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The USDA’s condition ratings for corn and soybeans dipped slightly last week. After a too wet start to the planting season, development conditions have turned too dry in some key U.S. growing areas. As of Sunday, 95%...
The USDA says that while soybean export inspections have improved in recent weeks, the 2018/19 pace continues to trail 2017/18. As of the week ending August 15th, corn and sorghum also trail last marketing year’s pace,...
Farm Service Agency Administrator Richard Fordyce says the MFP2 payments are on schedule to go out as soon as next week, “Sign-up began a week ago last Monday and we’ve had overwhelming, as you can imagine, overwhelming response to...
STORY Correction: This is the same suit filed earlier this year, not a new lawsuit as previously reported – JH The lawyers for two groups who filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its approval of XtendiMax,...
For a second time, two groups have filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its approval of XtendiMax, Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide. The National Family Farm Coalition and the Center for Food Safety sued the EPA’s approval of XtendiMax...
ACE CEO Brian Jennings The CEO of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), Brian Jennings, says it’s “time to get angry” over the Trump Administration’s RFS waivers. “Had the 2016 presidential election turned out differently, and had...
The USDA says China bought U.S. ag goods during the week ending August 8th, but also canceled on some previously purchased commodities. This activity all occurred during a week in which tariff tensions between the U.S. and China flared...
The Senate might bring a compromise bill limiting President Trump’s tariff powers to the floor this fall. There are two similar bills that would restrict the President’s use of Section 232 national security tariffs including steel and aluminum tariffs. A Senate...
Ethanol production and stocks both moved higher last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.045 million barrels a day, up 5,000 on the week, the second week in a row with an increase even...
The U.S. Trade Representative says there will be some exceptions to the list of Chinese products facing a 10% tariff beginning September 1st. Robert Lighthizer’s office says they will conduct an exclusion process for cell phones, laptop computers, video game consoles,...
