…totaled 39,000 head, 3 percent above from October 2015. Other disappearance totaled 2,000 head during October, 60 percent below October 2015. Read the full Pacific Region Cattle on Feed Report….
Farmland Prices May Drop 20 Percent
…Creighton University came in at 30.8 for this month – well below the 50.0 rate which indicates a neutral market, although above the 25.0 figure recorded for October. The figure…
More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
…die-off. As a result, in October 2015 California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on the unprecedented tree die-off and formed a Tree Mortality Task Force to help…
Rural Mainstreet Index Still Weak for November
…November fell to 37.9 from October’s 51.1. The state’s farmland-price index tumbled to 45.5 from October’s 39.0. Nebraska’s new-hiring index climbed to 59.5 from 55.5 in October. Nebraska job growth…
U.S. Turkey Production
…production growth since 2012 according to forecasts released in October 2016. Through September, 2016 prices for whole birds at wholesale remained above the trend prior to the 2015 HPAI outbreak….
Pistachio Crop Blows Past Record Estimates
…would have somewhere between 800 million to 830 million pounds.” Matoian said nuts continued to be delivered, and totals flew by those record projections. “As of the middle of October,…
Ranchers see Better Pastures, Tough Markets
…Stone. Although rainfall in October boosted enough grasses to sustain cattle, Stone noted that more storms are needed on his winter range to get creeks flowing to provide drinking water…
Global Food Prices Continue to Rise
…five major food commodity groups. October’s rise was driven primarily by jumps in sugar and dairy prices. The FAO Sugar Price Index rose 3.4 percent in October amid reports of…
Big Increases for Corn, Cotton and Rice
…is up 6 percent from October’s forecast, and up 7 percent from last year. The production forecast is at 250 thousand bales, up 52 percent from last year. Pima cotton…
California Citrus Carry Over from October Forecast
Mark Hudson, USDA/NASS delivered the November citrus crop forecast with the California crop numbers being carried over from the October forecast. Hudson did report the Florida Non-Valencia oranges forecast this…
September Meat Exports Strong
…and based on preliminary October data Korea’s total beef imports from the U.S. also topped Australian beef. For January through September, U.S. beef exports to Japan were up 20 percent…
Beet Curly Top Virus Update
…end of October. There were a total of seventy-one (71) host plant samples collected and sent for virus analysis in August. Only nine (9) of them were positive for curly…
Support for Oklahoma “Right to Farm” Amendment Drops
…49 percent early in October before tailing off to 37 percent later in the month. SoonerPoll did say a relatively high 14 percent of voters who responded to the survey…
November Pumpkin Picking
…in October. So, after Halloween they begin to disappear and prices, you can really buy them on sale and then they are really trying to get rid of them by…