On Thursday, June 30 at 7:30 a.m., USDA will release its planted acreage report and quarterly stocks estimates. These reports will provide vital market information, as they will detail the actual amount of crop acres planted following the widespread planting delays earlier this year. Checck out Agweb.com for analysis, commentary, and more. For Previous [...]
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Full Coverage of the June 30 Reports
Posted in News, tagged Ag, Bean, Corn, farm, Farming, Report, USDA, wheat on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Surprise? USDA Trims Corn Acreage Estimate
Posted in News, tagged News, farm, Corn, USDA, Ag, Farming, Report, Corn Crop on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Traders have expected the cold, wet spring in the eastern Corn Belt and northern Plains to cut into corn plantings, but seeing lower acreage in a USDA report still seemed to come as a surprise. “New-crop corn is the story,” says Ben Parks, risk management consultant at INTL FCStone, Kansas City. Corn plantings this year will [...]
Federal Government Launches Myplate Icon, Replaces Food Guide Pyramid
Posted in News, tagged Ag, Community, farm, Farming, Food, Health, Healthy Eating, USDA on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin today unveiled the federal government’s new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon with the intent to prompt consumers to think about building a healthy plate at meal [...]
Hot Topics in Ag
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #plant11, Ag, Corn, Dairy, farm, Farming, Hot Topics, Milk, Planting, USDA on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Higher Grain Prices Are Not Slowing Milk Production: Dairy producers are staying in business amid this spring’s delayed corn planting, higher cow numbers and strong milk prices… Read More Time Running out for Corn Planting in Far North In the upper reaches of corn country, the clock is ticking for growers on planting, due to [...]
Corn Planting Progress Way Behind
Posted in News, tagged #plant11, Ag, Conditions, Corn, Corn planting, farm, Farming, fields, Planting, planting conditions, rain, USDA on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. corn planting currently stands at 9% complete according to yesterday’s USDA Crop Progress and Condition Ratings reports. The five-year average for this date is 23%, and last year, 46% of the corn crop was planted by this time. North Carolina and Texas both have more than 60% of the crop planted. Meanwhile, Minnesota, South [...]
Hot Topics in Ag
Posted in Hot Topics in Ag, tagged Bioenergy, Income, Truck, USA, USDA on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Top 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Biofuels Digest has announced its “Top 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” and this year’s top spot goes to Amyris, a renewable fuels and chemicals developer based in Florida… Read More Truck Orders Gain 148%: Orders for Class 8 trucks in North America soared to more than 26,000 in November, jumping [...]
Hot Topics in Ag
Posted in Hot Topics in Ag, tagged Ag, farm, Farmers, Farming, Frontier Equipment, Guardian Sprayers, Hot Topics, John Deere, New Holland, Titan Machinery, USDA on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
USDA Releases Farm Income and Cost Data: The Farm Income and Costs briefing room provides indicators of economic performance for the U.S. farm sector and major crop and livestock farm groups. Farm balance sheet estimates are used by USDA and other public and private sector clients to form a perspective about the financial health of [...]
Hot Topics in Ag
Posted in Hot Topics in Ag, News, tagged Ag News, AGCO, Deere, Farm Equipment, Hot Topics, John Deere, Tractors, USDA on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Deere Projecting Sales to Rise 10-12% in Fiscal 2011, 34% in 1Q: Deere & Co. expects equipment sales to be up 10 to 12% for fiscal 2011 and up about 34% for the first quarter compared with the same periods of the previous year…. Read More USDA Forecasts Net Farm Income to be Up 31%: [...]
USDA Issues New Report On No-Till
Posted in News, tagged Crops, No-Till, Studies, techniques, USDA on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most U.S. farmers prepare their soil for seeding and weed and pest control through tillage—plowing operations that disturb the soil. Tillage practices affect soil carbon, water pollution, and farmers’ energy and pesticide use, and therefore data on tillage can be valuable for understanding the practice’s role in reaching climate and other environmental goals. In order [...]
Why Crop Prices Are Soaring
Posted in Features, tagged Crops, Harvest, News, Prices, Reports, USDA on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The USDA has been full of surprises in their last few crop reports-and this past Fridays was no different. The good corn yields in the northern part of the Corn Belt were not good enough to offset the central and southern Corn Belt yield losses. With an expected average yield now of only 155.8 bushels [...]
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