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Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.20.2025

• USDA’s NASS Reinstates July Cattle, County Estimates Reports That Were Cut Due to Budget
• It’s National Ag Week. Let’s Give Farmers What They Want: A Strong, New Farm Bill
• Agricultural Trade Prospects Under Pressure Amid Tariff Uncertainty
• Federal Judge Rules Evidence Sufficient for ADM Securities Fraud Case to Continue
• Corn survives grain selloff
• Brazil’s ethanol industry faces tough choice as Trump’s tariffs loom
• Trump, courts put check on new NEPA rule
• Women in ag conference empowers students with career opportunities
• Egg Prices Have Soared, but Federal Controls Kept Milk Prices Steady — at Farmers’ Expense
• Pipeline Opponents in Iowa Push for a Ban on Eminent Domain for Carbon Pipelines
• State-Sanctioned Trespass? Ranchers Defend Property and Water Rights
• Goodbye, La Niña? Eric Snodgrass Dissects What the Shift Means for Weather This Spring and Summer
• Could a ‘big, beautiful’ budget measure be Plan B for farm bill?
• Fertilizer Tariffs May Threaten Shift to Higher Corn Acres
• Iowa State Releases Its 2025 Custom Machine Rate Survey Results
• Farmers Caught In Crossfire Of Chinese Ship Fee Fight
• USDA Releases Season Average Price Forecasts Report
• USDA Releases Feed Outlook Report

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.19.2025

• BREAKING: Here’s How Much You Can Receive Per Acre From $10 Billion USDA Payment
• How Does Cutting Local Food Programs Help Make America Healthy Again?
• ECAP Payments: What You Need to Know USDA Details $10 Billion Economic Aid Payments for Commodity Producers
• First $10 billion in ECAP funding starts Wednesday
• House Ag Chairman Thompson Praises USDA’s Swift Disbursement Of Economic Assistance
• FSIS to Allow Faster Pork and Poultry Line Speeds, Drawing Industry Praise and Union Criticism
• Trump Administration Launches Second Public-Comment Period on Monarch Butterfly Listing
• NCIS Podcast Highlights Sales Closing Date with Top Crop Insurance Agent
• Michael Jordan – GOAT, or the worst ever? Afternoon market analysis: Building narratives matters in sports, grain marketing and most everything else.
• How to capitalize on biofuels growth | The biofuels market is set to continue upward, bringing the benefits to your farm.
• Don’t pull trigger on corn aphid control too soon
• Legislation Looks to Limit Crop Protection Lawsuits
• Iowa Senate Advances Bill to Strengthen Rules Against Drones Over Farmland
• 100+ USDA Offices Face Lease Termination from DOGE
• John Deere Introduces New Planter Technologies To Maximize Efficiency
• John Deere Releases Sprayer Updates To Maximize Yields And Minimize Costs
• USDA Releases Wheat Outlook Report
• USDA Releases Cotton And Wool Outlook Report
• New Report Shows Ag Added $9.5 Trillion To The U.S. Economy

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.18.2025

• How Does Cutting Local Food Programs Help Make America Healthy Again?
• USTR Proposed Fees on Chinese Ships Will Harm US Maritime, Ag Industries
• USDA Faces 111 Office Leases Canceled as DOGE Touts Savings
• The Power of a Prevailing Cash Cattle Market
• Traders Pushed Livestock Contracts Higher Monday Afternoon
• The five percenter management mindset
• Bird flu’s impact on egg, milk markets varies
• Corporate Transparency Act: Is law on its last leg?
• KC Wheat Closes Up Nearly 20¢ | Monday, March 17, 2025
• Farming in the Crossfire: U.S. Agriculture and Retaliatory Tariffs
• Get A Marketing Edge With the Kluis/Successful Farming Planting Intensions Survey
• Boozman: conservation funding could be repurposed
• USDA takes more comments on HPAI indemnity payment rule
• Nebraska Gov. Pillen on USDA’s HPAI plan
• USTR ag official: U.S. exploring alternative trade deals for faster progress
• Nat’l Pork Producers Council Details Barriers To U.S. Exports
• USDA Assists Farmers, Ranchers And Communities Affected By Weekend Windstorms
• Ag Sec’y Rollins Takes Action To Streamline U.S. Pork And Poultry Processing
• USDA Releases Cotton And Wool Outlook Report
• USDA Releases Oil Crops Outlook Report
• Why Alliance For Food & Farming Continues To Stand Up To The “Dirty Dozen” List
• When Ag Sec’y Rollins Says Ag Economy Is In "Dire" Straits, Here’s What That Means

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.17.2025

• Top 5 Things to Watch This Week: Celebrate National Ag Day
• When Ag Sec’y Rollins Says Ag Economy Is In "Dire" Straits, Here’s What That Means
• Senate avoids shutdown, as divided Democrats help pass FY25 funding bill
• Frozen USDA funding forces furloughs, program cuts | Money that farmers counted on to move farm projects forward has dried up.
• This Week in Agribusiness, March 15, 2025
• Feedlot Managers Continue to Hold Out for Higher Fed Cattle Prices
• Wheat Reverses in Overall Subdued Friday Trade For Grains
• USDA Faces 111 Office Leases Canceled as DOGE Touts Savings
• EPA Chief Slashes Agency Regulations | Revisiting Climate Ruling, EPA Moves Aggressively to Roll Back Biden-Era Emission Rules
• Trump’s Foreign Policy Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
• The real story behind Canada’s 250% dairy tariffs
• My doctor hates large corporate farms | More than Dirt: What can the average family farmer do to bring the public greater clarity about the 96% who are growing food, fiber and fuel and this country?
• Beer sales rise by 174% on St. Patrick’s Day. Find out how your brew is made.
• U.S. soybean cargoes sail to China despite retaliatory tariff
• Farmers Caught in Multimillion-Dollar Machinery Loan Nightmare
• A Reality Look At The Plant-Based Meat Market
• Bayer Meets Adjusted Guidance And Takes Decisive Action To Tackle Challenges

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.14.2025

• Federal Judge Orders USDA to Reinstate Probationary Employees
• USDA Backs off on Vaccines for HPAI
• The Latest On Fertilizer Prices
• U.S. Cattle Producers Hail New Waters Of The U.S. Guidance
• Highlights Of Crop Insurers’ 2024 Results, 543 Million Acres Covered
• ‘Cheap’ Continues To Be the Great Equalizer in a Trade War
• A Look Back at 2025 Commodity Classic Few New Machines But Wide Array of New Technologies at 2025 Commodity Classic
• Deere Must Provide Trade Group Comms Court Orders Deere to Disclose Trade Group Communications to Farmers in Repair Case
• Wheat Yield Contest Open for 2025 National Wheat Yield Contest Expands Digital Yield Category for 2025
• Export Report: Wheat posts eye-opening sales | Corn and soybeans found rangebound results last week.
• Drones a popular farm tool for next generation
• Brazil Will not Retaliate Against U.S. Steel Tariffs Immediately, Mulls All
• Trump Administration to Roll Back Many EPA Regulations, Revisit Contested Water Rule
• What Will MAHA Mean for Farmers and Ranchers?
• State Legislatures Weigh Bills to Limit Pesticide Litigation
• USDA Backs off on Vaccines for HPAI
  Crop Insurers Release 2024 Results as 2025 Sales Closing Date Nears
• Thompson: Optimistic about a farm bill in 2025

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 03.13.2025

• Crop Insurers Release 2024 Results as 2025 Sales Closing Date Nears
• Thompson: Optimistic about a farm bill in 2025
• Zeldin pledges fast action on new WOTUS revisions
• Grocery bills flat despite higher egg, beef prices
• Lawmakers eye CCC cash flow to allow uninterrupted payment
• Bearish sentiment sinks corn, soybeans
• Canada May Hit U.S. Ethanol With Retaliatory Tariffs
• USDA Says It Will Reinstate Fired Probationary Workers by Wednesday Deadline
• EPA Chief Slashes Agency Regulations Revisiting Climate Ruling, EPA Moves Aggressively to Roll Back Biden-Era Emission Rules
• European Union Responds With Tariffs on Soybeans, Other Ag Exports
• Trump Administration to Rewrite WOTUS |
  EPA to Rewrite WOTUS Rule Again, Seeking to Follow Supreme Court Sackett Ruling
• Report Examines Impact of New Tariffs Yeutter Institute Report: New Trump Tariffs Likely to Have Broader Effect on Ag Than 2018 Trade War
• Deere Offers New Autonomous Upgrades | John Deere’s Next-Generation Perception System Brings Autonomy to Tillage
• Farm Progress America, March 13, 2025 | Mike Pearson takes a look at how meat exports adds value to the corn and soybean farms in the United States.
• The ag economy and the ‘hairdresser test’ Watch what the markets are doing and ignore media hype when it comes to planning your financial future, economist says.
• New Level Of Precision Agriculture Thanks To Renewed Partnership Between Syngenta And Planet Labs
• Highlights Of Crop Insurers’ 2024 Results, 543 Million Acres Covered
• USDA Issues Report: Precision Agriculture Use Increases With Farm Size And Varies Widely By Technology