Ag News

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

03.26.2018

• Forage Crop Hinges on Rainfall in April, May
• Ag Secretary, Farm Leaders Praise Provisions of Measure Affecting Agriculture
• Purdue Study Pinpoints Optimal Corn Plant Population
• Administration Revises Steel and Aluminum Tariffs, But Worrisome Impact to U.S. Ag Exports Remains
• Funds Give Ag the Cold Shoulder
• Call for Tariffs Shows Cattle Industry’s Trade Policy Divide
• Commodity and Ag Groups React to the Imposed Chinese Tariffs
• Pork, Ethanol Among Agricultural Products Targeted By China in Trade Conflict
• Big Ag Companies Avoid Move to Co-op Status
• As Trade Tensions Mount, China Soybean Buyers Devise Contingency Plans
• Trump Draws Ire of Farmers Caught in Trade Dispute
• China Tells U.S. it Will Defend Interests After Tariffs
• Perdue Applauds Broadband Investment
• Cattle on Feed Jumps 9 Percent from 2017
• USDA: Farm Debt Service Ratio Forecast to Stabilize
• Farm Futures Magazine Releases Results Of Its Planting Intentions Survey
• Dicamba: What is Success or Failure in 2018?
• House Ag Committee Chairman Mike Conaway Defends His SNAP Reforms and Talks Farm Bill With Ron Hays

03.23.2018

• Trump Imposes Tariffs on China
• Trump Considering Up To $60 Billion In Tariffs on Chinese Goods
• Farmers Expect to Bear Brunt of China’s Response to US Tariffs, Investment Restrictions
• China Plans to Hit US with Tariffs Following Trump Trade Sanctions
• Sec. Perdue Releases Statement on Omnibus Spending Bill
• Senator Roberts to US Trade Rep Lighthizer: We Need Markets for Agriculture; Must be Proactive not Reactive
• American Soybean Assn: Retaliation By China Will Cost Farmers Their Livelihoods
• Congressional Leaders Reach Agreement on Budget
• Omnibus Bill Includes 199A “Grain Glitch” Change
• How are Farmers Affording High Land Prices?
• Regulatory Relief, Funding Boosts for Ag Provided, Albeit Delayed
• Court Tells EPA it Violated Law When it Delayed Worker Protection Safety Rule