Ag News

06.05.2017

• Agri-Pulse: Ag Sec’y Suggests Crop Insurance Is Being Abused
• Farm Leaders Take to Newspaper Opinion Pages to Defend Crop Insurance
• Washington Week Ahead: Lawmakers Defend Food Aid, Perdue Goes to Canada
• Ag Sec’y Perdue Issues Statement On Pres Trump Cancelling U.S.’ Participation In Paris Accord
• Cotton’s Effect on the Environment Continues to Diminish
• Wheat Harvest 2017 – Low Yields, Fewer Acres in Southern Plains
• Farmers’ Grain Marketing Practices Vary Little, Study Finds
• Corn Prices Will Follow Summer Weather, Says Analyst
• Pullout From Paris Accord Will Have No Impact on Biofuels
• Are Organic Pesticides Safer Than Synthetic Counterparts?
• With Trump in the White House, Could a Full Repeal of the "Death Tax" Finally Happen?

06.02.2017

• Trump Pulls U.S. from Paris Climate Accord
• Pullout from Paris Accord Will Have No Impact on Biofuels
• Senate Democrats Cry Foul Over Proposed Rural Development Cuts
• Top 10 Concerns of Young Farmers
• USDA Says April Prices Paid, Received Up on Month
• Details of China/U.S. Beef Protocol Discussions Start to Emerge
• Summer Weather Outlook 2017
• More Moisture in Texas Panhandle Could Lead to More Cotton
• White House Push for Tolls Alarms Waterway Users
• Plains Grains Calls Oklahoma Wheat Harvest 16 Percent Complete- Texas at 27 Percent Done
• Deere To Acquire World’s Largest Road Construction Equipment Manufacturer

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