Ag News

09.29.2017

• University Researchers: Limiting Crop Insurance Cuts Deep
• Indiana Mega-Farmer Is Face of Trump’s Drive to Repeal Estate Tax
• Trump Administration Considering Biofuel Policy Change
• Roberts Hears Ideas for Improving Farm Bill
• Trump Vows Tax Plan Will "Protect Farmers, Ranchers, Small Businesses"
• Perdue on Trump’s Tax Reforms
• ASA ‘Steps Up Urgency’ In Search for Dicamba Answers
• Senate Farm Bill Hearing, Rural Development- Broadband Access, Opioid Epidemic Noted
• Northey, Ibach Get Date with Senate Ag Committee
• Wheat Growers Head to Capital Hill to Discuss Farm Bill
• Texas Land Trends Report Shows Dramatic Changes in Ownership
• Public Funding of Agricultural Research: Assessment and Suggested New Paradigm
• BPI Establishes $10 Million Fund for Former Employees Following ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement

09.28.2017

• Texas Land Trends Report Shows Dramatic Changes in Ownership
• U.S. Net Farm Income Down 49% Since 2013
• Farm Bill: Top 3 Issues are Not as Important as Low Prices – Commentary
• Wheat Organizations Applaud Trump Administration’s Aggressive Trade Enforcement At The WTO
• The Nation’s Wheat Growers Take On Capital Hill To Talk Farm Bill
• NAFTA: Some Progress Reported After Third Round of Talks Ends
• Futures Ease as Rally Sputter
• U.S. Scientists to Skip Monsanto Summit on Dicamba
• Cover Crops Increase Destruction of Weed Seed
• Can Cattle Futures Find a Floor?
• CoBank: Beef Packing Capacity Prepared for Increasing Cow Herd
• Still Not Much is Known About Tax Reform
• Landowners’ Rebuttal Closing Argument to Oppose XL Pipeline
• 350,000 Corn Growers May Receive Payment In Syngenta’s Lawsuit Settlement
• Op-Ed By USFRA CEO: The Non-GMO Project – Creating Fake News At The Grocery Store

09.27.2017

• USDA Eyes News Crop Insurance Markets
• RMA Report (PDF) Analysis Federal Crop Insurance Portfolio
• Syngenta to Pay $1.4 billion to Settle Viptera Claims
• Get Ready to Respond to the Census of Agriculture
• USDA Fails to Monitor Foreign Owners of Farmland
• Crop Damage Unacceptable, Says Soy Group Seeking Path Forward on Dicamba
• The Waiting Game Ahead Of Reports
• Texas Field Reports: Conditions Brewing for Warm, Dry Winter
• Cattle Futures Limit Down After Bearish USDA Report
• Nat’l Assn Of Wheat Growers Submits Comments In Support Of The EPA’s Withdrawal Of WOTUS
• Op-Ed: Why We Need A Farm Bill And Safety Net
• An Example of Combining Margin Protection and Revenue Protection

09.26.2017

• Roberts, Stabenow Announce Rural Development, Energy Hearings
• Don’t Expect Major Breakthroughs–3rd Round of NAFTA Negotiations
• Conaway: Texas Cotton Growers Resilient in Wake of Harvey
• AFBF 2017 Fall Harvest Marketbasket Survey Shows 3% increase
• Comment by Sept. 27 on WOTUS Rule
• After Hurricane Maria, ‘There Is No More Agriculture in Puerto Rico’
• Soybeans Close Down 13¢ Monday
• Crop Progress Report
• U.S. Cattle on Feed Up 4 Percent
• South Texas Farmers Describe Storm Damage

09.25.2017

• USDA-RMA Report: Analysis of the Federal Crop Insurance Portfolio
• South Texas Asks Perdue, Conaway, Miller for Assistance
• Congressman Frank Lucas Talks Farm Bill Markup- and Thankful Bart Fischer Survived Major SUV Crash
• 3 Big Things Today, September 25
• Roberts: Not the Time for a Revolutionary Farm Bill
• September Rural Mainstreet Index Reaches 2017 Low
• U.S. Farm Sector Balance Sheet
• Washington Week Ahead: GOP Set To Roll Out Tax Reform
• Is the Low in for New-Crop Corn?
• Corn Farmers Expect Largest Grain Crop in 6 Years
• John Phipps: Will Farm Consolidation Consume U.S. Agriculture?
• AgDay Forecast: Who Gets Moisture This Week?
• The Ultimate Farm Financial Checklist

09.22.2017

• Where Does it Cost the Most and Least to Rent Pasture?
• Which 10 States Have the Highest Cash Rent?
• New Version of WOTUS to Be Proposed In 2018
• Damage From Dicamba Spurs Confusion, Questions
• China to Import More Corn to Meet Ethanol Fuel Use – Analyst
• Farm Markets End Slightly Higher Thursday
• First Group of Chinese Beef Buyers Visits Nebraska
• Taiwan Signs $576M Wheat Deal With U.S.
• Senators Help Promote U.S. Agriculture
• FAO Report: Global Hunger is on the Rise Again
• Rural Mainstreet Index Slips to Lowest Level Since 2016
• USDA: Organic sales up 23% in 2016
• House Ag Committee Staffers Travelling with Conaway, Perdue in Texas Injured in Traffic Accident