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Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 11.04.2024

• Agriculture Made Up 6% Of Total U.S. Import Value
• From Clocks, to Candidates, to Grain Stocks: A Lot of Adjustments This Week
• Why 2025 Corn Prices May Rally
• Farmer says additional restrictions move the goalposts for farmers
• Watching Election From the Farm Field
• Farmers Begin to Reflect on a Season of Surprises
• Production Blog Do | You Consider Farming Fun?
• Consolidation Continues in Seed Industry
• USDA exports – Four more large grain sales announced, November 1 2024
• USDA announces more help for distressed borrowers
• Catch up on the rising number of large farm operating loans, the newly-approved dicamba herbicide alternative glufosinate-P, how Election Day will impact agriculture and more!
• Vilsack: avian flu in hogs different than cattle
• 9 Months: Farm Credit System’s Net Income Up 7%: $5.91 Billion
• Getting Grounded: Soil science education shift challenges USDA conservationist hiring
• USDA Reports 2023 Irrigation And Water Management Data Now Available

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 11.01.2024

• Harvest Crop Insurance Prices Fall Below Spring Guarantees at $4.16 for Corn, $10 for Soybeans
• Oklahoma drought intensifies, threatens forage production, water sources
• Environmental Responsibilities of One of the Largest Feedyards in the Nation
• USDA Oct. 1 Cattle on Feed Report
• Animal Health Officials Further Testing H5N1-Positive Pig
• Mizzou Researchers Test New Vaccine to Protect Cattle from Tick-Borne Disease
• Flash Drought Short-Circuits Rebuild of US Cow Herd
• Commodities Market Impact Weather | More Systems Coming Into Early November
• Tips to navigate strong economic cycles in farming
• Hub farms to put new tech to the test
• Corn futures swayed up and down as U.S. farmer sales of crops from the autumn harvest outweighed strong U.S. export demand.
• Farmer says additional restrictions move the goalposts for farmers
• Are Farmland Prices Really Falling? A Piece of CRP Ground Just Sold for $17,000 Per Acre in Iowa
• Registration is Now Open for USDA’s 101st Agricultural Outlook Forum
• Follow these steps to avoid glufosinate resistance
• RaboResearch Releases New Global Pork Marketing Outlook
• USDA Reports 2023 Irrigation And Water Management Data Now Available
• Restoring Oklahoma’s Tallgrass Prairie, One Step at a Time

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 10.31.2024

• Soybeans Close Up 12¢ | Wednesday, October 30, 2024
• Businesslink | ‘Old Guy’ Reflects on the 1980s and Next Generation’s Cost Crunch
• First US Case Bird Flu Found in Swine
• Vaccine To Protect Cattle From Ticks
• USDA doles out $235 million in disaster aid
• USDA exports – Three additional sales announced, October
• Get a load of these new loaders and excavators
• Repair or trade? Make the right call with your old combine
• Frugal farmer finds weird byproducts for livestock feed
• Family Business Matters Do You Really Know Your Family Members?
• OSHA Fines Missouri Grain Cooperative $242K in Connection With Employee Grain-Engulfment Death
• Farmer says additional restrictions move the goalposts for farmers
• Rep. Smith says extending biodiesel blenders’ credit would create more clarity for producers
• Farmer Endures 20 Years of USDA Regulation Over Half-Acre Puddle
• A Farmer Can Dream, Right? Tesla Robots As the Farm Labor Force of the Future?
• USDA Launches “Food For Opportunity” Program, Will Use Non-Traditional Commodities
• More Than Half Of All Food-Insecure Households Had At Least One Adult Working Full Time

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 10.30.2024

• Farm return on assets is dropping
• Purdue Releases Video Of Dr. Downey And His Contribution To The Ag Sales & Marketing Profession
• Corn, soybeans firmer as harvest winds down
• 4 biggest regrets of retired farmers
• 3 tips to conquer marketing demon
• October 28, 2024 Crop Progress Report
• Corn closes up 3¢ | Tuesday, October 29, 2024
• What’s Going on With the Country’s Corn Harvest?
• Farmer says additional restrictions move the goalposts for farmers
• September cattle placements below a year ago
• Trump Confirms RFK Jr. Would Tackle Food and Health Policy
• Hope For Drought-Stricken Land? Your Winter Weather Outlook
• Technology | A Farmer Can Dream, Right? Tesla Robots As the Farm Labor Force of the Future?
• One more list of seed options Here’s our final list of 2025 corn and soybean options from seed companies.
• USDA Releases Food Price Outlook Report

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 10.29.2024

• Nationally, About 40% Of Farmers Work At Least 200 Days Off The Farm
• Food And Ag PACs Largely Supporting Republicans
• Veteran Ag Journalist Jim Patrico Publishes New Book Dispatches From Farm Country
• USDA Crop Progress: Corn 81% Harvested, Soybeans 89% Harvested as of Oct. 27
• Grain prices slump lower to start the week
• Wind turbines are killing insects, scientists say
• How to maximize your tax opportunities
• Grower navigates strange crop production year
• Re-Election Uncertain for Three Farm Bill Crossovers
• Potential Federal Policy Responses to Negative Grain Farm Incomes
• South America Poised to Expand Soybean Acreage, Further Pressuring Soybean Prices
• Economist says wide spread expansion still not happening in the cattle herd
• Ken Bader, longtime leader of American Soybean Association, dies
• USDA Releases Food Price Outlook Report
• E15 Gasoline Finally Coming to California?

Crop Insurance & Ag News for TX & OK Farmers & Ranchers: 10.28.2024

• Food and Ag PACs Largely Supporting Republicans
• Friday Selloff Ends Mostly Positive Week on Sour Note
• Top 5 Things to Watch Election Looms, Chance of Showers, Tricky Fertilizer Timing
• Traders Let Cattle Contracts Drift Lower Ahead of Cattle on Feed Report
• Follow these steps to avoid glufosinate resistance
• Stop being the quarterback; be the farm coach
• Is embryo transfer worth the investment? A Nebraska cattle producer gives his insights.
• My Generation: Loss has run tragically deep in one farm neighborhood this fall. Here are those stories, and the love that remains.
• Biofuel Producers Shutting Down Without 45Z Guidance
• USDA Confident of Eradicating Virus, Although Bird Flu Count Keeps Climbing
• Kennedy’s Talk of ‘When I Get Inside’ USDA Stirs Ag Unease
• September cattle placements below a year ago
• Farm Economy Steady to Weakening, Fed Says
• Report From USD Analytics Shows Autonomous Tractor Market Up 25% YOY