Ag News

• 3 Big Things Today, February 4
• Grains Weaker with China Closed, WASDE Looming
• Commodity Price Clues for 2019
• TAXLINK: Where Did My Deductions Go
• Bud Light Gets Earful From Corn Lobby After Super Bowl Ad
• Perdue Talks Trade Ag Secretary: Long Way to Go on Substantive Agreements With China
• U.S. Wheat Growers on Trade Mitigation Funds
• Cibus Launches New Canola Seed Brand Falco
• China Follows Through On Its Promise to Buy U.S. Soybeans
• Cattle Markets Begin February Higher
• Super Bowl Food Statistics for 2019
• Letter to the Editor: Farm Aid Responds

• 3 Big Things Today, February 1
• Optimism as a New Month Begins
• Trump Wants Big Trade Deal With China or Will ‘Postpone’ It
  
• U.S. and China Say they Make Progress in Trade Talks
• Lighthizer Reports ‘Substantial Progress’; Trump Says China Will Buy More Beans
• U.S. Soubeans Can Now be Used in Biofuels in the European Union
• Battle for Eminent Domain Fairness is Under Way
• FSA Employees Face Loan Processing Backlog
• Is The Cattle Herd Growing? Producers Give Their Take
• Preview Of Ag Sec’y Perdue’s Comments To Beef Producers, Can’t Stop Technology
• Nat’l Cattlemen’s Beef Assn Announces Its 2019 Policy Priorities

Starting with export data, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has not published a weekly Export Sales report since Dec. 20, 2018. FAS has resumed daily reporting of export sales and will implement the following schedule to bring weekly reporting up to date:

— The report for the week ending Dec. 20, 2018, will be published Thursday, Jan. 31.

— The report for the week ending Dec. 27, 2018, will be published Feb. 7.

— The report for the week ending Jan. 3, 2019, which will include the marketing-year changeover figures for hides and skins, wet blues, pork and beef, will be published Feb. 14.

Additional information about the Export Sales Reporting Program is available at :https://www.fas.usda.gov/programs/export-sales-reporting-program

• 3 Big Things Today, January 31
• Grains Mixed as Interest Rates Buoy, Export Sales Data Eyed
• Backlogged Weekly Export Sales, NASS Crop Report Dates Moved
• Ag Census Report Delayed Because of Shutdown
• U.S. Ethanol Exports Could Hit Record 4 Billion Gallons by 2020, Says Expert
• U.S. Soybeans Can Now Be Used In Biofuels in European Union
• Tariff Authority’ Legislation Introduced in the House
• DTN Releases Agronomic Insights App
• U.S. Wheat Exports Have Fallen Over The Last Decade, Market Share Dropping
• U.S., China Begin Two Days of Talks
• Breakevens, Cash Flow and Structuring Positions a Focus for Farmers in 2019
  

USDA’s Farm Service Agency extended deadlines on many of its programs because of the government shutdown and the emergency nature of many of the programs. Below are updated deadlines:

Market Facilitation Program
Deadline to apply extended to Feb. 14, 2019

Marketing Assistance Loans
If loan matured in December 2018, settlement date extended to Feb. 14, 2019

Peanut loans or Loan Deficiency Payments – loan availability date now Feb. 28, 2019

Emergency Conservation Program
Performance reporting due Feb. 14, 2019

Livestock Forage Disaster
2018 application for payment due Feb. 28, 2019

Emergency Assistance Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farm-raised Fish Program
Notice of loss due Feb. 14, 2019

Livestock Indemnity Program
Notice of loss due Feb. 14, 2019

Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program
Submitting 2019 application for coverage due Feb. 14, 2019

Notice of loss for 72-hour harvest and grazing (as applicable) due Feb. 14, 2019

Notice of loss for prevented planting and failed acres due Feb. 14, 2019

Applications for payment for 2018 covered losses due Feb. 14, 2019

Tree Assistance Program
Notice of loss due Feb. 14, 2019

For inquiries related to these programs or any not listed above, please contact your local USDA Service Center.

• USDA Working to Implement 2018 Farm Bill
• Burned by Last EPA Chief, Ethanol Industry Wants Assurances for E15, Small-Refinery Exemptions
• New to Crop Insurance? Here’s How it Works
• Trade War Entices Farmers to Switch Acres to Corn
• Chinese Negotiator Liu He Arrives in Washington for Talks
• 3 Big Things Today, January 30
• ‘Big Crops, Low Prices,’ for a Long Time Ahead, Says CBO
• Blue Dogs: Growth Gives Rural America Clout in New Congress
• U Of Illinois Research: Weather At Three Key Growth Stages Predicts Corn Yield, Grain Quality
• Often Cursed USDA Reports Have Been Missed