Ag News

06.25.19

• Crop Progress Report
• Weekly Grain Movement – Looking for silver linings
• Conditions deteriorate in fragile rural economy
• Farmers’ Working Capital Hits 10-Year Low, Economists Say
• Difficult Choices When Crop Insurance, Disaster Aid, and Trump’s Bailout Intersect
• China delayed some soybean purchases ahead of Trump-Xi meeting
• President Trump, Trudeau Make Another Push for USMCA Passage
• Supreme Court Rules SNAP Data Can Remain Private
• USDA: Expiring CRP Contracts Can Now Be Extended

06.24.2019

• Congressional Testimony Touts Benefits of Crop Insurance
• Calling Foul Ball on China
• USDA: May Cattle Marketing Down 3%
• Trump Looks to Jump-Start Trade Agenda in Japan
• Trump Confident USMCA Will Be Ratified
• Trump Says New Nafta Ends Competition With Canada and Mexico
• Persistent Adverse Conditions Disrupt Crop Production Outlook
• Farm Woes Raise Loan Defaults for One-Fourth of Bankers
• Ag Trade Balance Projected to Fall to $8 Billion in Fiscal 2019
• Area In U.S. In Drought At Historic Low
• Fed Cattle Market Bottom? Not Yet
• American Agri-Women Raise Key Issues With Washington, D.C., Lawmakers, Regulators
• Dr. Kim Anderson says June through August is the best time to sell wheat in Texas and Oklahoma

06.21.2019

• Congressional Testimony Touts Benefits of Crop Insurance
• Dr. Kim Anderson: Wheat Should Be Sold Before August 31
• 7 Ag Stories You Might Have Missed this Week
• Mexico Ratifies USMCA Trade Agreement
• Governors Urge Congress to Support Ag, Ratify USMCA
• Outside Markets Turn Friendly for Grains
• Alito Suggests Reining in Fed Agencies
• Trump – USMCA Vote Will Be ‘Very Bipartisan’
• President Trump Takes Action On Farmer RIN Waiver Concerns
• Autonomous Planting
• Presidential Candidates Called Upon to Aid Farmers
• Lighthizer Plans to Resume Talks with China
• Farm Woes Raise Loan Defaults for One-Fourth of Bankers
• Signing Ceremony Sets Terms of NBAF Transfer from Homeland Security to USDA
• Barry Evans gives 2019 crop update, harvests wheat

06.20.2019

• USDA to Move Up Date to Hay, Graze Prevent Plant Acres
• Duvall Says Farmers May Need Another Trade Aid Program
• Understanding NASS’s planting percentage
• 3 Big Things Today, June 20
• Fusarium Head Blight Taking Hold in Winter Wheat Fields
• Trade policies shifting to transactional partnerships
• Stable Agricultural Land Values Settle Farm Balance Sheets, For Now
• USTR to Democrats: Let’s make a deal on USMCA
• U.S. Trade Rep: Farmers Hit By Japanese Agreements with Others – DTN
• Ag Trade Balance Projected to Fall to $8 Billion in Fiscal 2019
• Taco Bell Refuses to Consider Using Fake Meat

06.19.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, June 19
• Climate Change Sows Seeds of Multi-Peril Crop Insurance Denials
• Federal Reserve: Observations on the Ag Economy- May 2019
• Senators Press for Trade Action | Trade Ambassador Says USMCA Talks Continue to Advance With Democrats
• Trade Optimism Sends US Stocks Higher
• Trump and Xi will talk trade at G-20 “extended meeting”
• Lighthizer testifies on USMCA details
• TFB on availability of dicamba for cotton farmers
• Slight Change to Peanut Supply Numbers
• USDA Releases "Cotton And Wool Outlook: June 2019" Report
• USDA Releases "Feed Outlook: June 2019" Report
• Prevent Plant for Corn and Soybeans, 2007-2018

06.18.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, June 18
• Trump’s $16 Billion Farm Bailout Criticized at the WTO
• Call the Vet! Rural Veterinary Medicine is Struggling
• One-Quarter of U.S. Soybean Crop Remains Unplanted, USDA Says
• Crop Progress Report June 17, 2019
• Is Trump’s Farm Support Wearing Thin
• Market Retreats to Mull Acreage
• USDA Releases "Season-Average Price Forecasts" Outlook Report
• USDA: Agricultural Exports Supported An Estimated 1.2 Million Full-Time Jobs In 2017
• Millions Of Corn, Soybean Acres Remain Unplanted
• Texas: Failed Cotton? Late-Planted Sorghum, Other Crops Offer Good Alternatives
• Despite Sour Ag Economy, Farmers Nat’l Co. Reports Land Sales Volume Up 29%
• Texas Growers With Failed Cotton Have Replant Options