Ag News

04.04.2022

• Washington Week Ahead: Shipping reforms at stake, SCOTUS nomination to move
• 5 graphs to explain USDA’s 2022 planting forecasts
• NOAA Drought Outlook Monthly – April
• Drought Monitor Weekly: Heavy Rains Bring Broad Improvement
• Commodity Markets Await Cavalry USDA’s Planting Intentions Report Fails to Deliver Cavalry to Commodity Markets
• Ag Weather Forum April Forecast Includes Potential Risks for Frost in Parts of Corn Belt
• Phosphorus Fertilizer Timing Matters
• USDA Livestock Disaster Aid Details
• 7 ag stories you might have missed last week
• Robot crop scout could drive faster, better input applications
• Corn, soy mixed on oil selloff and updated acreage forecasts
• Are biofuels the answer to Russia-induced gas prices?
• Full Senate passes Ocean Shipping Reform Act
• 10 shop organization ideas from All Around the Farm
• Growth Energy CEO disappointed biofuels were absent in Biden energy announcement
• Ukraine March Grain Exports Four Times Less than February
• Senators Urge CRP Flexibilities; Russian Wheat Exports Continue, While War Worsens Hunger in Africa
• Straight from Ukraine: Farmers Share Planting Updates, Concerns and More
• Will USDA Tap CCC to Send Fertilizer Price Aid Payments to Farmers?
• Prepare for estate planning meeting
• Brownfield Ag News Introduces Weekly Commodity Market Update

04.01.2022

• Grain Stock Report March 31, 2022
• Prospective Plantings March 31, 2022
• USDA Livestock Disaster Aid Details | Disaster Payments Coming for Drought-Stricken Livestock Producers Hit by High Feed Costs in 2021
• USDA report is a game-changer for corn
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot | Farm Credit Rates
• US Ethanol Stocks Climb US Ethanol Demand Down 2.1% on Week; Stocks Near 2-Year High
• USDA: Soybean acres to surpass corn for third time ever
• Margin management: The lender’s role in farm business
• John Deere expands access to self-repair resource service
• Vilsack makes 3 USDA announcements at 2022 Commodity Classic
• Farmers made and paid more in February
• EPA expands the use of Enlist products for the 2022 growing season
• NCBA response to Bill Gates advocating for synthetic meat
• “Serious Threats” to Global Food Security, While 2022 Grain Harvest in Ukraine Could Fall by 55%
• Senators reject trade agenda without free trade agreements
• Crop Planting Report has Peanuts, Corn Down and Other Crops Up for this Year
• CoBank: War In Black Sea Region Likely To Shock Grain Markets For Several Years
• Facts To Consider About The "Dirty Dozen" List

03.31.2022

• President’s Budget Recognizes Crop Insurance is Key to Farm Safety Net | Crop Insurance in America
• DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends DAP Fertilizer Price Index Sets Record at $1,014 Per Ton
• Wheat Falls as Russia-Ukraine Hold Talks, While War Reshuffles Trade and Budget Priorities
• Grains rebound ahead of big USDA report
• USDA Reports Preview | USDA Reports Preview: Corn, Soybean Planting Intentions May Find Competition This Spring
• Prospective Plantings point to 2022 acreage expansion
• Tai defends Biden’s trade agenda
• Margin management: The lender’s role in farm business
• U.S. looks at adding more ethanol to gas to lower pump price – sources
• Vilsack makes 3 USDA announcements at 2022 Commodity Classic
• Details released on updated cattle market bill with regions, mandated cash trade
• Ag economist expects higher U.S. crop acreage for 2022 season
• Consumer perceptions of regenerative agriculture
• Details of new cattle market bill highlight difference between voluntary, mandatory approach
• Statement by Secretary Vilsack on the President’s FY 2023 budget
• Biden’s USDA Budget Proposal Seeks Big CRP Boost with $2.4B to Enroll Targeted 27 Million Acres
• Research At Kansas State Discovers Destressing Benefit From Feeding Cattle Industrial Hemp
• New Study: Nearly Half Of Americans Worry About Feeding Their Households Due To Inflation & Rising Costs Of Groceries

03.30.2022

• Farmers Regain Enlist Access EPA Restores Enlist Herbicide Access to 134 Previously Banned Counties
• 4 Potential Surprises for the March 31 Prospective Plantings Report
• ClearFlame CEO Plans to Put Ethanol-Powered Diesel Engines in Ag Equipment, Portable Generators
• SCOTUS will hear Prop 12
• Wheat falls on rain and ceasefire hopes
• Broad commodity selloff continues
• Grassley-Fischer update cattle market reform bill
• Biden’s proposed ag budget focuses on climate
• Details released on updated cattle market bill with regions, mandated cash trade
• February cattle placements up 9%
• Agreement creates long-term certainty in the Japanese market
• Farm custom rates likely to increase | Some custom rates in 2022 are expected to increase by about 7 percent
• China Can’t Control Latest COVID-Outbreak, and It Could Now Constrict Containers at World’s Busiest Port
• American Agri-Women Decide Legislative Policy Positions

03.29.2022

• Senator: farm bill discussions continue
• RaboResearch Releases Annual Price Outlook Report for U.S. Crops
• Senators Fischer, Grassley, Tester, Wyden Unveil Updated Cattle Market Reform Bill
• Fed increases interest rates, further increases could be looming
• President Biden proposes FY 2023 budget, includes funding increases for USDA
• Statement by Secretary Vilsack on the President’s Fiscal Year 2023 Budget
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• 4 Potential Surprises for the March 31 Prospective Plantings Report
• Dig into the latest USDA report
• Will old crop supplies last?
• Traders begin to mull prospective plantings
• Covid concerns creep back into the picture
• Planting has started, but progress is delayed by weather and parts
• February cattle placements up 9%
• AgMarket.Net forecasts U.S. corn acreage at 90.7 million, soybeans at 89.8 million
• Farm Bureau says Prop 12 could have implications beyond pork industry
• Farm Inflation: Fertilizer, Food, and Equipment Manufacturing
• “The Impact (on Global Markets) is Direct, Dramatic and Large. And it Continues,” Ukraine’s Ag Minister on Ag Exports
• China Issues New COVID-19 Lockdowns: Could it Create New Demand Risk?
• Inflation Already Costing Consumers, USDA Makes Large Upward Revisions in Food Price Forecast
• U.S. Diesel Exports Increase
• From Shockers To Snoozers, Here Are The Big Takeaways From FBN’s Farmer Planting Survey
• “It’s Going to be Real,” President Biden on War-Related Food Shortages

03.28.2022

• Washington Week Ahead: Biden releases new budget, Tai faces senators
• Jerry Gulke: Will Governments Interfere with Price Volatility?
• Inflation Already Costing Consumers, USDA Makes Large Upward Revisions in Food Price Forecast
• Compare and Contrast: Acreage Predictions Roll In
• Farmers Prepare for Spring Planting Amid Global Upheaval, Drought, Input Stress
• MachineryLink Equipment Roundup: Tractor Zoom, Bobcat Offer New Tools; CNH Unveils New Tech Center
• Energy losses stifle corn, soy gains
• 7 ag stories you might have missed last week
• Grains close last week with a win
• Ukraine’s grain export situation worsening by the day, says agriculture minister
• February cattle placements up 9%
• Agreement creates long-term certainty in the Japanese market
• AgMarket.Net forecasts U.S. corn acreage at 90.7 million, soybeans at 89.8 million
• Free week of webinars address current issues in the seed industry business
• Corn growers call on Biden Administration to maintain access to lower-cost fuel
• “The Impact (on Global Markets) is Direct, Dramatic and Large. And it Continues,” Ukraine’s Ag Minister on Ag Exports March 27, 2022
• 4 of 10 Rural Bankers Project Jump in 2022 Farm Income
• Cleveland on Cotton: “The Bull Is Still in the Fattening Process”
• Peanut Stocks: Utilization Up Less Than 1%; 4.56Bln Pouinds in Storage
• USDA Announces More Resources to Increase and Expand Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity
• AgFunder Reports Investment In AgriFood Innovation Was Double 2021, $51.7 Billion
• USDA Reports Cattle Placed In Feedlots Up 9% Over 2021