As we enter the year 2014, I am sure many of you have established personal or business-related goals for the coming year. I know the whole New Year's Resolutions issue can be very exciting to some as we set such lofty goals as weight loss, ...
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Multiple winter storms kept temperatures below normal for the month of December and brought winter precipitation of all types, according to today's Oklahoma Crop Weather report issued by the USDA-NASS Oklahoma Field Office. December 5-6 a ...
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Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.20 and 1/2, down 1 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybeans closed at $12.87, down 25 and 1/2 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $423.80, down $13.90 Jan. soybean oil closed at 38.51, ...
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The transition to lower prices is occurring differently for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Corn and wheat prices have come under the most pressure due to large U.S. and/or world crops in 2013. Soybean prices have remained higher due to strong ...
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In a recent Slate article, ASU professors Jim Elser and Bruce Rittman presented two vastly different scenarios of the future. One depicts a world teeming with food insecurity due to rising fertilizer prices and decreasing crop yields and ...
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China's wheat imports are expected to hit a nine-year high in 2013, as the country continues to turn to the international market to meet a surging demand for the grain for use in high-protein foods, animal feed, industry and processed ...
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Cotton acreage in the Mexican region of Sierra de la Laguna is estimated to rise from 5,800 hectares to 15,000-20,000 hectares, during 2014, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock (SAGARPA) of Mexico’s ...
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Prices for calves, feeder cattle and finished cattle have set some new records this fall and early winter. A combination of circumstances has precipitated these historic prices. There is currently a lot of cautious optimism on the part of ...
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Because of its capital requirements, ranching isn't always the easiest business for younger men and women looking to run their own cattle. However, you can lease farmland, machinery, and other big-ticket pieces of a crop farm -- why not ...
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Beef cattle producers who want boost their profit potential and become more competitive in the cattle industry can learn how by attending the 2014 Ohio Beef Cattle School series Jan. 28, Feb. 18 and March 11, 2014, taught by experts from ...
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The executive director of the Canadian Pork Council says a constitutional challenge has helped reshape American attitudes on U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling. In may, in response to a World Trade Organization order to amend ...
There's some optimism that the dispute over US country of origin labeling could be resolved through the development of the new US farm bill. "They're working on it very hard right now, trying to get their farm bill done. We feel there's a ...
Soybeans closed higher Friday. DTN cites buying late in the session, the result of USDA's bullish export sales figures for soybeans. That may have been even more bullish, except for a general distrust of USDA's estimates, and of China's ...
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Iowa's livestock sector continues to help support the state's economy by adding 20,500 jobs within the past decade, according to the recent United Soybean Board-funded Animal Agriculture Economic Analysis. A successful animal ag industry ...
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The USDA released its last Cattle on Feed report of 2013 this past Friday and it showed the number of cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 10.7 million ...