Ag News

04.03.2018

• Full Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• USDA Crop Progress: Agency’s First Report for 2018 Debuts
• The Rest of the Story: Crop Report Opportunities
• Farm’s Next Leader is Part of Your Legacy
• Thank Your Agronomist During Agronomy Week
• China Hammers U.S. Goods With Tariffs as “Sparks” of Trade War Fly
• Soybean Futures Close Lower Monday Amid Trade Concerns
• China Warns U.S. Not to Open Pandora’s Box, Unlease Trade Ills on World
• Former Secretaries Johanns, Vilsack Hope for Quick Trade Resolution
• Farm Economy: Land Values, Ag Credit, Lending, and Income
• Chinese Tariffs Target Farmers and Raise Trade War Fears
• USDA Announces No Actions Under Feedstock Program
• USDA’s First National Crop Progress Report Rates US Winter Wheat at 32 Percent Good to Excellent
• Oklahoma Wheat: Disease Still Quiet, but Increasing in Texas

04.02.2018

• Weekly Cotton Market Review – USDA
• Budget Discipline and Farm Policy: An Example and Farm Bill Preview
• Spring Marketbasket Survey Finds Higher Retail Prices
• Q & A: Bill Northey, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
• To Overcome Shortage, Brazil Seeks Approval to Import U.S. Corn
• Beans Surge to End Week After USDA Surprises With Lower Acreage Outlook
• China Aims for Modernized Farm Sector by 2035
• Perdue Issues Statement on Plant Breeding
• Food Law Leaders Join the Farm Bill Fray
• 2018 Grain Stocks: Corn Up 3%, Soybeans Up 21%
• DTN Livestock Close: Cattle End 1st Quarter in State of Collapse
• Texas Livestock Producers May Be Eligible for 2018 Drought Disaster Assistance

03.30.2018

• Crop Insurance Protects Farming for Future Generations
• Budget Discipline and Farm Policy: An Example and Farm Bill Preview
• Farm Bill: Chairman Conaway Continues to Highlight SNAP Concepts
• Prospective Plantings Report: National Agricultural Statistics Service
• Row Crops Find Reason to Celebrate
• Corn, Soybeans Jump on Low Acreage Forecast
• To Overcome Shortage, Brazil Seeks Approval to Import U.S. Corn
• Perdue Issues Statement on Plant Breeding
• Food Law Leaders Join the Farm Bill Fray
• Op-Ed: What Can Help U.S. With North Korea? One Answer Is Agriculture

03.29.2018

• Our View: ‘Get A Second or Third Job’ Is Not Sound Farm Policy–The Wall Street Journal recently published a provocative piece with a title that perfectly summed up the fallout from collapsing incomes in farm country
• ICYMI: Crop Insurance Protects Farming for Future Generations
• Capitol Hill Defenders of Crop Insurance Repulse White House Attack
• Perdue Statement on Agreement in Principle on KORUS
• Bumpy Ride for U.S. Agriculture
• USDA Reports Preview Start With Stocks, Then Add Acreage
• The Multiple Problems with Multi-Year “Cycles”
• Perdue Planning Third “Back to the Roots Tour
• 3 Big Things Today, March 29
• Brazil Soybean Prices Surge as U.S.-China Trade Spat Deepens
• Trump Administration Scores First Revised Trade Deal
• Pro Farmer, Farmer Estimates Ahead of Prospective Plantings Report
• U.S. and Korea Agree to Fix Trump Trade Concerns
• Peanut Stocks and Processing: Utilization Up 3%, 4.6 Bln Pounds in Storage

03.28.2018

• FarmTownStrong Website Provides Help in Battling Rural Opioid Addiction
• Wall Street Journal: For U.S. Farmers, China Tariffs’ Timing is Brutal
• Americans For Farmers & Families Launches Effort To Protect Ag From Trade Retaliation
• Trudeau Unvelils Strict Measures to Combat "Unfair Trade"
• Wheat Futures Close Lower on Improved Crop Conditions in Southern Plains
• Coalition to Protect U.S. Farms from Tariffs
• An Acreage Battle Looms
• McConnell Lends His Voice to Industrial Hemp Legalization
• USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
• DTN Cotton Open: Ticks Mixed As May Edges Higher
• Some TX Wheat Farmers Seek Disaster Aid Due to Severe Drought
• Texas: 60 Counties Designated Natural Disaster Areas from Drought
• Obesity is Shifting Cancer to Young Adults
• Cash Rents on Professionally Managed Farmland in 2018 and 2019
• Noticeable Improvement Seen in Wheat Condition this Week Compared to Last in Latest Crop Report

03.27.2018

• Planting Intentions: Will Farmers Stick to Same Rotation as 2017?
• 3 Big Things Today, March 27
• The Bullish Case for Commodities in 2018
• U.S., South Korea Amend Trade Agreement to Avoid Tariffs
• Perdue Praises Section 100A Tax Code Fix
• Farm Bill- SNAP: Perspective From Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson
• Acreage Preview: Soybeans Will Dominate
• Smith Bill Gives Roadmap for Next Farm Bill Energy Section
• Tariffs To Be Placed On Canadian, Mexican Steel If NAFTA Issues Aren’t Resolved By May 1
• Noticeable Improvement Seen in Wheat Condition this Week Compared to Last in Latest Crop Report