…the first quarter, more than eight percent of farm loan requests were denied because of customer cash-flow shortages. And, despite a recent uptick in commodity prices, cash-flow shortages have reinforced…
Syngenta Settlement Details Announced
…and resulting in lower corn prices. Syngenta denies that it did anything wrong. If the United States District Court of the District of Kansas approves the settlement, then Syngenta will…
Cargill Still Concerned About Likelihood of Trade War
…official writes in the letter that U.S. farmers will be hurt the most by declining prices linked to China retaliatory efforts, including a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soybeans. Cargill…
Proposed Tariff Hearings Underway in Washington
…tariff response by China. The Montana rancher says the market interruptions can “devastate ag prices and drive U.S. farmers out of business.” The hearings come as the U.S. and China…
OTA Comments on USDA Halting Organic Checkoff Proposal
…dairy and egg prices are flattening “because of USDA’s failure to move the animal welfare rule forward.” OTA says the USDA statement on uncertain industry support is “simply wrong,” adding…
NCC: Farm Legislation Passage Much Needed
…lenders would be reluctant to provide financing to an industry operating at the mercy of weather extremes and volatile global market prices.” He said that a strong farm bill also…
Wheat Growers Talk Farm Bill with Lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
…income of wheat farmers is expected to decline more than 21 percent this year from last year, combining with low commodity prices and a suffering ag economy, all reasons “strong…
Time is Nearly Up for Cotton Ginning Cost-Share Applications
…has been administered by USDA, to help producers respond to the challenging economic conditions and low cotton prices of recent years.” Under the program administered by the Farm Service Agency…
First-Ever WTO Counter Notification Against India’s Market Price Support Issued by U.S.
…bonuses from calculations of applied administered prices, exclusion from India’s notifications of information on the total value of production (VoP) of wheat and rice (information necessary to assess compliance with…
Co-ops Support California Federal Milk Marketing Order
…better address disparities between farm gate prices in California and the rest of the nation.” After USDA’s release of the final decision on March 30th, the three cooperatives held educational…
Food Price Index up 2.7 Percent
…of the United Nations averaged 173.5 points, up 2.7 percent from April 2017. While the prices of most cereal grains and dairy products continued to increase in April, sugar prices…
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…
Biofuels Group Files Lawsuit against EPA’s Pruitt
…and its members. Other biofuels groups have threatened to file lawsuits as well. The group contends that the waivers issued by Pruitt have dropped RIN prices and caused “economic harm”…
Trump Tariffs Impacting Manufactures, Ag and Beer Makers
Ongoing trade disputes, along with President Trump’s tariff efforts are hurting U.S. consumers of steel and aluminum. Market fluctuations in prices are impacting the makers and builders of grain bins,…