Ag News

09.22.2020

• It’s National Farm Safety and Health Week
• AskFSA Transitioning To Ask USDA
• USDA Seeks Public Comments On Recommendations For Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Rainfall Index Crop Insurance
• Politics of CCC Fund Flare Up GOP Demand CCC Fund Replenished as Democrats Describe a ‘Political Slush Fund’
• Crop Progress Report
• House stopgap bill doesn’t include farm aid
• Profit-taking drops Monday’s ag markets
• How agriculture adapts in the digital age
• Perdue says ‘no plans’ to use CCC funds to help oil refiners
• Perdue defends MFP payments after GAO report
• DTN Cotton Closing: Cotton Lower
• Groups Urge Congress to Address Ag Inspector Funding Shortfall
• Conaway Rebukes House Democrats For Blocking USDA Funding For Farmers

09.21.2020

• Washington Week Ahead: Court fight looms, as lawmakers seek to fund CCC
• New Aid Package Broadens Out for More Producers, Crops and Payment Options
• Anticipating Soybeans’ Next High
• Combines find their price floor
• Deputy Ag Secretary Censky to return to ASA
• EPA’s Wheeler announces interim approval of corn herbicide atrazine
• New Round of Farm Aid for COVID Losses Announced, and Causes Snag in Congressional Spending Bill September 20, 2020
• Jerry Gulke: How High is High Enough for Grain Prices?
• NAWG Applauds USDA’s Decision To Include All Classes Of Wheat Into CFAP
• Plant-Based Protein Food Companies Sue Oklahoma Over New Labeling Law
• Texas port of entry project to speed up produce imports

09.18.2020

• 3 Big Things Today, September 18, 2020
• Nebraska Ag News Headlines Rural Mainstreet Index Climbs for September
• U of Illinois Issues Report "Trade and COVID-19 Ad Hoc Payments by Commodity"
• President to Announce New Aid Package for Farmers as Spotlight on CCC Fund
• Would Trump use $300m from USDA for oil refiners?
• 7 ag stories you might have missed this week – Sept. 18, 2020
• When it comes to climate change, farmers must be storytellers
• $10 soybeans! How high can this market go?
• Trump to announce $13 billion in farm aid on Thursday
• Ag groups urge immediate funding of CCC
• Direct and indirect impacts to agriculture in post-COVID “new normal”
• Black Farmers’ Boycott Against John Deere Will Continue, NBFA President John Boyd Announces
• U.S. Farmers & Ranchers In Action Releases Report "Agriculture’s Role In Reaching UN Sustainability Goals"

09.17.2020

• USDA Announces Whole-Farm Revenue Protection Program Improvements
• CORRECTED Livestock Risk Protection for Feeder Cattle, Fed Cattle, and Swine Revisions Effective for the 2021 and Succeeding Crop Years
• Daybreak Sept 16: Farm groups: USDA short cash for farm payments
• What’s next for ethanol exports, refinery waivers?
• Brazil’s soy frontier to grow at fastest pace in four years
• Trump administration considering at least $300 million cash aid to refiners
• Corteva confident of Enlist Duo amid plaintiff appeal
• WTO rules against Trump China tariffs
• China: Corn Crop Impacted by Adverse Weather, as U.S. Wheat and Soybean Exports Increase
• The Biggest Threat to Farming is …Tesla?
• While wildfires burn, lawmakers struggle to find consensus
• US Ambassador Branstad to resign from China post
• Texas Field Reports: Grain Market Improves Amid Reduced Crop Estimate
• RMA Announces Whole-Farm Revenue Protection Changes
• Trade and COIVD-19 Ad Hoc Payments by Commodity

09.16.2020

• Farmers Business Network aims to make its offerings available to all farmers, with no annual fee
• Farm Show Corn Head, Equipment Demos Put Spotlight on Harvesting Down, Lodged Corn
• Cash Rents in 2020 and 2021 Projections
• WTO: U.S. tariffs violate international regulations Sep 15, 2020
• U.S. presidential candidate Biden rips Trump’s record on ethanol
• Selling $10 Beans Feels Great
• Profit Tracker: Margins Reflect Spring Feeder Cattle Prices
• USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
• 100,000 Restaurants Have Closed Six Months Into Pandemic
• American Agri-Women Support Affordable And Nutritious Food For Families
• Opening day for a virtual farm show

09.15.2020

• EPA Denies All Gap-Year RFS Waivers Trump Administration Rejects Retroactive Small-Refinery Exemption Requests
• Early 2021 Ag Events Canceled Stock Show, World Ag Expo Canceled Due to ‘Health and Safety Restrictions’
• Sept. 14, 2020 Crop Progress Report
• Soybeans top $10/bushel on Chinese demand, smaller U.S. crop
• Trump trade aid payments benefited large, Southern farms -watchdog report
• Executive Branch Highlights Ethanol in Waiver Denials and E15 Promise
• Evil Grain: The Wild Tale of History’s Biggest Crop Insurance Scam
• New Acosta Report Details How COVID-19 Is Reinventing How America Eats
• GAO Breaks Down MFP Payments | Democratic Senators Point to Payment Disparities for Southerners, Cotton Growers
• USDA Boss’s Home State Got Most Trade Aid Per Farmer, GAO Finds