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New boss, same brawls

The fate of the U.S. Farm Bill is far from certain in this new landscape

By Alan Guebert March 3, 2017

The Trump administration’s turtle-slow start with the Republican-led Congress bodes ill for what it and Republicans said would be a busy legislative year. Tax reform, replacing Obamacare, raising the debt ceiling, and a 2018 budget all await initial action. The GOP chairmen of the House and Senate ag committees, however, aren’t waiting on any White

Comment/Feedback, Crops

Huge U.S. corn exports face hurdles: Braun

Record-high stockpiles and looming record crops from rivals are causing headwinds for the crop

By Karen Braun March 1, 2017

The United States appears well on its way to exporting the largest volume of corn in nine years, but there will be some hurdles to overcome in order to meet the full expectation for the season. The United States is the world’s No. 1 source for corn and while not the primary form of domestic

Comment, Comment/Feedback

Comment: Hard numbers and hard politics

Low crop prices and trade uncertainty are a trouble combination looming for 2017

By Alan Guebert January 16, 2017

The calendar may have changed but the numbers all U.S. farmers will work with this new year are little different from the numbers everyone worked with last year. For example, 2016’s corn production was baked-in last fall and so too are most of 2017’s options. We grew a staggering 15.3 billion bu. last year, will

News

Farmers’ markets drive food sector innovation

They offer valuable insights into changing consumer tastes and preferences

By Laura Rance-Unger January 11, 2017

While many view farmers’ markets as an enjoyable and quaint, albeit inefficient, place to buy food, few would characterize them as cutting edge. But small-scale farmers and farmers’ markets are an important source of innovation in the food system because they are a source of direct consumer feedback, Gialuca Brunori, a professor with the department

News, Oilseeds

U.S. soybeans may be headed for 90 million acres in 2017: Braun

The soybean-to-corn futures pricing ratio is far higher than it usually is at this time of year

By Karen Braun January 9, 2017

It is almost certain that U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans in 2017 than ever before, but profitability indicators in the futures market give good reason to believe that this acreage could push much higher than what we have been prepared for. In its annual long-term projections published late last month, the U.S. Department of

Crops

Trump leaning toward Georgia ex-governor to lead USDA

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 3, 2017

Washington | Reuters — Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidate to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump transition team official said on Monday. Perdue, a Democrat-turned-Republican who founded a grain and fertilizer business, served on Trump’s agricultural advisory committee during his presidential campaign. The official

Stock market chart on LCD screen. Selective focus.

Comment

As the year closes, some troubling numbers

Wall Street, the 'Trump bump' and the near future for commodity markets

By Alan Guebert December 21, 2016

If it’s all about the numbers, a journalist’s stock-in-trade, what are the numbers telling this journalist as 2016 fades and 2017 rises? First, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Plowprint Report, issued Nov. 16, “Since 2009, 53 million acres of grasslands — an area the size of Kansas — have been converted to cropland

Opinion

Do we really feed the world?

It’s a moral platitude that papers over a multitude of problems

By Alan Guebert November 1, 2016

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is using this harvest season to solidify its reputation as the biggest not-for-profit policy organization American farmers love to hate. The hatred took root in 1995 when EWG published — on something called the Internet — a 10-year, searchable database of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) payments to all American

Workers assemble the plant-based hamburger patties during a media tour of Impossible Foods labs and processing plant in Redwood City, California.

Livestock, News

Packers put plants on plates

Meat packers can sense the shifting tide and are rebranding themselves as protein companies

By Rod Nickel October 26, 2016

Some major North American meat producers are clearing room on their plates for plant-based substitutes. They’re hedging their bets as consumer tastes shift and high-tech startups seek to create meat alternatives that taste like the real thing. The trend was highlighted on Monday when Tyson Foods, the biggest U.S. chicken processor, took a five per

Comment, Oilseeds

Soybean yields may be major thorn in bulls’ sides: Braun

All signs are pointing to a bin-busting U.S. soybean crop that could upend markets

By Karen Braun October 21, 2016

Expectations surrounding the U.S. soybean crop keep growing. Not only is a reality check in order — in terms of whether such big yields are even possible — but the impact on domestic stocks may be of greater interest. Analysts were expecting soybean yields to rise to 51.5 bushels per acre in the U.S. Department

Daily Network News

Prairie CWRS bids rise, other wheats mixed

More Canadian companies at Agritechnica 2025

Prairie forecast: No real signs of winter yet

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