Ag News

09.20.2017

• Misleading Crop Insurance Attacks Hurt America’s Farmers
• Bayer-Monsanto Acquisition Closing Date Likely in Early 2018
• Weed Control ‘Savings’ Means Less Money in the Bank This Year
• Texas Field Reports: Sugarcane Aphids Not a Major Problem for Prepared Sorghum Producers
• Texas Cattleman Vows to Rebuild After Hurricane Harvey Claims Calf Herd
• In Wake of New Monsanto Seed, Illinois Sees More Crop Damage From Dicamba
• Senate Ag Chairman’s Opening Comments On Censky, McKinney Nominations
• Grain Markets Waiting for Pickup In Demand
• USDA Issues: "Wheat Outlook" Report PDF
• Read the Story From The Combines Not USDA, Pro Farmer
• Congress debates Future of Coal, Carbon Capture, Climate Change
• Ag Trade: USDA Export Data and Stakeholder Issues
• Welch on Wheat: Strong Exports Continue, Gulf Shipments Resume
• Weather: Changes in Daily Rain Patterns are Significant, says Study
• Lighthizer: China Disrupting Normal Global Trade
• Profit Tracker: Packer, Feeder Margins Decline

09.19.2017

• Crop Progress Report 09.18.17
• U.S. Trade Envoy Says NAFTA Talks Moving Quickly
• Analysts React to WASDE Report
• Ag Trade: USDA Export Data and Stakeholder Issues
• Grassley: Stepped Up Basis Could be Capped at $10.8 Million
• Trump’s Top Trade Negotiator Says China Unprecedented Threat
• Spurred by Conflict, World Hunger on the Rise Again
• Dicamba Faces State Restrictions Based on Weed Science Data – DTN
• DTN Cotton Close: Finishes Above Prior 3 Session Highs
• Texas Plains: Ideal Weather for Cotton Development, Sugarcane Aphids Still in Late Sorghum
• Farm Aid Highlights How Family Farmers Grow Opportunities
• 5 Ways To De-Risk Your Farm Operation

09.18.2017

• National Farm Safety and Health Week Sept. 17–23, 2017
• Washington Week Ahead: Senate Prepares to Move USDA Nominees
• The New Myth of Herbicide Rotation
• Global Farmers Consider Oilseed Alternatives to Soybeans
• Survey: Cover Crop Acres on the Rise
• Survey: Cover Crops Boost Yield and Weed Control
• La Nina Winter? Models Show 60 Percent Chance
• FJCTV: How Replant Decisions Impacting Yield Expectations
• Oklahoma Wheat: Germination and Emergence in Hot Soils
• Rose on Cotton: The September WASDE Report was ‘Unbelievable’
• Farm Aid Highlights How Family Farmers Grow Opportunities
• Trends in Income By Farm Type 2012-2016
• ODAFF’s Made in Oklahoma Program Gets New 3,600 Sq. Ft. Store Front Location at OK State Fair

09.15.2017

• Kim Anderson Says Two Years to Clear Wheat Stocks But Only One Year to Clear Feed Grain Stocks
• ASA Considers EU Court Ruling on Member State GMO Bans a Victory
• Senate Ag Committee Farm Bill Hearing: SNAP Quality Control Issues
• USDA: Higher Ag Exports, Higher Trade Surplus In 2018
• Sound and Fury of Hurricanes to Echo in Congress
• Texas Sunflower Harvest Nearly Half Complete
• Battle Lines Over Dicamba Use in 2018 Drawn in Arkansas

09.14.2017

• Texas Field Reports: Wheat Acres Likely to Remain Static or Decrease Slightly
• Reviewing Cottonseed Provisions in the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill
• Beef Industry Gears Up to Battle It Out in DC Over Tax Reform – With the Death Tax in the Crosshairs
• Crop Farmers: Faint Hope For a Rebound in Ag Economy
• Irma May Have Destroyed Half of Florida’s Orange Crop
• Farmers Affected by Hurricanes Get Extra Time for Claims
• NASS to Collect Additional Harvested Acreage Info
• National Geographic Places Corn’s Sustainability Story Front And Center – Once on the site, scroll to view videos.
• Dow Launches Enlist One Herbicide For Cotton, Corn, Soybeans

09.13.2017

• Bigger Crops Derail Markets
• Crop Farmers: Faint Hope For a Rebound in Ag Economy
• Pro Farmer Reaction to USDA Reports
• Weather and Crop Bulletin: Sept. 12, 2017
• WASDE: World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
• Crop Production, 09.12.2017 [pdf]
• USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
• Irma Could Devastate Expected Record Peanut Crop
• USDA Shocks Market By Raising Corn and Soybean Production, Yield
• USDA: Agricultural Exports Forecast Up In 2017, Slightly Down In 2018
• Handling Income from Crop Revenue Insurance-Price Loss vs. Yield Loss
• Agricultural Conditions Mixed in Latest Beige Book
• Texas Hurricane Losses: When Crop Insurance Won’t Help – DTN
• AFR Members in Washington Talking Farm Issues With USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue
• AccuWeather: Economic Cost of Hurricanes Could be $290 Billion
• Farm Family Business: To Be Successful, Don’t Act Like Family – DTN