…faces a court challenge by the maker of the weed killer. The Legislative Council approved the Arkansas Plant Board plan to ban dicamba use from April 15 through October 31….
Farmers Are Becoming Less Optimistic About the Future
…last year and the second-lowest of 2017. The decline is driven entirely by producers becoming less optimistic about the future. The Future Expectations Index was recently at 137 in October,…
New Zealand Production Drop Causes Dairy Prices to Rise
…1.6 percent, and butter prices increased for the first time since October. At the previous sale, the GDT index fell by 3.9 percent to a 15-month low. according to GDT…
Agri View: California Disasters
Wine rack from the now burned down Signorello Estate winery in Napa, CA. Apparently glass will melt at 2,600 to 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. by GoldenWupper/October 11,2017 Everett Griner talks about…
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service Pays It Forward with Research Achievements
…a public-private partnership, the database has generated more than 22 million page views by 1.6 million users since coming online October 1, 2016. The database also helps researchers in their…
FSA – A Vital Source of Assistance to America’s Farmers and Ranchers
…June to assist the area and provided livestock producers with an additional feed source. In October, FSA teamed with other USDA agencies to provide assistance to wildfire-damaged areas of northern…
China Needs More Corn to Meet Fuel Mandate
…in China, and ethanol imports to China increased in October. Currently, just 20 percent of fuels in China contain ethanol. Stewart Peterson is a commodity brokerage and analysis firm. The…
Beef, Pork Exports Post ‘Stellar’ November
…October, up five percent from a year ago, valued at $662 million. These were the second-largest monthly totals of 2017, trailing only August. For January through October, exports totaled 1.038…
Global Food Prices Slightly Lower in November
…averaged 175.8 points in November 2017, down 0.5 percent, from October. However, the index is still four points, or 2.3 percent, higher than the same time last year. November saw…
Monsanto Asks Judge to Block Arkansas Dicamba Restrictions
…of dicamba from April 15 through October 31. “Monsanto is losing sales every day the ban remains in effect,” the company says in its court filing. “The losses cannot be…
Post-Harvest Slump in Ag Producer Sentiment
…Current Conditions reading of 129 in November was unchanged from October. (Figure 2). Figure 2. Index of Current Conditions and Index of Future Expectations, October 2015–November 2017. To provide insight…
Trump to Meet with Cruz, Oil Industry, Regarding RFS
…for next week. Cruz and eight other senators from states with oil refineries had requested the meeting with Trump in a letter in October. In the letter, the senators asked…
John Deere Sales and Income Numbers Climb
…$1.57 per share, for the fourth quarter ending on October 29. By way of comparison, 2016 fourth-quarter income attributable to Deere and Company was $285.3 million, or 90 cents per…
South Korea Minister Says No Concessions in Farm-Sector KORUS Discussions
…similar to a comment made by the top Korean negotiator back in October that said the ag sector is a “red line.” The U.S. is looking to narrow the trade…