Ag News

05.01.2017

• Washington Week Ahead: Budget Deal Reached, Perdue to Ease Nutrition Rules
• Perdue Pledges USDA Focus on the Needs of Farmers
• Trump "Engaged" When Discussing Ag, Wants to Learn From Perdue
• 7 Ag Stories You Might Have Missed–Week pf April 28, 2017
• Iowa’s Ag Secretary Eyes USDA Role Possibilities
• This Could Be High-Risk Year for Stored Grain
• Texas Cotton: Drift Injury Doesn’t Predict Yield Loss
• Rose on Cotton: Wet Weather Holding Planters Back; Watch Dec Contract
• USDA: Peanut Price Highlights
• U.S. Drought Levels Reach Record Low
• USDA to Measure Farmers’ Financial Health
• USDA: Farmland Ownership Concentrated Among Older Operators And Landlords, And Male Operators
• President Trump Agrees To Not Terminate But Rather Renegotiate NAFTA
• A Reminder on NAFTA and Agriculture

04.28.2017

• How Did Farmers Grade Trump’s First 100 Days?
• The Cottonseed Conundrum
• Trump Won’t Immediately Terminate NAFTA
• National Biodiesel Board Argues RFS Case
• Corn, Soybean Prices Finish Higher Thursday
• Wheat Helps a No-Till Rotation
• Doesn’t Take Much of a Hiccup to Get Back to Profitable Grains
• Ag Groups Support Regulatory Accountability Act
• Ag Secretary Perdue Hosts Bipartisan Breakfast With House Agriculture Leaders

04.27.2017

• White House Introduces "Biggest Tax Cut" in U.S. History
• Death Tax Officially on Chopping Block
• Trump Orders Review of National Monuments
• Trade Commodity Groups Decry Trump Proposal to Withdraw from NAFTA
• Grassley, Cantwell Introduce Legislation to Reform Biodiesel Tax Credit
• Farm Markets Record a Lower Finish Wednesday
• Major Beef Supplier Cargill to Exit U.S. Cattle-Feeding Business
• Perdue’s First Day on the Job
• Wheat Planting Lagging Across the North

04.26.2017

• Trump Signs Executive Order for Agriculture
• The Good and Bad of New Executive Order for Agriculture
• Trump Drops Wall to Avoid Shut Down, Farm Workers Fearful
• Trump Slaps Tariff on Canadian Lumber in Response to Dairy Battle
• Iowa Ag Secretary Shares His Observation on President Trump’s Ag Roundtable
• Farmer, Rancher’s Share of Food Dollar Lower Than What You Think
• Farm Policy Facts: There is No Free Market When it Comes to Agriculture
• 5 Things To Watch in 2018 Farm Bill and Agricultural Legislation
• Soybeans Close Lower, Grains Jump as Investors Weigh Planting, Dollar
• Texas Cotton: Tillage, Rotation, Cover Cropping Study Show Definite Advantages
• Mexico Talks Tough on Trump With NAFTA Talks Looming
• Nearly a Third of U.S. Ag Workers are Foreign Born
• Acre Changes in Crops from 1991 to 2016

04.25.2017

• April 24, 2017: Crop Progress Report | PDF
• Senate Ag Committee’s Chairman Roberts Announces Perdue’s Senate Confirmation
• Chairman Conaway Applauds the Confirmation of Secretary Perdue
• A Sea of Issues Await Perdue When He Walks in the Door at USDA
• National Cotton Council Pleased With Perdue Confirmation
• Nat’l Assn Of Wheat Growers Statement On The Confirmation Of Sonny Perdue’s Confirmation
• Trump Could Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 15%
• Soybean Prices Close Double Digits Higher Monday
• Current Corn Market Price Factors
• DTN Livestock Close: Cattle Futures Crash In Reaction to Record March Placement
• Farm and Kids – Every 3 Days a Child Dies in Ag-Related Accident

04.24.2017

• Feed Buyers Urged to Secure Supplies, Analyst Says
• Wall Street’s Bets on Commodities Put to the Test
• March Cattle Placements Hit New Monthly High
• New Farm Journal Fund Doubles Your Donation for Wildfire Recovery
• Oil Back Below $50 Amid Growing U.S. Production
• Senate Set to Confirm Sonny Perdue as Agriculture Secretary
• Texas LRGV Row Crops: Cotton Squaring; Sugarcane Aphid in the Grain Sorghum
• Welch on Wheat: Marketing Year Exports Up 32% Over Last Year
• Rose on Cotton: Crop Worth Less in the Future? Time to Get Some Protection Now
• Japan Pushes Back Against U.S. Pressure for Bilateral Trade Deal
• KC Fed Reports Farm Lending Continues To Moderate
• USDA Announces 2017 Cotton Loan Rate Differentials
• Have Generic Acres Impacted Planting Decisions?