Ag News

• Farmers Urge Congress to Back Crop Insurance in New Video
• USDA Celebrates World Trade Month
• Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Slips in April Report
• Court to Use USDA Acreage Data to Determine Individual Payouts in Syngenta Settlement
• Chinese Buyers Have Shied Away From US Soybeans
• Smithfield Loses $50 Million Lawsuit–Why didn’t lawyers use North Carolina’s Right-to-farm statute?
• What the $50 Million Swine Nuisance Verdict Could Mean for Midwestern Producers
• Wheat Futures Jump on Reports of Slow Kansas Growth
• ‘Next Generation in Agriculture Act’ Would Address Top Challenges for Young Farmers
• Grassley decries EPA ‘bailing out billionaires’ with RFS waivers
• U.S.T.R. Hoping for NAFTA Renegotiation This Month
• Can NAFTA Deal Be Reached By Week’s End?
• Billion Dollar Pest Leaves Farmers Demanding New Solutions
• NOAA: Drought Outlook Monthly – May
• Oklahoma Winter Wheat Crop Predictions Are Dismal- Ranging from 58 to 63 Million Bushels as 2018 Harvest Comes Into Sight
• Texas Grain Sorghum Acres Losing Out to Cotton and Corn – DTN
• Texas Cotton: Scouting for Thrips and Aphids

• Trump Delays Steel, Aluminum Tariffs
• NAFTA Negotiations Continue Next Week
• New TPP Moving Forward
• The Long, Hard Road to Export More U.S. Farm Products is Filled With Potholes
• Crop Progress, 04.30.2018
• Even Before China’s Sorghum Tariff, Texas Farmers Were Switching Acres to Cotton, Corn
• This Cattle Market Still Has Some Opportunity Left in It
• Cow-Calf Profit Analysis Lower-Profit Operations Have Some Things in Common
• SF Special: Farmer Suicides Today vs. 1980s Farm Crisis
• GRAINS-Corn prices edge down, but losses curbed as USDA confirms planting delays
• Trump’s Threats on Trade Unsettle Farming Backers-Wheat Farmers in Particular Worry About How Tariffs Would Affect Their Market
• U.S., China Trade Issues: Sorghum, Soybeans
• Wheat Crop Conditions in Oklahoma, Kansas Continue to Deteriorate While Texas Sees Slight Uptick
• USDA Meteorologist Releases Weather Forecast
• Oklahoma Sorghum: Be Ready for Sugarcane Aphids
• Rabobank Forecasts $4.00 Corn Prices This Year
• USDA Supports Specialty Crop Industry with Multi-State Initiatives
• Researchers Find No Link Between Antibiotic Use In Animals, Resistance In Humans

• RFA: Pruitt Granting RFS Waivers Subjectively, Maybe Illegally
• Pruitt Tells Lawmakers RFS Waivers Within the Law
• NAFTA Agreement Won’t Be Reached by May 1
• Farmers’ Share of Food Dollar Now at Record Low
• Monsanto to Launch Product That Deactivates Dicamba When Sprayer Is Being Cleaned-Has Its Sceptics
• Are We Seeing a Paradigm Shift in Price Discovery?
• U.S., China Trade Issues: Sorghum, Soybeans
• Brown, Thune Bill Aims to Improve Ag Risk Coverage
• Farm Bill Battle Lines Form Ag Groups, Others Defend Crop Insurance as Conservative Groups Seek More Cuts
• USDA Prices Recieved Index Up 4.5% on Month
• USDA Rural Development Innovation Center Launches Interactive Webpage to Share Best Practices for Rural Economic Development
• 7 Ag Stories You Might Have Missed the Week of April 27, 2018
• Wheat Gets Another Rally on Weather Concerns
• Cleveland on Cotton: Mills Struggle to Meet Demand; Price on a 90 Cent Path
• USDA: Peanut Price Highlights

• Will the Harvest Price Option Be a Farm Bill Target?
• Ag Broadband Connectivity Bill Will Close Connectivity Gaps
• Trump Administration Steps Up Effort to Reach NAFTA Deal
• Precision Ag Connectivity Act advances in Senate
• Farmers, Agribusiness In Southwest Turn To Cotton Amid Drought, Grain Prices
• Pruitt Tangles With Democrats, Defends RFS Policies
• EPA Administrator Tells House Committee Agency Wants to Work With Congress on RFS Reform
• Arkansas Supreme Court Halts Farmers’ Access to Dicamba
• Opinion: Draft 2018 Farm Bill is Good for Big Ag, Bad for Food Systems
• Cow-Calf Profit Analysis Lower-Profit Operations Have Some Things in Common
• Marketeye: Farm Markets Lack Bullishness
• E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce Grows
• Farm Bill Outlook- Perspective From Chairman Conaway
• NC Jury Hits Smithfield with $50 Million in Damages
• Biofuel: Did EPA Waivers Keep a Billion Gallons of Fuel out of the Supply Chain? – DTN
• Oklahoma Wheat: Diseases Becoming More Active, Scout Your Fields
• Time Running Out to Complete 2017 Census of Agriculture
• USDA Rural Development Innovation Center Launches Interactive Webpage to Share Best Practices for Rural Economic Development
• Secretary Perdue Statement on Senate Confirmation of Ken Barbic
• Cotton Farmers May Face Increased Bollworm Pressure This Season

Farm Policy Facts (Our View): Beware of Anti-Farm, Socialist Rhetoric

The “thinkers” who inhabit DC’s ivory tower think tanks now want farmers to work for free. Yes, you read that right. In fact, here’s the Cato Institute’s view on farm policies that help growers survive low prices:

Food is essential for human survival and we would all be better served if its price was, like sunlight and air, zero. The benefits of cheaper food and reduced hunger easily outweigh any losses borne by the farm sector…. The best farm bill is none at all.

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