Ag News

05.03.2018

• How Much Cotton Will SW Farmers Plant?
• Mnuchin: ‘We Will Protect Our Farmers’
• Ag Barometer Declines Second Month Amid Looming Trade Concerns
• A New Crop of Farmers is Emerging
• Paulsen Releases White Paper “How Women Can Get Ahead In Agribusiness”
• Perdue Comments on North Carolina Hog Ruling
• Inflation Gauge Surges to Highest Level in 7 Years
• An Open Letter to NASS Statistics Division Director Kerestes
• USDA Undersecretary “More Optimistic Than Not” On Trade
• Bunge: China has Stopped US Soybean Purchases
• Markets Wait: Just How Bad do Scouts Think Wheat Crop Is
• White House Sets Meeting With Senators on Biofuels Next Week -Sources
• Chances for U.S.-China Trade Breakthrough Seen Slim in Beijing Talks
• What’s Behind Meatless Mondays?
• Why the Humane Society Says It Gets a Bad Rap from the Livestock Industry
• Conservative Groups Demand Farm Program Reforms
• Texas: Marketing Plans Help Farmers Capitalize on Grain Markets

05.02.2018

• 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

05.01.2018

• 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

04.30.2018

• 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

04.27.2018

• 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

New Video Commemorates Secretary Perdue’s First Year