Ag News

05.23.2019

• USDA Urges Farmers to "Plant for the Market"
• Slowest Planting Progress on Record
• Bill Aims to Protect from GMO Lawsuits
• House GOP and Dems Split Over Urgency of USMCA Vote
• Urea Prices Spike 5% Higher Amid Transportation Trouble
• For High Value Farms, Labor Squeeze Gets Tighter
• Trade War Expands Government Role in Agriculture, Despite Decades of Free-Market Reforms
• Farmers in Plains Lean Heavily on Trump Tariff Payments
• Texas High Plains Cotton: Time to Scout for Thrips, Wireworms
• Trump Readies New Round of Aid to Farmers Hit by China Trade War
• USDA Issues Statement On Support For Farmers, Inaccurate Media Stories On Next Trade Aid Package

05.22.2019

• Trade Aid Details Leaked | USDA Says Aid Program Won’t Skew Planting Decisions
• USDA Calls Bloomberg Trade Aid Story “Inaccurate”
• U.S. Considers Paying $2 per Bushel for Soybeans to Help Farmers – Bloomberg
• 3 Big Things Today, May 22
• Some in Ag See Economic Opportunities in Climate-Change Mitigation
• USDA Meteorologist Reports This Is The Slowest Planting Progress Ever
• USDA Releases “Wheat Outlook: May 2019” Report
• Record Slow Planting Puts 2019 Crops at Risk
• Record Slow Planting Lifts Prices
• For High-Value Farms, Labor Squeeze Gets Tighter
• Sell This Corn Rally, or Wait, Analyst Says
• USMEF Applauds ‘Important Breakthroughs’ on Trade
• Statements on Farm Bill Conservation Programs
• The Role of Agricutlure in Climate Change
• Trade Mitigation to Disrupt Acreage Intentions?
• Texas Field Reports: Hay Supplies Tight, 2019 Season Off to Slow Start
• COTTON SPIN: A bad outcome for the wrong reason
• Cotton Markets Searching for Balance
• Cotton: Studies Find No Yield Benefit to Higher Plant Populations

05.21.2019

• UPDATE 1-China rebuffs Trump claim U.S. tariffs are making firms leave
• Design of Aid Package and Prevented Planting Become Intertwined
• History of New Crop Wheat Sales
• Crop Progress Report May 20, 2019 (PDF)
• USDA: Only Half Of The Corn Has Been Planted, 19% Of Soybeans
• U.S. Corn Planting Is Way Behind, USDA says
• Does It Really Take $4.5 Million to Be a Stock Cow Operator?
• China Says Foreign Investors Enthusiastic Despite Trump Claim
• USMEF Applauds ‘Important Breakthroughs’ On Trade
• A New Era of cattle Identification on the Horizon
• Eminent Domain Bill Reported Out of Committee
• IRS Removes Farm Income Averaging Guidance on QBI
• U.S. Organic Sales Reach Record $50 Billion in 2018
• Who Is Buying And Selling Farmland Today?
• Nat’l Cotton Council Thanks President For Steps To Advance USMCA Approval

05.20.2019

• Prevented Planting: Implications for New-Crop Market Prices
• Secretary Perdue Statement on the Removal of Section 232 Tariffs
• Welcome News on Trade, But Unresolved Issues Linger
• Washington Week Ahead: Farmers Await Trade Package, Disaster Aid
• Texas LRGV IPM: More Fleahoppers in Cotton; Sugarcane Aphids Take Off in Sorghum
• U.S. Will Lift Steel, Aluminum Tariffs On Canada and Mexico
• Wheat Outlook–Here’s the Number to Watch in Wheat Market
• Japan Opens Doors to Full Access of U.S. Beef Imports – USDA
• Japan Lifts Age Restriction on Beef
• Brazil Rides Wave of Soybean Sales to China as U.S. Trade War Rages
• Trump Says Deal With Mexico and Canada Cuts Tariffs
• Farmers Follow Trump Into Trade War
• USDA Enhances African Swine Fever Surveillance

05.17.2019

• Perdue: Trade Aid Could Reach $20B Ag Secretary – USDA Calculating ‘Legally Defensible’ Trade Damage Done to Producers
• Secretary Perdue Confirms New Trade Aid Details Aren’t Ready
• China’s Retaliation Could Move Beyond Tariffs
• Trump to Donate Q1 Salary to USDA
• Trump Declares National Emergency to Secure Communications Technology
• China Says Economic Impact of U.S. Trade Tensions Controllable
• Trump Declares National Emergency to Secure Communications Technologysions “Controllable”
• EU Cancels Duty on US Ethanol Imports
• Wheat Closes 18¢ Higher Thursday
• China Cancels U.S. Pork Import Order as U.S.-China Trade War Drags On
• House Ag Chairman Looking to Stop Continuous CRP Signup
• NFU Urges Congress to Halt ERS/NIFA Move
• NFU: Trade Assistance Must Help All Affected Farmers

05.16.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, May 16
• New Trump Aid Plan for U.S. Farmers to Rely on Direct Payments – Sources
• Trade War Hurting the U.S. Ethanol Industry ‘Badly’ -U.S. Grains Council
• Ag Sec’y Perdue Provides Update On China-U.S. Relations
• Trading Challenges Add to Boost in Corn
• Trump Displays Preference for Tariffs Over Deals
• Why Farm Bureau Likes EPA’s Revised Water Policies
• Farm Progress America, May 15, 2019
• Mnuchin: Deal on Steel and Aluminum Tariffs is ‘Close’
• USDA Reopens Continuous CRP Signup
• Angry Chairman Threatens to Shut Down Conservation Signup
• U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Deserve Better
• Stoic, Resourceful – And at Risk for Suicide
• GOP Works to Ease Blow From Trump’s Trade War
• U.S., China Trade Dispute Escalates, While Some Trade Aid Details Emerge
• Trump Declares National Emergency to Secure Communications Technology
• Texas Field Reports: Rainfall Amounts Double Statewide Average Since April 1