…grading, laboratory and quality verification programs. The agency also manages the USDA Market News Service, which provides free, unbiased price and sales information on farm commodities, and ensures fair trade…
Agri View: Who Loses in the Event of a Trade War?
…Iowa farmer $120 dollars to raise a hog to market weight. When that trade war talk began to circulate, the cost fell to $100 dollars. Or soybeans. The price fluctuates….
Conaway Comments on Trump Challenging India Market Practices
…the Trump administration, contend that India is under-reporting its market price support for wheat and rice. The U.S. says that India’s market price support for wheat and rice far exceeded…
USDA Projects Smaller Corn, Soybean Crops
…summer growing season weather. The season-average farm price for corn is projected at $3.30 to $4.30 per bushel, up 40 cents at the midpoint from 2017/18. Meanwhile, the U.S. soybean…
First-Ever WTO Counter Notification Against India’s Market Price Support Issued by U.S.
…with India’s notification of its market price support for rice and wheat. These include issues with the quantity of production used in market price support calculations, the exclusion of state-level…
Agri View: Fruit and Vegetable Labor Problem
…is causing this price increase is labor. Farmers are dealing with two problems. Both labor related. In the first place, it is getting harder and harder to find the labor…
Food Price Index up 2.7 Percent
The Global Food Price Index has increased two percent since this time last year. Released last week, the monthly record of global food prices by the Food and Agriculture Organization…
Analyst: Labor Shortages and Volatile Feed Prices Ahead for Meat Industry
…Meat Institute this week there are implications for the meat industry, including a pending labor shortage and possible volatile commodity prices ahead, according to meat industry publication Meatingplace. Close warns…
Farm Bureau to Offer Dairy Revenue Protection Insurance
…available to dairy farmers was inadequate and we saw a clear opportunity to help by specifically addressing the impact of milk price volatility on a dairy farmer’s revenue,” said AFBF…
Rabobank: Corn Prices Could Exceed $4 a Bushel
…drive price volatility and potentially sustain elevated grain prices through the 2018/19 season. The report explains that while demand is staying firm, the projected corn acres and current global corn…
Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Slips in April Report
…agriculture sector, along with a decline in their expectations for future economic conditions. Respondents indicated they are becoming more pessimistic about agricultural trade, citing the declining price expectations for soybeans….
NFU Board of Directors Opposes Current House Farm Bill
…the improvements needed to help farmers cope with continued low commodity prices. The bill fails to provide farmers with the tools they need to be the best possible stewards of…
Groups on House Agriculture Committee Approving 2018 Farm Bill
…price risk management. “It’s important that the Farm Bill process continue moving forward,” said NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern. “As U.S. dairy farmers weather a fourth-straight year of depressed…
Argentina Market Now Open To U.S. Pork
…to the price we received for each animal marketed. “The United States can’t sit on its hands when it comes to trade. Opening new markets, such as Argentina, and expanding…