A monthly measure of meat exports shows U.S. beef posted another outstanding performance in August, remaining well above last year?s pace. August pork exports increased from the previous month, but were down slightly year-over-year. The U.S. Meat Export Federation...
Monsanto-Fund-signup-for-2018Over $26 million to over 8,000 non-profit organizations since 2010. That?s the national total for the America?s Farmers Grow Communities program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. In Indiana alone, local community non-profits have been...
McKinney Ready to Tackle TradeFormer ISDA director Ted McKinney begins his new role today as Undersecretary of Agriculture for Trade at USDA. In part 2 of his conversation with HAT, McKinney says he is ready to take on the tough task of promoting U.S. agriculture...
Bower-Trading-Market-Strategy-10-9-17In this week?s Bower Trading Market Strategy Report, Jim Bower talks about spreads. He tells HAT marketers should always keep an eye on spreads within a specific commodity and in relation to other commodities.?We know that the...
Two events occurred this past week that should send up a warning flag for American agriculture. While on the surface they may seem unrelated, the response to both needs to be the same. The first is a growing frustration with the NAFTA talks, and the second is the...
Mann Packing will remove the ?non-GMO? label term from select products because the company says it ?doesn?t want to perpetuate a fear that something is wrong with GMOs.? The company is turning an about-face, after getting some products verified under the Non-GMO...
Back on August 30, the Indiana Pesticide Review Board voted to place restrictions on dicamba use in the state. The vote will become law, if it passes a couple more steps in the process. The restriction would be in effect for all dicamba products used for agricultural...
McKinney-last-call-wrap-longThis week Ted McKinney was confirmed as the first ever Undersecretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Affairs. Following his confirmation the first media interview McKinney did was with Hoosier Ag Today?s Gary Truitt. McKinney will...
Another-dry-stretch-comingThe HAT weekly harvest weather forecast update comes on the heels of some rainy conditions for parts of Indiana and accompanying delays in harvest activity. Hoosier Ag Today chief meteorologist Ryan Martin says it does look like the coming...
Efforts underway from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to scale back the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would break repeated promises by President Donald Trump to protect the RFS. As part of a Notice of Data Availability (NODA) published by the agency on...
