Cathy Isom has some hints about how to get your refrigerator ready for all that holiday food. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. National Clean Out Refrigerator Day…
Farm Groups Begin Lame-Duck TPP Push
…“When implemented, TPP will help ease the pain of low prices by expanding demand for our wheat in those markets. Now more than ever, we cannot afford to lose even…
Ranchers see Better Pastures, Tough Markets
…so much feed on the ground currently, there’s even less demand for hay, keeping that market down, he said. “These prices really rocked us pretty good,” Stone said. “We went…
Global Food Prices Continue to Rise
…butter, as a result of sustained internal demand in the European Union after a period during which stocks were drawn down. By contrast, the FAO Oils/Fats Price Index declined 2.4…
Acreage Planting Switch Possible in 2017
…acreage switch will be determined in part by crop demand for those commodities in the new year. Producers saw an unusually good planting window in 2016, but a return to…
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Research Beneficial to Agriculture
…mind-boggling. One of the amazing things I saw was a project called “Advanced Light Sources.” It’s an advanced X-Ray system in high demand for a number of innovative research projects….
Peterson Named U.S. Wheat Associates President in 2017
…organization’s strong service to American wheat farmers and their overseas customers.” “Protecting and expanding export demand for wheat has always been critical, but never more so than in this depressed…
September Meat Exports Strong
…to bolster pork demand in Mexico continue to pay dividends, as per capita pork consumption has increased nearly 20 percent since 2011 and now exceeds 40 pounds per year. Another…
Thanksgiving Dinner Savings
…few weeks away, but that Thanksgiving meal might give you a stomach ache thinking about how much this big holiday meal is going to cost you. The average price of…
A Big Investment to Stimulate Overseas Beef Demand
…more overseas demand for American beef. With strong encouragement from state beef council partners, the Federation will invest $940,000 from its reserves to promote beef in several overseas markets. For…
Agri View: Holiday Traditions
Everett Griner talks about our original holiday of traditions in today’s Agri View. Original Holiday Traditions Thanksgiving, the original American holiday. Thanksgiving started the idea of traditional food. Turkey and…
Feed Wheat Demand Could Ease Storage Crunch
Grain handlers are anticipating an uptick in orders for feed wheat, which should allow them to move excess wheat inventories as farmers bring in a record fall harvest. A new…
Farm Lending Declined in Third Quarter 2016
…for operating expenses continued to drive the demand for new loans. So far in 2016, loans used to finance operating expenses total about 70 percent of all non-real estate farm…
October Dairy Market Report
…long slide in U.S. exports could be bottoming out and a modest recovery is under way. World demand for imported dairy products has picked up recently, and world dairy product…