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Iowa farmers face demand gap as production grows
Iowa farmers continue to push productivity higher, but new demand has not kept pace with that growth. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw told members that agriculture is once again facing a familiar challenge: more grain than existing markets can absorb. During his remarks, Shaw pointed to the success of renewable fuels over the past two decades, saying ethanol blends helped create new demand that supported farm income and rural economies. But with E10 now saturated...
Administration steps to strengthen food supply chains
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced more support, resources, and new rules designed to strengthen the American food supply chains. The new actions will promote fair and competitive agricultural markets, prevent abuse of farmers by poultry processors, and make prices...
New Holland brings new methane tractor
Agriculture has played a big role in the environmental sustainability and carbon emissions conversation for years. Director of Commercial Marketing for New Holland Mark Lowery says they have a new look on environmentally sustainable and carbon negative producing...
IBIC brings beef education to the classroom
While we may be getting to the end of May Beef Month, that doesn?t mean we can stop advocating for the beef industry. At the Iowa Beef Industry Council (IBIC), that advocacy comes in many different forms. Arguably the most important among these is beef education,...
2022 Iowa summer drought outlook
We have been worried about the potential for drought in 2022, all the way back into 2021. We are in a situation where every bushel and every acre count. So, what does the author of the Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor think for Iowa?Brad Rippey is a meteorologist for the...
Ambassador Branstad talks about personal relationships in trade
Trade is one of our main focal points in agriculture. Without trade, we have nowhere to ship our goods. While many countries have different cultures which affect how we conduct business, it all boils down to one common foundation: personal relationships. It is much...
U.S. Export Sales Report (5-26-22)
This week?s report was very mild and, frankly, quite boring. Soybeans sales came withing expectations, and new crop corn did as well. Old crop corn sales are becoming, well, old at this point, as evidenced by the fact that they set a marketing year low this past week....
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National FFA Week shares the story of FFA
Each year, FFA chapters around the country take a week to celebrate National FFA Week. What started as a day-long celebration has evolved to now be a full, week-long celebration where members and alumni share what the FFA is and the impact it has on youth around the...
Giving growers options for the planting season
The state of Iowa has seen a wide range of weather outcomes over the past year. Summer 2022 was very dry in western Iowa, while the eastern portion of the state received much more moisture. This winter, northern Iowa has been blanketed by snow while central and...
ERS says 2023 food price increases will slow
Food prices took a significant jump in 2022. At the USDA?s Ag Outlook Forum, Spiro Stefanu, administrator of the Economic Research Service, said the spike was the largest in several decades.?In 2022, food prices rose 9.9 percent,? Stefanu said. ?That's the highest...
NCGA announces Neil Caskey as CEO
The National Corn Growers Association Wednesday announced Neil Caskey as its new CEO. Caskey, who serves as NCGA's vice president of communications, will begin the role of CEO Monday, February 27. NCGA President Tom Haag says, "Neil's experience in agriculture is...
Mexico?s second GMO change in a week escalates USMCA concerns
Earlier this week, we talked with Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig about the proposal Mexico had offered to walk back the GMO ban on yellow corn temporarily and ban its growth in only their country. This was met with skepticism and calls that it was still a...
