Ag News

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

04.07.2016

• Woodward, OK Fire Tops 55,000 Acres and is Zero Contained- Oklahoma Forestry Services
• American Seed Trade Association Reports that Senate Passes Bill to Defend Trade Secrets
• New Research Reveals the Cost-Cutting and Survival Strategies of Farmers
• Wheat Falls 11 Cents Lower Wednesday on Crop Rating, Soyeans, Corn Closed Higher
• World Food Prices Edge Up in March
• ARC-CO Payments Depend on Farmer’s Survey Answers, USDA
• Agricultural Research Funding Shortchanged for Nearly 50 Years – DTN
• Agricultural Drones Market Forecast to Be Worth $3.69 Billion by 2022
• The Relationship between Stocks-to-Use and Corn and Soybean Prices: An Alternative View
• Website Could Help Beef Producers Improve Marketing Decisions