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Crops

Trump trade-war aid sows frustration in farm country

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Rochester, Minnesota | Reuters — The U.S. government is paying Texas cotton farmer J. Walt Hagood US$145 an acre for losses related to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies. But Minnesota soybean farmer Betsy Jensen will get just US$35 an acre. Both farmers’ sales have taken heavy blows in Trump’s trade war with China. Neither
Farmer Darrin Eck with his tractor and cotton planter near Harper, Kansas, May 11, 2018.
Crops, News

King Cotton makes a comeback

U.S. farmers in the southern plains are piling into the textile crop after souring on wheat

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Farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma are planting more land with cotton than they have for decades as they ditch wheat, attracted by relatively high cotton prices and the crop’s ability to withstand drought. A 20 per cent increase from last year marks a sharp turnaround for the crop that once dominated the Mississippi Delta into
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Crops, Markets

U.S. corn, soy acreage to expand in 2018-19, USDA says

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Chicago | Reuters — U.S. farmers are likely to expand plantings of both corn and soybeans while reducing wheat seedings for the upcoming marketing year, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday. The USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist forecast that farmers will seed 91 million acres of corn in the 2018-19 crop year, up
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Crops

Monsanto presses against Arkansas’ dicamba limits

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Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto Co. pushed Arkansas authorities on Thursday to reject a proposed April 15 cutoff date next year for sprayings of the agricultural herbicide dicamba, which has been linked to crop damage across the U.S. farm belt. The company further said that Arkansas’ plant board should allow farmers in the state to
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Weather

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

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Chicago/New York | Reuters — Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the south and southeastern parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles.
Manitoba Agriculture land management specialist Marla Riekman (l) and Andrew Wilton and his father Doug Wilton examine the underwear that was planted April 18 and tighty-whities that were planted a foot away a month later after both were exhumed June 29 from Doug Wilton’s oat field between Jordan Siding and Miami, Man.
Crops

Holey underwear shows soil health

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After two months in a zero-till field, this underwear was well on its way to being one with the earth

What a difference two months can make on the weather and tighty-whities buried in the soil. There wasn’t a lot left of the cotton underwear Marla Riekman buried in local farmer Doug Wilton’s zero-till field April 18, when she retrieved it June 29. “We can obviously see a lot of breakdown,” said Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture’s
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Crops

Monsanto threatens to exit India over GM royalty row

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New Delhi | Reuters –– Monsanto, the world’s biggest seed company, threatened to pull out of India on Friday if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds. Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India), a joint venture with India’s Mahyco, licenses a gene that produces its own
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Crops, Markets

Smallest ag markets biggest winners in commodities rout

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New York | Reuters –– Some of the smallest niche agricultural commodities were the biggest winners this year as weather and disease raised concerns about tightening supplies, spurring a buying spree as an exodus of institutional cash punished oil, metals and grains markets. Cocoa, cotton, sugar and frozen concentrated orange juice on ICE Futures U.S.

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