Ag News

07.05.2017

• Ag Industry Urges Trump to Appoint Full USDA Leadership Team
• Trump’s Rural Broadband Goal Won’t Be Easy, It Will be Costly
• U.S. Wheat, Corn, Soy Climb as MGEX Spring Wheat Tops $8
• Agro-terrorism Legislation Becomes Law
• Farmer Testifies on Conservation
• EU Trade Deal With Japan Likely
• Court Orders EPA to Enforce Methane Regulations
• Nalivka: IRS Should Not Manage Ranch Finances

07.03.2017

• USDA Shocks Markets With Low Soybean, Wheat Acres
• Fund Money Flows into Wheat
• U.S. Farmers Surprise Market, Plant More Corn, USDA Says
• Arkansas: Dicamba Ban Reaches Final Step
• Senate Ag Committee Advances CFTC Chair Nominee
• Retail Fuel’s Downward Trend Continues
• Senators Urge USTR to Strengthen Ag Trade in NAFTA
• Highlights Of Ag Sec’y Perdue’s Meetings In China
• Southwest Crop Update: First Bale of Cotton Harvested, Dry Conditions Reported

06.30.2017

• Chicago Wheat Market Closes 23¢ Higher
• Reflections on Planting Season 2017
• Perdue ‘Can’t Do It Alone,’ Say Farm Groups, Asking Trump for USDA Appointments
• Canada’s Farmers Plant More Canola Than Wheat for First Time Ever
• Grain Rally Possible In Early July, Author Says
• Traders Brace for USDA
• Senate Ag Passes PRIA, Endorses Giancarlo as Chairman of CFTC
• EPA and Texas Partner on Pesticide Safety
• Senators Urge USTR to Strengthen Ag Trade in NAFTA
• Plains Grains Reports Wheat Harvest All But Done in Oklahoma and Texas for 2017

06.29.2017

• RMA: Double Cropping Revision and Practical to Replant Amendment (PDF)
• Ag Committees in ‘Listening’ Mode Should Put Farmers in ‘Talking Mode’
• Trade Eyes Friday’s USDA Acreage Report
• Gulke: Acreage Uncertainty Looms As Trade Sticks Close To USDA
• Did Farmers Really Plant Less Corn Acres?
• House Appropriators Advance Ag, Energy Bills
• EPA and Texas Partner on Pesticide Safety
• Agricultural Youth Work Guidelines Released
• Wheat Growers Urge Administration To Fill USDA Leadership Vacancies
• Forbes Magazine Announces Its 25 Most Innovative AgTech Startups
• Nebraska Beef Arrives in China; Ibach There to Celebrate
• Realities of U.S. Beef’s Access to China

06.28.2017

• Conaway Praises EPA Repeal of WOTUS, Calls for Continued Work to Protect Farmers and Ranchers
• Farm Groups Applaud Withdrawal of WOTUS Rule
• How Much $ Does It Take to Become a Farmer?
• The Cash Rent Spectrum Is Wide
• USDA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin PDF
• Cattle on Feed Up 3%
• U.S. Trade Representative Begins NAFTA Hearings
• Crop Ratings Dip Supports Prices
• U.S. Winter Wheat Protein Levels Remain Low, Premiums Swell
• Farm Equipment: Repair or Replace?
• Countdown to Important USDA Reports
• Perry Launches Trump’s ‘Energy Week’ With Nuclear Pledge
• Machinery Cost Estimates for 2017

06.27.2017

• Crop Progress Report 06.26.17
• First Signs of Trade Trouble with Mexico Surface
• Farm Markets Close Mostly Higher Monday
• How Has Your State Fared Under the 2014 Farm Bill?
• Texas Sorghum: Sugarcane Aphids Confirmed in Lubbock County
• DTN Cotton Close: Rallies Off New Dec. Low
• USDA Issues: "Commodity Cost And Returns" Report
• Oklahomans Poised to Plant Largest Cotton Crop This Year Since the 1980s, Thanks to New Technologies
• Economist Derrell Peel Predicts Cattle Markets Likely to Hold a Sideways Pattern for Remainder of 2017