Maryland farmer Trey Hill pulled in a healthy haul of corn last fall and then immediately planted rye, turnips, clover and other species, which are now spreading a lush green carpet over the soil. While his grandfather, who started the family farm along the Chesapeake Bay, always planted in the spring in a clean field, in Hill’s approach to farming, “you never want to see the ground.”
Read MoreLate last night, the Environmental Protection Agency approved three small refinery exemptions (SRE), reversing one denial from 2018 and granting two for the 2019 compliance year. The EPA granted two 2019 exemptions, which would erase another 150 million gallons of renewable fuel demand.
Read MoreChina said on Monday it was set to approve the safety of another genetically modified (GMO) corn variety and a GMO soybean, both produced by Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group Co Ltd.
Read MoreThe market responded in a bullish way to the January WASDE report for feed grains and oilseeds. Export sales stemming from increased Chinese demand for U.S. agricultural products (e.g. corn and soybeans) is a key factor behind the gains.
Read MoreThere will be an Advanced Corn Production in 2021 meeting on January 28, 2021 at the Scott Center in Winnsboro, LA. The topics are grouped together by similar timing during the production season
Read MoreTightening 2020/21 U.S. and South American corn and soybean production estimates led USDA to slash global ending stocks, powering price growth in the aftermath of USDA’s January 2021 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports Tuesday.
Read MoreThis report contains the results from the 2020 December Agricultural Survey.
Read MoreThis report contains the results from the 2020 December Agricultural, Rice Stocks, and Grain Stocks surveys.
Read MoreLast week, Bloomberg News reported that, “China is far away from meeting its U.S. trade-deal commitments, with the latest data showing it’s imported just over half of the American goods it promised to buy in the first year of the phase-one agreement.
Read MoreCorn and soybean futures propelled higher during the month of December due to dry weather in Argentina, strong export demand for grains here in the United States, a lower U.S. dollar, and aggressive fund buying.
Read MoreBy late fall, much of the Midwest is a pleasing landscape of dry, harvested corn fields. It makes for a bucolic rural scene on highway drives. But the corn litter that’s left over doesn’t seem useful, at least to untrained eyes.
Read MoreThe onset of the new year has been struck with some unfriendly challenges that cattlemen were hoping to be rid of by the end of 2020. However, lo and behold, the cattle business hasn't gotten any easier to see through.
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