: Optimism builds around omnibus funding bill
• Deere Increases Forecast for Farm Machinery Sales