Ag News

04.04.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, April 4
• Ag Barometer Drops Lower For March
• Battle Over Funds for Puerto Rico Remains Roadblock to Disaster Aid
• As Congress Hears About Ag Labor Issues, USDA Offers Tools to Navigate H-2A Program
• Winter Wheats Higher, Soybeans Lower in Quiet Trade
• DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends Fertilizer Prices Mostly Lower Now
• Trump Takes to Twitter to Warn ‘If No Action, Border . . . Will close’
• Trump: Security More Important Than Trade
• Farmers Expect to Win Sino-U.S. Trade War
• Farmland Values Are Stable Despite Income and Trade Turmoil
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Hearing on the Rural Economy
• Democrats Look to Farmers, Workers for Compromise on H-2A Reforms
• USDA sued for weakening school sodium, whole grain requirements
• Expert Discusses Tax Law Changes as Deadline Approaches
• USDA Launches New Farmers.gov Features to Help with H2A Applications, Managing Loans
• RaboResearch Report Details Risks Of U.S. Hemp Industry

04.03.2019

• Senate Fails to Pass Disaster Aid Bill
• Purdue/CME Group’s Ag Barometer Drifts Lower On Concerns About The Future
• Perdue Says Progress is Being Made in U.S. – China Trade Talks
• Disaster Bill Sidetracked in Senate in Fight Over Puerto Rico Aid
• Lenders Tell Lawmakers They’re Doing What They Can to Help Farmers Affected by Disasters
• Soybean Outlook – Can China Save the Soybean Market?
• Disaster Aid in Limbo
• 3 Big Things Today, April 3
• Disaster Aid Won’t Cover Crops Drowned by Midwest Floods
• Debt Level vs. Interest Rate
• House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture Hearing on the Rural Economy
• How Long Will Trump Keep U.S. Steel and Aluminum Tariffs in Place?
• Peanut Market Update

04.02.2019

• Morning Market Review
• 3 Big Things Today, April 2
• First Crop Progress Report of Season Shows Highest Winter Wheat Conditions in Three Years
• April 1: Crop Progress Report
• USDA: Farmers Will Plant 4% More Corn This Year
• China Books Fresh Deal for 828,000 Tonnes of U.S. Soybeans
• U.S. Soybean Exports to China Increased in February; Trade Negotiations Return to Washington, D.C.
• Farmers Are Assuming Plenty of Prevented Planting
• U.S. Crop Production Unlikely to Suffer Much From Floods
• Farm Groups Push for Year-Round E-15
• Closing the Border is Preposterous, But What If
• Ag Groups to Trump: Don’t Shut Down Trade With Mexico
• U.S. Wheat and Barley are Losing Japanese Market Share Fast
• Peanut Growers Challenged to Set, Stick to Yield Goal
• Interest Rates Headed Down as Fed Confronts Global Slowdown

04.01.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, April 1
• Washington Week Ahead: ‘Constructive’ China Talks Resume in DC
• Morning Market Review for April 1, 2019
• USDA Reports Send Grain Markets Plummeting
• Jerry Gulke: USDA Shock and Awe
• Both Sides in E15, Biofuel Credits Reform Debate Testify at EPA Hearing
• Grains Mixed After USDA Fallout
• Grain market week in review – March 29, 2019
• Washington Insider — Monday More US, Latin American Angst
• Warren, Klobuchar agree on breaking up Big Ag
• Farmers confront physical, emotional challenges
• 2019-2020 Farm Program: Decision, Fairness on Covered Commodities
• More Peanut Acres in 2019
• American Agri-Women Hosting 2019 Legislative Policy Meeting In Las Vegas

03.29.2019

• 3 Big Things Today, March 29
• 2019-2020 Farm Program Decision and Fairness across Covered Commodities
• Farmers Look to Build Upon 2018 Farm Bill Victories
• US Trade Negotiators Arrive in China for Talks
• Northey after flood tour: ‘Nothing will make these farmers whole’
• Analyst expects next round of USDA reports to be bearish
• California Jury Finds Bayer Liable for $80 Million in Second Glyphosate Trial
• USDA Reports Preview Brace for Some Bearish News
• Oil Futures Slip on Demand Concerns
• Buyer Beware on New Health Insurance Options
• Amazon Dips its Web Services Toe Into Agriculture
• Seven Ag Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
• Wheat Farmers, Researchers Hold Annual Fly-In
• Prospective Plantings: Swing To Secondary Crops?
• Peanut Growers Urged to Use Certified Seed

03.28.2019

• Weakness Prevails for Wednesday’s Ag Markets
• Renewed Push for the USMCA
• Agriculture Leads Bankruptcy Filings, Report Shows
• Senators Sponsor Bill Expanding Family Farm Protections
• Mixed Moves in Retail Fertilizer Prices
• ASA unhappy with Trump’s comments on tariffs
• Nat’l Corn Growers Assn Provides Comment On Farm Bill’s Trade Programs
• Corn and Fertilizer Prices: Correlation Doesn’t Mean Causation
• Trump Won’t Settle for Less Than an ‘Excellent Deal’ With China
• China Rejects Canadian Canola Shipment Over Pest Contamination
• Chinese researchers claim they are one step closer to African swine fever vaccine
• Tyson Foods Begins DNA Testing Beef to Prove Genetics
• California Jury Finds Bayer Liable for $80 Million in Second Glyphosate Trial
• Senators Launch Probe Into Conservation Easement Tax Fraud
• 2019 Salary Survey
• What’s Helping to Hold Up Land Values?
• Boswell defends ERS, NIFA moves to skeptical Dems