Ag News

04.15.2016

• Crop Insurance Payments Unlikely to Cover Production Costs
• Crop Insurance Guarantees Compared to Total Costs Over Time
• Crop Markets Ease After Recent Gains
• Senator Wants to Remove Loophole Commodities Bill
• Brown: CFTC Written for Wall Street, Not Farmers
• Ag Spending Bill Advances in House Subcommittee
• USDA Confirms Negative Farm Net Income in 2013
• Farms Face Increased Financial Pressure, Farm Bureau President Tells Ag Subcommittee
• Ag Subcommittee Holds Hearing Focused on Farm Economy
• USDA Exports – Old–Crop Crorn, Soybean, Wheat Sales Increase
• ‘EARN’ Legislation Encourages New Generation of Ag Producers
• Texas Crop-Weather Regional Reports

04.14.2016

• USTR Michael Fromann Tells Cattlemen that TPP is a Billion Dollar Deal for US Beef Producers
• Corn, Soybeans and Wheat Post Solid Gains After Bullish China Export Data
• Bloomberg: Agriculture Traders See No Relief from Glut-Fueld Bear Market
• What’s Your Farm Data Worth?
• Searching for More Simplicity in Precision Ag
• Texas Crop and Weather Report – April 13
• Texas Wheat: Assessing Freeze Injury
• Conaway Wants Answers from EPA for Funding Anti-Farmer Campaign
• U.S. Spring Wheat Acres Expected Down This Year
• USDA: Peanut and Tree Nut Consumption Rises With Income
• Forming Corn and Soybean Price Expectations for 2016-17

04.13.2016

• Crop Markets Pare Gains After USDA Report, But Remain Higher
• How Much Can You Pay for Heifers
• U.S. Small Tractor Sales Up 18% in March, Comine Sales Down 14% for the Year
• USDA: Land in Active Crop Productin Dips in 2015
• Wheat Slides to 5-Week Low
• In Iowa Corn Fields, Chinese National’s Seed Theft Exposes Vulnerability
• China’s Global Ag Conquest
• Defend Trade Secrets Act’s Impact on Agribusiness
• Disease Control Essential for High Peanut Yields
• Grain Sorghum: Transform Sugarcane Aphid Section 18 Granted For Texas
• Oklahoma Senate Passes Cattle Theft Bill

04.12.2016

• Grain Sorghum: Transform Sugarcane Aphid Section 18 Granted For Texas
• Senate Committees Review Farm Bill Programs
• All Eyes on Demand Estimates in WASDE Report
• Wheat Conditions Worsen
• Crop Progress Report: PDF
• Farmers Get Biggest U.S. Subsidy Check in Decade as Prices Drop
• Ag Coalition Asks for Action on TPP
• USDA: Corn Planting at 4% vs 1% Year Ago
• Weather Forecast Creates Fuel for Traders
• Criticism of Some Farm Credit’s Loan Recipients Heats Up

04.11.2016

• EPA Again Questioned of Their Support for Agriculture
• 14 Questions and Answers About Farm Transportation Regulations
• Agriculture Drone Market Set to Surge 746
• Ag Coalitions Files Brief in Court to Challenge EPA’s Cancellation of Bayer’s Belt Insecticide
• Farmers Business Network Launches Crop Input Purchasing Service
• Farm Input Surveys Reveal Slim Cuts
• Investor Group Launches Campaign to Curb Antibiotic Use in Food
• New Peanut Releases Make 100 Percent High Oleic Production Possible in Southwest
• Coming Off a Good Cotton Year, Oklahoma Growers Look to 2016
• 350 Complex Fire in Woodward Now Seventy Percent Contained- Canadian County Fire Quickly Controlled

04.08.2016

• Firefighters Hope to Contain Oklahoma Blaze as Winds Subside
• DuPont Pioneer and Origin Agritech to Develop New Seed Technology for China
• Weather Outllook: Cold Will Pass, Expect Better Planting Weather in Mid-April
• DuPont Last week said It Won’t Restart a Texas Factory that Makes Lannate Insecticide Due to Monsanto Intacta Soybeans
• Will Growers Stay With Corn or Switch to Sorghum?
• USDA Details Standards in Proposed Organic Livestock Rule
• Texas Sorghum: Sugarcane Aphids Confirmed Around Hillsboro
• Record 150 Million Miles Driven on E15 in Past Year
• Survey Shows Low Commodity Prices Driving Decision Making by Most Farmers