Ag News

04.04.2017

• USDA: Winter Wheat Condition Down a Little from a Year Ago
• Farmers Score Win With a Chlopyrifos Decision
• Funds Sell Commodities, But Interest Could Revive
• Devastation From Wildfires Still Burns Across TX, OK, KS
• 51% of U.S. Winter Wheat Rated Good to Excellent
• Dear Mr. President: Agriculture Needs Legal, Temporary Workers
• Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Trade Abuse
• Draft of New NAFTA Agreement Includes Only Modes
• Survey Reports Half of U.S. Workers Will Wait Until at Least Age 70 to Retire or Won’t Retire at All
• Weekly Outlook: Implications of the Prospective Planting Acreage and Grain Stocks for Corn and Soybeans
• How Should Farm Business Income be Divided?
• Texas: Cattle Producers Can Expect More Volatility, Supply Fluctuations
• Texas – LRGV: Sugarcane Aphid In Sorghum; Boll Weevils, Thrips, Aphids in Cotton

04.03.2017

• Sonny Perdue Is One Step Away From Becoming Agriculture Secretary
• EPA Reverses Self, Decides Not to Ban Chlopyrifos
• Grain Stocks for Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Top Trade Forecasts
• USDA Prospective Plantings Report
• FMC to Buy DuPont Assets Including Insecticide and Cereal Herbicide Businesses
• Brazil Seen Producing a Huge Soybean Crop
• Gulke: Soybean Prices Fall On Two Report Revelations
• Will a New Month Bring Fund Buying?
• Trump Signs Orders Aimed at Trade Abuse
• Ag Groups Call for Estate Tax Repeal, Continuation of Stepped-up Basis
• USDA Accepting CSP Contract Renewals
• Agriculture Groups Focus On Importance Of Immigration Reform In Letter To President

03.31.2017

• Perdue Clears Senate Agriculture Committee
• House Ag Committee Examines Farm Policy, and Farm Credit Issues
• USDA Prospective Plantings Report on Friday, but Does it Matter? – DTN
• EPA Reverses Self, Decides Not to Ban Chlorpyrifos
• Commodity Groups Request More Benefits for ARC, PLC and Crop Insurance- DTN
• Vilsack Says NAFTA Focus Should Be On Canada
• Beef Industry Asks Trump to Help Get U.S. Beef Back into China
• Report: Drone ROI Averages $15 Per Acre
• Could College Debt Incentivize Kids to Come Back to the Farm?
• Texas Ag Law: Dicamba and 2,4-D Drift – First Rule: Document Everything
• Peanut Outlook Takes a 180-Degree Turn from Last Year

03.30.2017

• Committee Vote on Perdue Pushed Back to Thursday
• USDA Secretary-Nominee Confirms Support for RFS; House and Senate To Consider ESA, Brownfields, Energy and Water; NOAA Seeks Marine Experts
• USDA Acreage Deviation Vs. Year Ago
• USDA to Bring the Market Heat Friday
• Beef Industry Asks Trump to Help Get U.S. Beef Back into China
• Wind, Solar Power Could Grow 51% by 2020
• Should We Expect a Spring Rally in Corn?
• Pruitt Remarks on EPA’s Review of Clean Power Plan
• Cattlemen Applaud Re-Establishment Of Congressional Beef Caucus
• USDA Announces Loan Rates For Wheat, Feed Grains, Oilseeds, Rice And Pulse Crops

03.29.2017

• Chairman Pat Roberts Announces Committee Vote for USDA Secretary Nominee Today
• House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Holds Hearing on Next Farm Bill
• ASA Leader Testifies in Support of Crop Insurance
• Mexico Opens Door to Brazil’s Rice. Corn Next?
• USDA to Bring the Market Heat Friday
• Tough Times for Farm Income, Bright Spots on the Horizon
• Gulke: Acreage Surprises Possible in 2017 Planting Intentions Report
• Judge Approves Settlement ot Protect Farmers’ Privacy
• Relationships of Soybean-to-Corn Price Ratios Between Projected and Harvest Periods

03.28.2017

• Farm Groups Concerned With Perdue Vote Delay
• Dow, DuPont Get Conditional EU Nod
• What Does the Banker Want?
• Soybeans Close 6¢ Lower Monday
• U.S. Oil Refiners Push for Biofuels Overhaul at White House
• Mexico Considers Granting Duty-Free Access to South American Corn
• "Emotional Element" to Farm Bill Discussion
• Texas Cotton: Cotton Ginners’ Association Meeting and Trade Show, Lubbock, April 5
• Livestock Producers and Industry Divided Over USDA Proposed Rules – DTN
• Health Insurance Has Become Farmers’ New No. 1 Worry