…tariff-rate quotas at question include tariffs for wheat, rice, and corn. The request was initiated by the Obama administration last year, and the Trump administration is moving forward with the…
Economic Study Shows Renewable Fuel Standard Added to Price of Corn
A new economic study shows the Renewable Fuel Standard has added a third to the price of corn and saved the U.S. nearly 18-billion in gasoline costs. The Iowa State…
New Drought Monitor Shows Both Improvements and Declines
…southern Michigan could pick up a good, soaking rain, it would help with “filling corn and soybeans in the driest regions.” From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Ethanol Production May Outpace Demand in Future
…outlines how an ethanol market fueled by corn prices at multi-year lows, together with reinvestment into expanding production capacity, will push supplies past demand growth. A Cobank senior economist says…
New Academic Journal Study: RFS Offers Substantial Benefits to U.S. Economy
…the RFS, the model found corn prices would average just $2.75 per bushel in 2015, far below the cost of production. However, with the RFS in place, corn prices averaged…
Lighthizer: NAFTA Costing Jobs, Failing Americans
…businesses that have closed or moved because of incentives — intended or not — in the current agreement.” Although Americans send billions of dollars in corn, soybeans, and poultry across…
Cotton Board Holds Annual Meeting
…on over 5,000 acres in Pointe Coupee Parish for the last 30 years. In addition to cotton, his crops include corn, soybeans, wheat, sugar cane, pecans, crawfish, and timber. He…
U.S. Feed Grain and Ethanol Exports Up
…year-over-year to 49.9 million tons (1.96 billion bushels), already exceeding export totals for the last five marketing years. U.S. corn exports to Japan, the traditional top customer of U.S. corn,…
Wall Street Journal Names Agriculture a NAFTA Issue to Watch
…process. Noting that corn, beef and pork producers are happy with the current NAFTA, The Wall Street Journal points out that disagreements over agriculture can quickly turn bitter in trade…
Farm Machinery Stocks Drop After USDA Reports
…All crop yields except corn have collectively increased since 2016, according to the USDA report Thursday. While corn production dropped seven percent from 2016, soybean production rose two percent, cotton…
Farm Labor Shortage May Drive Produce Prices Higher
…other crops because it’s much harder to preserve, especially compared to commodities like corn and grain. California lettuce farmers were actually hit hard by those spring rains that ended the…
August USDA WASDE Report Released
…Corn production is forecast at 14.2 billion bushels, down 102 million from the July projection. The season’s first survey-based corn yield forecast, at 169.5 bushels per acre, is 1.2 bushels…
USDA Reports Preview
…USDA baseline. Pro Farmer’s Brian Grete says corn yield will likely be in the mid-160 range. The Gulke Group’s Jerry Gulke says the likely corn yield estimate will be near…
Western View: Teosinte and GMO Foods
…just stretched out over hundreds of years. Eventually maize became corn. Today’s corn has been even more improved, with better yields, better cobs, many more uses. Corn is not alone…