Ag News

09.20.2022

• Crop Progress Report .09.20.2022 (PDF)
• This USDA report sparked more questions than answers
• Fewer youth farm injuries, death rate same
• Technology will preserve irrigated acreage
• Drought, heat take toll on Texas peanut crop, prices strong
• Weekly grain movement: Another big week for wheat
• Ask these 5 questions before buying seed
• Off-farm income increasingly important to ag/rural economy
• Time is now to close ag connectivity gap
• Russia Invasion Impacting Ukraine’s Crop Storage Capacity, While Black Sea Export Deal in Focus
• Big Brother: Secret Government Surveillance Camera Deepens Private Property Lawsuit
• House GOP members look to shield ag from SEC rule
• The Export Sales Data Snafu – How Did It Affect Markets?
• Thompson on Cotton: Poor Economic News Brings Out Bears
• Rural Mainstreet Economic Index Falls Below Growth Neutral
• USDA Issues Report Showing: Food Insecurity Rates By State
• Wheat Outlook 09.20.2022

09.19.2022

• National Farm Safety and Health Week | Register for Free Webinars
• 8 ways to keep farm families safe
• High Interest Rates and Inflation Dragging Down the Rural Economy
• View From the Cab Farmers Gear Up for Harvest and Beyond
• 7 ag stories you might have missed last week
• Drought Forces Livestock Producers to Make Hard Decisions for Winter
• Oil Down for Third Week; ULSD Drops to 7-Month Low on Recession Fears
• Push made for Senate passage of ag labor bill
• Cattlemen raise concerns with biotech declaration
• EDITORIAL: The enemy within our industry… By National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Don Schiefelbein
• How USDA’s $2.8 Billion Climate-Smart Investment Might Impact Your Operation
• Washington Week Ahead: Senate Ag sets progress on nominees
• Drought Monitor Weekly: Widespread, Isolated Showers
• Ag Economy: Aug. Observations from the Federal Reserve Beige Book
• Five Major Corn Growing Changes Over Next Few Years
• Congressional Subcommittee Debates “Right To Repair” Ag Equipment
• USDA: Agriculture’s Share Of Total U.S. Export Value Climbed To A New High In 2021

09.16.2022

• Export Sales: USDA finally releases mammoth data set | Four weeks’ worth of numbers are out in today’s report
• U.S. Export Sales Report | September 15, 2022
• USDA: Agriculture’s Share Of Total U.S. Export Value Climbed To A New High In 2021
• Ag Groups Praise Deal to Avoid a Possible Rail Strike
• Margin Protection Revenue and Cost Components
• Most Fertilizer Prices Drift Lower, But UAN28 Ticks Up
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Farmers Praise Crop Insurance at Field Hearings
• Who holds the power of purse with USDA’s credit card?
• How USDA’s $2.8 Billion Climate-Smart Investment Might Impact Your Operation
• Ukrainian corn exports cause more waves
• September 2022 WASDE Report (PDF)
• ‘Right-to-repair’ bills languish as time for congressional action dwindles
• Lawmakers raise concerns about broadband map reliability at House Ag hearing
• Judge rules GMO labeling needs more than QR code
• Cotton Program in USDA Partnership
• PepsiCo And ADM Announce Agreement To Support Regenerative Ag Practices On 2 Million Acres
• Here Are The Ag Organizations Receiving USDA Climate Smart Grants
• USDA Reports Organic Trade Reaches $3.4 Billion In 2021
• Nat’l Cattlemen’s Beef Assn Calls for Limited SEC Greenhouse Gas Rule Following Senate Hearing

09.15.2022

• Biden says tentative railway labor agreement reached, averting strike
• September 2022 WASDE Report (PDF)
• Farmers Praise Crop Insurance at Field Hearings
• Citing Demand, USDA More Than Triples Funds for Climate-Smart Pilot Program
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Russia is Weaponizing Fertilizer
• For once, USDA ‘tells it like it is’
• What will be the next market-moving news?
• Farmer asks legislators to support right to repair
• The dangers of unearned net worth
• Topsoil protection should be stressed in the next farm bill, U.S. House Ag panel told
• Vilsack announces expanded Climate Smart Commodities package
• New hay mowers on the market
• Margin Protection Revenue and Cost Components
• USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
• WASDE Wheat: U.S. Season-Average Price Lowered
• Cleveland on Cotton: Business Still Being Done Despite Tightening Demand

09.14.2022

• Winter Wheat Hoping for Rain Next Week
• Farm income, at record high, to moderate through 2027 — FAPRI
• Most Wholesale Nitrogen Fertilizer Prices Rise in August on Wave of Production Curtailments at European Plants
• Utility Tractors Carry Equipment Sales | 100-Horsepower Tractors, Combines Continue to Show Positive Monthly Sales Gains
• Biden announces executive order on bioeconomy
• What are you doing about the recent price rally?
• U.S. corn drops on profit-taking; wheat, soybeans edge higher
• U.S. railways to halt grain shipments ahead of potential shutdown, agriculture sources say
• Agriculture braces for another round of supply chain disruptions if railways, ports strike
• US inflation slows for 2nd month but remains stubbornly high
• Food costs surge again, offsetting gas price drop
• Biden order aims to boost biotech
• USDA to Triple Investment in Climate-Friendly Farming

09.13.2022

• Crop Progress Report 09.13.2022 PDF
• WASDE Report September 2022
• Farmer Sentiment Improves, Producers Still Concerned About Rising Costs, Inflation – Ag Barometer
• USDA projects smaller harvest and tighter supplies for 2022
• Soybeans and Meal Explode on Bullish Numbers From Sept. 12 USDA Reports
• USDA Crop Progress Report: US Corn Harvest Kicks Off Slightly Ahead of Average Pace
• WASDE: Soybean yields shift lower than expected
• La Nina’s swan song
• No ‘cow tax’ urged by legislators
• India Restricts Rice Exports- Stoking Food Inflation Fears, as France, Romania Help Increase Ukrainian Grain Exports
• Washington Week Ahead: SEC chair faces grilling over climate disclosure
• Stabenow vows to maintain farm, food support in next farm bill
• Comparing Net Returns for Alternative Leasing Arrangements
• Ag Trade: Putin Criticizes Black Sea Export Deal; Drought Takes “Hefty Toll” on U.S. Production
• Thompson on Cotton: Managed Funds Watching for USDA Numbers
• USDA: Peanut Price Highlights
• U.S. August Combine Sales Up 26%, Tractor Sales Down 12%
• Farmland Auction Sales Up 50%