The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) granted railroad drivers a 5-year exemption from FMCSA’s 14-hour, 60-hour, and 70-hour rules, based on an application submitted by the Association of American Railroads, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, and member railroads.
Read MoreWelcome to the 2021 Virtual Rice and Soybean Production Meeting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its related protocols, the LSU AgCenter is having to provide information to our stakeholders in different ways.
Read MoreAs analysts continue to digest what the latest USDA reports could mean for prices in the coming months, one thing is certain: soybean stocks to use is record tight. “I think it is the largest revision and one of the largest surprises ever, and the quarterly stocks number sets the market off for a lot of price adjusting to do looking out into 2021,” says Bill Biedermann of AgMarket.Net.
Read MoreThe new year got off to a big start for U.S. soybean trade, with sales and shipments to China totaling nearly 2 million metric tons for just the first week in January, according to the latest trade data.
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 MoreIntegrating winter cover crops into an agricultural system is not new, but the potential for improved soil health and crop production have renewed producer interest over the past decade. According to a recent U.S. Department of Agriculture survey, cover crop acreage increased by 50% between 2012 and 2017 across the United States and includes expansion of acreage in the Mid-South.
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 More2020 ended on a high note for soybean prices. Contracts soared past the $13 mark, making a memorable ending to 2020. Even though the start to 2021 was a little rocky, as soybeans traded 40 cents off the highs at one point Monday, analysts say there’s still hope for higher prices in the new year.
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 MoreU.S. soybean future prices are on the rise amid continued Chinese demand and concerns of tight global supplies, putting markets in a “rationing” mode, according to a Cargill executive.
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