Ag News

06.01.2017

• Terminology Important in Making Crop Insurance Claims
• Senators Not Happy with Trump Budget Cuts to Ag Programs
• U.S. Commerce Chief Says Hopes to Finish NAFTA Talks by Early January
• Corn Closed Up a Nickel Wednesday
• Early U.S. Winter Wheat Harvest Supports Low-Protein Fears
• Details of China/U.S. Beef Protocol Discussions Start to Emerge
• Heightened Importance On Summer Weather
• Fed’s Kaplan Sticks to Rate Forecast Despite Inflation Weakness
• Marketing Against the Grain
• Ross pledges NAFTA Renegotiation Will ‘Do No Harm’ to US Exports
• USDA: Productivity Gains, Declining Acreage Lower Cotton Production Costs

05.31.2017

• May 30, 2017 Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• 3 Practices for Your Cash Rent Approach
• Crops Finish Lower Tuesday
• 2017 Cattle Outlook: Prices Haven’t Hit the Bottom
• Details of China/U.S. Beef Protocol Discussions Start to Emerge
• Summer Weather Outlook 2017: Hot and Dry
• Will Lawmakers Find Common Ground on Energy Bill this Year?
• Texas Supreme Court Rules in Subsurface Trespass Case – Oil-Gas Lease
• Farm Bureau President Confident Congress Will Fully Fund Agriculture
• Senate Democrats Raise Concerns Over President Trump¹s Cuts to Rural Development in Joint Letter

05.30.2017

• Crop Insurance Ax Threatens Farm Country
• Leaders of Senate Agriculture Committee Say No to Farm Bill Cuts
• Southwest Oklahoma Young Farmer Adds Value to 100 Year Old Operation
• American Wheat Great Again as Exports to Overtake Russia’s
• USDA Reports Big April Cattle Placements
• USDA Raises FY2017 Ag Export Forecast
• Attention Turns to Crop Ratings
• Bayer’s Head Of Digital Farming Predicts Radical Changes Coming In Production Practices
• How Hard is it to be Above Average in Farming?
• Senate Ag Committee Chair Pat Roberts, AFBF President Zippy Duvall Speak at USMEF Conference

05.26.2017

• China Writes 117 Page Wish List for “Win-Win” U.S. Trade Ties
• Markets Have a Shot at Summer Rallies
• Disease, Drought, Government: Pick the Existential Threat to Farmers
• Ag Economists Weigh In On Farm Bill, Trump Budget
• Lighthizer on Bilateral Trade Deals for Ag
• Rural Recruits Make Up Roughly Half of Military
• Cotton Market Improvement Feared Temporary
• Texas Cotton, Sorghum: Abundant Cotton Aphids, Sugarcane Aphids Not So Much
• 2017 May Be Record Year For Corn Replanting
• Senate Ag Chairman Roberts’ Opening Remarks At Farm Economy Hearing

05.25.2017

• Conaway, Peterson Host Agriculture Committee Roundtable with Sec. Perdue and Amb. Lighthizer on Trade
• Budget Proposal ‘Will Kill Crop Insurance,’ Says Insurance Expert
• Crop Insurers Comment on President’s Proposed Budget
• Farm Groups Not Pleased with Trump’s Budget Proposal
• Ag Secretary Answers to House Committee on Budget Issues
• Perdue Assures Lawmakers Worried About USDA Budget Cuts
• Trump’s Budget Plan Calls for $200B in Infrastructure Repairs
• Rural Mainstreet Index Climbs To Its Highest Level In Almost Two Years
• Texas Cotton: Researchers Identify Cause of Bacterial Blight

05.24.2017

• Trump’s Proposed 2018 Budget Cuts Staff, Crop Insurance, Food Aid
• Crop Insurance Cut 36% in Trump Budget
• Watch on You Tube: Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s Message to USDA Staff Regarding FY2018 Budget
• Trump Budget Cuts May Stir Backlash in Rural America
• U.S. Wheat Associates Disappointed By Proposed 2018 Budget Cuts
• Three New Food Realities Facing Farmers
• Texas Field Reports: Moisture Levels a Concern for Some Cotton Growers
• Pesticide Legislation: HR 953 is Designed to Reduce Regs. on Farmers and Applicators – DTN
• DTN Cotton Close: Triple-Digit Loss for 2nd Day