…reasons, allow meat to rest for at least three minutes before carving or consuming. For reasons of personal preference, you may choose to cook meat to higher temperatures. Cook all…
Legislators Educated During California Healthy Soils Week
…a means to highlight “the different ways that we assist and facilitate growers and producers, whether that be helping them increase production or decrease inputs, things along those lines,” Borum…
EU to Lists Objections to Bayer-Monsanto Deal
…Monsanto to make sure farmers still have choice and “affordable prices, both when it comes to seeds and pesticides.” A precise list of objections, however, should allow Bayer and Monsanto…
Wool Exports Increase 24 Percent
…steady world wool production also resulted in record wool prices as indicated by the Australian Eastern Market Indicator. In U.S. dollars, this represented a 30.7-percent increase year-on-year as of early…
USDA Ends Prevented Planting +10 Percent Option
The Department of Agriculture has ended a ten percent higher crop insurance coverage option for prevented planting claims. In a memo sent out to insurers and USDA’s Risk Management Agency…
Corn Market May Need Disruption
A banking official from Nebraska says the market may need “some disruption in production,” to reach higher prices for corn. Tom Jensen of First National Bank of Omaha told the…
Mend, Don’t End NAFTA
…“we emphasized that a U.S. withdrawal would disrupt critical industry supply chains, close markets, eliminate jobs, and increase prices of goods for American consumers.” From the National Association of Farm…
Global Food Prices Slightly Lower in November
…percent. Meat prices were nearly unchanged, and dairy prices fell 4.9 percent in November, but remain 9.6 percent higher than the same time last year. From the National Association of…
State Farm Bureau Study Estimates Cost of NAFTA Withdraw
…for individual agriculture commodities, demonstrating how NAFTA supports commodity prices, but also what the loss of NAFTA could mean. Nebraska Farm Bureau president Steve Nelson says the report shows withdrawing…
Monsanto Asks Judge to Block Arkansas Dicamba Restrictions
…buy inputs for next year. It’s also asking the judge to consider whether or not the Plant Board exceeded its authority. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Expensive Christmas Trees
…it out to pick out your Christmas tree yet, you’ll be in for a bit of a shock. Sticker shock, that is. Prices for a fresh cut tree this year…
International Trade Commission Votes 4-0 in Support of the Biodiesel Industry
…Commerce Department and the ITC in March to address a flood of subsidized and dumped imports from Argentina and Indonesia that has resulted in market share losses and depressed prices…
Post-Harvest Slump in Ag Producer Sentiment
…months (Figure 4). The decline in producers expecting lower farmland prices was accompanied by a small uptick in the share of respondents (21 percent) expecting farmland values to turn higher…
U.S. Rice Production Down, Prices Up
Rice production in the United States is down 20 percent compared to last year, while futures prices for the commodity are up 30 percent from a year ago. Online source…