Ag News

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

05.15.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, May 15
• Manage Risk: 5 Grain Marketing Tips for 2019
• New Ag Trade Aid Package in Days, Not Weeks
• Trump Says U.S.-China Trade Talks Have Not Collapsed
• China Says Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1
• Grains – Corn at 7-Week High, Planting Delays, Soybeans Extend Rally
• Senator Lobbying White House for Trade Aid for Farmers Affected by China Tariffs
• Grain Rally Continues Early Wednesday
• What is a Cut-Off Date?
• Literal Cost of the Trade War
• Agriculture Waits for Crucial USMCA Vote
• JP Morgan Calls U.S. Ag Fundamentals “Rapidly Deteriorating”
• Texas Field Reports: Rainfall Amounts Double Statewide Average Since April 1
• EPA Proposal Would Raise Biofuel Mandate in 2020
• Roberts, Stabenow Annou
  

05.14.2019

• Trump Says U.S. Farmers to Get $15 Billion in Aid Amid China Trade Spat
• Trump to Meet Xi After Defiant China Slaps U.S. with New Tariffs
• Perdue: U.S. Wants China to Be a Customer
• Roberts: Time is Now for Deal with China
• Wanted: U.S. China Trade Deal, Deadline: June 1
• 3 Big Things Today, May 14
• USDA Weekly Crop Progress US Farmers Fall Further Behind in Race to Plant
• Prevented-Planting Decisions Farms Underwater Won’t Have a Choice, but Prevented Planting Not an Easy Decision
• Planting Delayed? Here Are Your Prevent Plant Options
• May 13, 2019 Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• Weekly Grain Movement – Wheat carves out a marketing-year high
• Jury awards $2 billion in third Roundup trial
• Soybeans Prices Break Hard Monday, Hit 10-Year Low
• Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys- 2019 First Quarter Farm Economy Conditions
• Amazon, Walmart? Farming’s Wild Scramble For Online Ag Retail
• Texas Wheat: Bacterial Streak and Black Chaff
• Farmland Cash Rents Again Mostly Steady in 2019

05.13.2019

• Washington Week Ahead: Trump Pushing Lawmakers to Reach Aid Deal
• All Eyes on Monday’s Crop Progress Report
• U.S. Planning to Support Farmers Amid China Trade Spat -Agriculture Secretary
• USDA Estimates More Corn, Soybean Supplies Than Previous Forecast
• Trump Says Government Will Help Farmers; Analyst Responds
• Leading Ag Commodities Oppose Additional Tariffs
• Soybean Ending Stocks and 2019
• Trump Says China Tariffs Help, Not Hurt the U.S.
• U.S. Wants China to Be a Customer, Not to Retaliate, Perdue Says
• Traders Turn Focus to Crop Progress Report & Weather Maps
• Jerry Gulke: Government Intervention Back In Vogue
  
• Texas LRGV Crops: Some Cotton Near Bloom, Keep an Eye on Resistance
• Texas Mid-Coast Cotton: 3 Early Season Pests – Thrips, Fleahoppers, Aphids
• Oklahoma: ‘Best Looking Cotton Is Still in the Bag.’

05.10.2019

• U.S. & China Trade Talks Resume Friday
• 3 Big Things Today, May 10
• Struggling Ag Economy Creates Ripple Effects
• Soybeans Hover Near Decade Low Ahead of Trade Talks
• WRAPUP 5-U.S. escalates trade war amid negotiations, China says will hit back
• Trump Says He Got Letter From Xi, Leaders May Speak by Phone
• Washington Insider — Friday U.S.-China Trade Talks the Main Focus
• Farm Income Continues to Slide
• House Agriculture Subcommittee Hearing: “Reviewing the State of the Farm Economy”
• Pence: Trump Considering More Trade Aid
• ERS Employee Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize
• Late Planting and Projections of 2019 U.S. Corn and Soybean Acreage
• Texas Peanuts: Herbicide Options for Early Weed Control

05.09.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, May 9
• A Lot on the Line as China Negotiations Near Possible Tipping Point
• USDA’s Early Glimpse of a New Season
• Most Fertilizer Prices Move Lower for Second Week in a Row
• California Moves to Ban Chlorpyrifos | Action Comes as EPA Faces July Deadline to Consider Objections
• White House Says China Has Indicated It Wants to Make Trade Deal
• Farmer Sentiment Darkens as China Hopes Fade
• Grains Weaker as Forecast Improves and Tariffs Are Readied
• Turning Pivots Into Autonomous Crop Growing Machine
• China Warns It Will Retaliate if Trump Follows Through on Tariff Threat
• Congress to EPA: Stop Undercutting Farmers with Unjust Big Oil Exemptions
• CME Group’s Ag Economy Barometer Plummets in April
• As Farm Bankruptcies Climb, Ag Bankers Take Action
• Group Calls For A New Agency To Be Formed At USDA To Regulate Ag Industry Consolidation
• WTO Dispute Panel Report on China’s Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) for Certain Agricultural Products