manure emissionsFarm and livestock groups will continue to fight for an exemption from emergency reporting of manure emissions, after the EPA lost a federal court decision to environmental groups that sued over the exemption.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC...
Demand already looks good for the 2017 soybean crop. China is the number one purchaser of U.S. soybeans, buying 60 percent of American soy exports every year. The U.S. Soybean Export Council, along with several American and Chinese organizations, will host a Chinese...
While Arkansas farmers are in the very early stages of a 120-day moratorium on using dicamba, Missouri farmers may have a much shorter time to wait for their delay to end. Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn told Agri-Pulse that the department?s intentions are for the...
18 agriculture groups representing the majority of production agriculture sent a letter to the Trump administration recommending it avoid placing restrictions on steel and aluminum imports. The groups are worried that such a move would negatively impact U.S. food and...
Western stress moving marketsStress to the crops from hot and dry conditions led to a surge in the corn, soybean and wheat markets Monday. Hoosiers haven?t experienced the hot and dry, but they have in the west. HAT chief meteorologist Ryan Martin attributes that to...
Is Crop Insurance Worth Fighting For?At Farm Bill listening sessions in Indiana and around the country, crop insurance is being promoted by farmers as their top priority in a new Farm Bill. However, there remains considerable opposition in Congress. The Trump...
The continued surge of a piglet-killing virus in Canada is starting to threaten a share of pork supplies in the U.S. Fifty cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, have been confirmed in Manitoba between May 1 and July 4. The virus has affected over 63,000...
More Risk Premium On the WayBen KaschFor the past two weeks, the futures market has been adding a lot of risk premium to prices, and the weather forecast continues to predict less than ideal crop conditions. In this week?s Bower Trading Market Strategy report, Ben...
The European Union and Japan formally agreed to the outline of a free trade deal. America?s pork producers want to know why the U.S. is not moving on its own bilateral deal with Japan, the highest value market for U.S. pork exports. They say that, now that the...
After taking a real public whipping during the 2016 election, trade is slowly crawling back to the surface as an economic tool that has benefits for the U.S. economy. Even President Trump, who a year ago vowed to tear up NAFTA and back out of TPP, is now...
