Ag News

04.14.2020

• 3 Big Things Today, April 14, 2020
• What We Know About USDA’s COVID-19 Aid Package
• USDA Unveils Tool to Help Rural Communities Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Analysts slash farm income forecast due to COVID-19
• Our View: Support America’s Farmers and Ranchers as They Feed America
• Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loan: Why aren’t farmers included?
• FAPRI Projects $20 Billion Net Decline in Farm Income for 2020
• First Corn Planting Report of Season Shows 3% of Crop Planted Nationwide
• April 13, 2020 Crop Progress Report
• 3 areas that matter most for economic recovery
• When the farm needs you to lead into the unknown
• Supply Concerns Hold Down Markets
• Ag Groups Urge Support for Proposal to Reduce Shipping Costs

04.13.2020

• COVID-19 Hits Some Domestic Ag Markets, Disrupts Global Supply, As Pres. Trump Highlights Aid to Farmers
• Trump plans to announce farm aid package this week
• Packing Plant Closures Increase as Industry Struggles With Positive Cases
• Farms Prepare for COVID-19, Contingency Planning Takes on New Urgency
• Farmers urged to be patient with new-crop pricing, analyst says Selling now would be a regrettable action, analyst says.
• U.S. corn, soybean, wheat ending stocks up on month
• Suderman: Strong dollar continues to hamper soybean sales to China
• USDA-FAS Reports Provide Updates on Ag Trade, Production, and COVID-19 Impacts
• Fed Cattle Trade ‘Soft’ As Cash Prices Decline Again
• USDA meat inspectors told to find or make their own masks
• Daybreak April 10: Ag hurt ‘very badly’ by COVID-19, Trump says
• National FFA Cancels Washington Leadership Conference
• Cleveland On Cotton: Market Moves Up, Despite Monumentally Bearish Report
• R-CALF Urges Perdue to Target Hardest Hit Farmers
• Ag Groups Urge Support for Proposal to Reduce Shipping Costs

04.10.2020

• Smaller pot of money for coronavirus relief, says Perdue
• Trump: Money going to farmers ‘in the pretty near future’
• USDA extends marketing assistance loans to full year
• 3 Big Things Today, April 10, 2020
• As Farms Prepare For COVID-19, Contingency Planning Takes on New Urgency
• April 9 WASDE Report PDF
• USDA Working on Aid Package | Industry Requests for Support Overwhelm Funds Provided to USDA
• Farmers urged to be patient with new-crop pricing, analyst says
• USDA-FAS Reports Provide Updates on Ag Trade, Production, and COVID-19 Impacts
• John Deere Making Face Shields for Healthcare Workers
• National FFA Cancels Washington Leadership Conference

04.09.2020

• 3 Big Things Today, April 9, 2020
• Perdue: USDA hurrying to distribute farm aid
• USDA to probe COVID-19 impact on beef prices
• WTO sees “ugly" trade plunge worse than in financial crisis
• USDA Reports Preview April WASDE Braces for Demand Reductions
• Taxlink The Overly Complicated Self-Rental and 199A
• Kub’s Den | Energy Markets Spooked By ‘Overpriced’ Corn
• Ethanol Blog | Refining Interests Consider Appeal to SCOTUS on Small-Refinery Exemptions
• 3 lessons for grain marketing in volatile times
• Brazil and Argentina Clobbered by Drought
• Court rejects refiners’ request for rehearing on SRE ruling
• NCBA Requests President Trump Expand USDA Market Investigation, Examine Futures Markets

04.08.2020

• Texas: Unique COVID-19 Social-Distancing Message for Farmers
• Planting Gets Underway as Farmers Adjust to State and Regional Lockdowns
• Rural COVID-19 cases growing faster than urban
• Treasury Seeks More Funds; Ag Supporters Want Access to Another SBA Program
• POET Idles Three Plants, Delays Startup POET Puts on Ice About 330 Million Gallons of Annual Ethanol Production
• EPA Must Still Decide How to Apply Court Ruling on RFS Waivers Case
• USDA weighs in on pandemic impact
• Will ethanol wreck corn’s 97-million-acre potential?
• Milk dumping is a coronavirus reality
• 7 ways to slice COVID-19 risk during planting
• The Daily COVID-19 Rundown
• Produce industry seeks $5B in compensation for pandemic impact
• Farmer Sentiment Plummets as COVID-19 Pandemic Hits
• Senators Call on USDA for More Funds to Biofuel Industry
• NASS to Re-Survey Farmers with Previously Unharvested Crops
• Cattle Producers Find Alternative Ways to Buy Bulls
• Crop and Livestock Prices Plunge Under Weight of COVID-19 Uncertainty
• Revision of 2020 Crop Budgets with COVID-19 Induced Lower Corn and Soybean Prices

04.07.2020

• 3 Big Things Today, April 7, 2020
• Risk management – or disaster management
• Texas: Unique COVID-19 Social-Distancing Message for Farmers
• USDA: Texas Crop Report Released April 6, 2020
• Crop Progress Report April 6, 2020
• Coronavirus Hits Packing Plants Two Iowa Plants Suspend Operations as Packing Industry Sees More Positive COVID-19 Cases
• 3 of 4 US Hospitals Facing COVID-19
• First Crop Progress Report of Season Shows Winter Wheat Conditions Above Last Year
• Farmers Who Sell Directly to Consumers Face Uncertainty, But Some See Higher Demand
• Economist: Farmers must act now to participate in SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program
• CARES act offers quick loans to keep farms afloat
• Fertilizer prices fall to lowest levels in a decade, economist says
• Record-breaking prices given for premium iron
• Can WASDE Numbers Revive Markets This Time?
• FDA Relaxes Some Inspection Rules During COVID-19
• A Historic Jump in the Money Anxiety Index Resembling September 11, 2001