by Riley Smith | Mar 24, 2025 | 5 Ag Stories, News
A team of livestock and grain producers recently traveled with the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) to Monterrey, Mexico, to participate in the Expo Carnes trade show and for a firsthand look at market conditions. Held every other year in Monterrey, Expo Carnes is...
by Riley Smith | Mar 21, 2025 | 5 Ag Stories, News
It was a fairly quiet week in the ag marketplace, and that’s largely because of the fact that the grains are waiting for the Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Grain Stocks reports. As we get closer to the end of the month, many analysts are predicting what we might...
by Riley Smith | Mar 21, 2025 | 5 Ag Stories, News
America’s largest biofuel trade association just got a little bigger. Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy, talks about their newest member. Cory Reed, president of John Deere’s Worldwide Agriculture & Turf Division, said that the company, which is best known for...
by Riley Smith | Mar 20, 2025 | 5 Ag Stories, News
This week’s export sales contained some good and some bad, which has the markets moving in several different directions. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride said the corn export sales almost set a weekly record. On the other hand, the soybean export totals for...
by Riley Smith | Mar 20, 2025 | 5 Ag Stories, News
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is set to expire this year if Congress doesn’t take action. Dustin Sherer, director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said that letting the TCJA expire would have significant impacts to agriculture and...
