The week's starting out a dry one -- and likely will end on that note, too -- though while some areas may see mounting concerns on this account, lower-than-normal temperatures will likely prevent the extended rain-free streak from ...
Tags: Corn Belt, Weather Starter, Food
No need to drag out the Carhartts just yet, but be ready for a cooldown in parts of the nation's midsection in the next few days, forecasters say. Remember the polar vortex that swung down into the Midwest a few times last winter, ...
Tags: Midsection, Cooldown, Food
The U.S. corn and soybean crops are developing at a pace ahead of normal despite the fact the last week's seen a slight dip in the condition of both as new forecasts hint at a continued shortage of rainfall in much of the Corn Belt through ...
Tags: Slip, Agriculture, Food
The U.S. corn and soybean crops are developing at a pace ahead of normal despite the fact the last week's seen a slight dip in the condition of both as new forecasts hint at a continued shortage of rainfall in much of the Corn Belt through ...
Tags: Slip, Agriculture, Food
As cooler-than-normal temperatures continue to keep crop stress at bay in the absence of measurable widespread rainfall in the Corn Belt over the last two weeks, Mother Nature's expected to add to the weather-based bearish pressure on the ...
Tags: Conditions, Agriculture, Food
Hammer Strength, a Life Fitness brand, announced it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with DryWear Apparel, LLC. to market a line of base layer clothing with innovative moisture management technology under the Hammer Strength ...
Tags: Hammer, Apparel, Accessories
U.S. farmers have planted a whale of a soybean crop this year, and if that crop reaches fruition, it'll keep the bears fed for some time, analysts and traders say after soaking up Monday's USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks and June Acreage ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Soybean, Corn
Continued rainfall in the east-central Plains and northwestern Corn Belt in the U.S. is just one of several moisture extremes making weather headlines as the week begins. The rain is falling in spots where it's badly needed, and it's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
With the optimum time to plant soybeans either gone or passing soon, many U.S. farmers are rapidly trying to finish corn planting to shift to soybeans. The race is on to get the crop in before the tail-end of the "ideal" dates goes by in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Some rain fell in the parched Plains over the weekend, but it fell short of earlier expectations, while planters finally started rolling in earnest in the Midwest. However, more rain in that region this week -- though needed -- could keep ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, weather
By Heather McTeer Toney, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Southeast will join the rest of the nation and countries across the world in celebrating Earth Day on April 22. The entire month of April is ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Energy
Looking at the market this morning, corn, wheat and beans are all slightly down as we start the 8th day of April. Although the full crop progress report has been delayed by 24 hours, some data has been released at the state level. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Long-term outlooks for weather during the growing season aren't forecasts, meteorologists speaking at the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum reminded listeners Friday. They show the probability of weather being hotter or cooler than normal, or ...
Today, we await a much anticipated WASDE report. Ahead of this release, the markets this morning show wheat on the decline, flirting with 574 while March soybeans remain buoyant in the 1330's. Corn is steady in the lower 440's. Recently, ...
The outlook's flipped, and now one forecaster's calling for a drier Brazil and wetter Argentina moving forward moving through the remainder of South America's safrinha growing season. In a seasonal outlook released this week, Commodity ...