Bower Market Strategy Report: Weather and Crop Tours Focus of MarketThe observations from the crop tour along with the weather forecast will be the focus of the market this week. With the uncertainty on yields this year, crop tours will gain a lot more attention in...
The new Drought Monitor shows both vast declines and huge improvements in conditions across several parts of the country. Oklahoma is one state showing improvement. Oklahoma was 60 percent drought-free last week, and recent rainfall has shrunk the areas under drought...
Fake news is a hot topic these days. Most of the time the label gets used on political or cultural news stories. Fake news is not really new; it used to be called propaganda, but I guess fake news is more politically correct. There is real danger to fake news and a...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says South Korea has lifted a ban on U.S. poultry and egg imports. That will allow American farmers to resume selling their products to a country that suffered from a shortage of eggs after its worst-ever avian flu outbreak. South...
The National Pork Producers Council applauds the Trump administration for negotiating U.S. pork access to the Argentine market. Argentina was one of several countries with non-science-based barriers to U.S. pork imports. With Thursday?s announcement, trade-dependent...
The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the deadline to submit comments on the Waters of the U.S. Rule repeal effort. The EPA announced Thursday that it, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, will accept comment through September 27. The original deadline...
At the start of the negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement this week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told reporters the deal had benefited many Americans, but it had also failed countless others. Lighthizer noted that Canada and Mexico...
The Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee is echoing his House of Representatives counterpart, saying the goal is to get the farm bill to the finish line by the end of this year. In his home state this week, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas told farmers and ranchers...
Guessing Yield Especially Hard this YearShaun CasteelThe great guessing game is on to guess what corn yields will be. While this is far from an exact science, this year it is especially difficult. Purdue Extension agronomist Shawn Casteel calls them Swiss cheese...
The largest farm groups in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico offered a sign of unity Wednesday over the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation. The American Farm Bureau Federation, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and Mexico?s National Agricultural Council...
