USDA: Over The Next Decade, Crop Prices Are Projected To Fall, Livestock Prices Rise
Recently released USDA projections reveal expectations for U.S. crop prices to decrease over the next 10 years while prices for major animal products, except hogs, are forecast to increase. Expected declines for crops follow a period of generally higher prices that have peaked during the current marketing year. The price-bolstering effects of economic recovery, renewed export demand, and logistical problems in supply chains are forecast to subside after the recent peak during the 2021/22 marketing year, and crop prices are forecast subsequently to return to the earlier pattern of generally lower prices through 2031.
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USDA Issuing Approximately $270 Million in Pandemic Assistance to Poultry, Livestock Contract Producers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun issuing approximately $270 million in payments to contract producers of eligible livestock and poultry who applied for Pandemic Assistance.
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Higgins, Comer & Oversight Republicans: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Plays Politics with Americans’ Food Supply
Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Oversight Republicans called on U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to delay the implementation of President Biden’s vaccine mandate for USDA employees until the department can explain how it will make up for the potential loss in staff. The Republican lawmakers express concern with current vacancies at the Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the vaccine mandate’s potential to impair our economy, food supply, and national security.
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USDA Invests $86 Million to Improve Equitable Access to Jobs, Business Opportunities, Education, Health Care and Housing for Rural People
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Department is investing $86 million to improve equitable access to jobs, business opportunities, education, housing and health care for people who live and work in rural areas.
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USDA grant expands Louisiana Central’s Beginning Farmer/Rancher Program
The USDA awarded a $491,212 multi-year grant to Louisiana Central that will create more opportunities for farmers and ranchers and increase the availability of locally sourced food.
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Availability of Low Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters
Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses.
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Build Back Better Act Would Hurt Rural America
The American Farm Bureau Federation sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives today stating its opposition to the Build Back Better Act, also known as the reconciliation package.
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EPA Administrator Issues Warning: Agriculture And Big Oil May Not Be Happy With Impending RFS Announcement
The wait may soon be over for the future of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). After a long-awaited decision from the Biden Administration, Pro Farmer's Jim Wiesemeyer reports EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the blending requirements won't favor oil or agriculture. These comments led to more chatter a RFS announcement may finally be coming.
It's been rumored and reported since summer, and then again in September, that the Biden Administration was planning to cut biofuel blending obligations within the RFS. But since the reports, no announcement has been made.
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Louisiana Pecan Prices: Very Light Deliveries, Elliot Prices Improve
The weather forecasted for this week shows cool but mostly mild sunny temperatures with daytime highs in the low to mid 70s and late evening temps mostly in the mid 50s. It will cool down a few degrees more by Monday, November 15.
Prices for Elliotts were higher.
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WASDE Cotton: Domestic Production Slightly Higher
This month’s 2021/22 U.S. cotton estimates are largely unchanged from October. The U.S. production forecast is slightly higher, at 18.2 million bales, while domestic mill use and exports are unchanged. U.S. ending stocks are 200,000 bales higher at 3.4 million—19 percent of use—and 250,000 above the previous year.
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WASDE Rice: Higher Domestic Use, Lower Exports
The outlook for 2021/22 U.S. rice this month is for increased supplies, higher domestic use, lower exports, and larger ending stocks. Supplies are raised as NASS increased rice production by 3.3 million cwt to 193.8 million, all on higher yields. The all rice yield is forecast at a record 7,756 pounds per acre, up 131 pounds from the previous forecast. Record yields are forecast for Arkansas, California, Mississippi, and Missouri.
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Vilsack Talks Ag Issues At Climate Conference
The Biden administration made the case at the COP 26 conference in Scotland that agriculture and forestry can provide a solution for mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions by incentivizing farmers to sequester carbon. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the administration’s goals to lower emissions from farming and ranching during a panel discussion at the conference Friday.
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2021 Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections Underway
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin mailing ballots this week for the Farm Service Agency (FSA) county and urban county committee elections to all eligible agricultural producers and private landowners across the country. Elections are occurring in certain Local Administrative Areas (LAA) for these committee members who make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally. To be counted, producers and landowners must return ballots to their local FSA county office or be postmarked by Dec. 6, 2021.
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Pandemic Response And Safety Grant Program
The Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant Program provides grants to specialty crop producers and processors, other select producers, meat and other processors, distributors, and farmers markets to respond to coronavirus, including for measures to protect workers against novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID–19).
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2021 Farm Service Agency County Committee Elections Underway
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will begin mailing ballots this week for the Farm Service Agency (FSA) county and urban county committee elections to all eligible agricultural producers and private landowners across the country. Elections are occurring in certain Local Administrative Areas (LAA) for these committee members who make important decisions about how federal farm programs are administered locally. To be counted, producers and landowners must return ballots to their local FSA county office or be postmarked by Dec. 6, 2021.
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