Ag News

06.15.2016

• USDA Extends Comment Period on Organic Livestock Rules
• Market Highlights: Demand for Quality Beef Driving up Prices
• U.S. Ag Exports Down in 2016, Imports Are Higher
• Monsanto Rejects Bayer’s Latest Offer
• Wheat Sequencing Consortium Releases Key Resource to Scientists
• Prominent DC Environmental Lawyer: Why Farmers Should Win Des Mines Water Works Lawsuit
• Livestock Indemnity Program May Offer Benefits for Livestock Death Losses
• Texas Crop and Weather Report — June 14

06.14.2016

• Credit Crunch for Farm Renters Compounds Stress on U.S. Growers
• USDA Export Sale: Unknown Destinations Buy 4.53 Million Bushel of Sorghum
• USDA Weekly Crop Progress: Planting and Emergence Looking Good – DTN
• And So It Begins: Weather Market 2016
• Cattle Outlook: U.S. Beef Exports Down
• Texas Corn: Irrigation Management Key to Bottom Line
• Supreme Court Rules for For Landowners – 3 Reasons it Matters to You
• To Better Manage Grazing Forage Monitoring Stick Helps Producers Keep Pastures Healthy
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• National Corn Growers Association Urges Farmers to Contact EPA on Atrazine

06.13.2016

• Farmers Seek Support for TPP
• More GMO Labeling Chaos Coming
• Money Managers Push Bets on Rising Corn Prices to Highest Since July
• Complete Coverage of June 10 USDA Reports
• The Farm CPA: New Overtime Rules Update
• Texas Livestock: Communities Come Together to Aid Animals Displaced by Floods
• Fertilizer Storage Restrictions Rescinded in New Bill
• U.S. Diesel Fuel Prices Continue to Rise
• Polls Shows Cash Rents Declining at Record Pace
• Small U.S. Tractor Sales Up 6% In May, Combines Down 29% For the Year

06.10.2016

• What Is Your Farm’s Competitive Advantage?
• Texas: Excess Moisture Causing Crop Losses Across the State
• U.S. Diesel Fuel Prices Continue to Rise
• National Wheat Yield Contest Spurs Innovation
• Fertilizer Storage Restrictions Rescinded in New Bill
• Producer Sentiment Settles Lower; Outlook Toward Farmland Remains
• Plains Grains Calls Wheat Harvest 28% Complete in Oklahoma- 27% in Texas
• Oklahoma Facing Potential for Heavy Tick Infestation
• Macroeconomic Data and Cattle Markets
• Soybeans Higher After Solid Weekly exports and Another Sale to China

06.09.2016

• Crops Rot While Trump-Led Immigration Backlash Idles Farm Work
• Soybeans Close 36¢ Higher Wednesday
• Cotton Farmers Catch a $300 Million Break
• Should I Plant Summer Annual Forage Grasses?
• Farm Data Security Has a Thumb-Sized Problem
• Texas Cotton: Wet Conditions and Yellow Cotton – What to Do?
• Texas Field Reports: Heavy Rains Hit Most of the State
• Texas Wheat: Managing for Hessian Fly
• Climate Change Will Affect Farmers’ Bottom Lines

06.08.2016

• Ag Barometer: Producer Sentiment Falls Slightly in May
• Beck’s "Why I Farm" Movement Hits the Road
• Some Texas Farmers Reporting Crop Damage After Storms, Others Say "Wait and See"
• Roberts, Conaway Talk About GMO Food Labeling Measure, Next Farm Bill
• Grain and Soybean Futures Firm in Late Trade
• SRW and HRW Wheat Condition Declines
• 15 Months, 100+ Inches of Rain
• Livestock Prices Push Down Ag Economy Index in May
• Texas: Ag Apps Seminar, Ft. Worth, July 22
• Ethanol Exports at Highest Level in Five Years
• Wheat Is What?: Wheat futures prices have traded above cost in only 16 of the past 30 years …
• Texas Crop and Weather Report — June 7