Despite smaller plantings, U.S. farmers will harvest the second-largest soybean crop and third-largest corn crops this fall, the Agriculture Department projected, with high demand whittling down the corn stockpile by 8 percent but soybean ...
Tags: Agriculture, Soybean
Harvest is beginning to wrap-up, and the WASDE and Crop Production Reports estimate that yields are still claiming the title of "highest yields on record." The USDA reports that average U.S. corn yields are 173.4 bu/a, down .8 bushel from ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture
Friday's USDA grain stocks and production data didn't hold many surprises for the trade, with carryout numbers falling fairly close to previous estimates, ones that the trade has largely digested. Corn carryout for the U.S. is pegged at ...
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: hog herd, Agriculture
U.S. farmers produced a record-high 13.9 billion bushels of corn last year, but demand from livestock and ethanol producers is helping support corn prices and may provide modest selling opportunities for producers in the coming months, ...
Tags: corn production, corn crop, ethanol usage, feed
Idaho alfalfa hay prices will rise or fall in 2014 based largely on how much irrigation water will be available during the growing season, says Glenn Shewmaker, forage specialist with University of Idaho Extension. "Right now, a lot of ...
Tags: Hay Prices, Idaho Hay Prices Hinge
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Since late last summer, corn prices have fallen dramatically, but distillers grain prices have not. "While corn prices at South Dakota ethanol plants have dropped $1.50 per bushel since August 2, dried distillers grains plus solubles ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Grain
Lower corn prices in 2014 will likely keep a lid on Western hay prices, predicted Seth Hoyt, hay market analyst and keynote speaker at last week's Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV. Supreme alfalfa hay prices, he added, should ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The USDA released its monthly Crop Production and WASDE reports earlier this month and Kansas State University Extension Agricultural Economist Dan O’Brien has been crunching the numbers to see what they portend for grain prices in ...
Tags: Grain Prices, Record Levels
Corn and soybeans were up; cotton was mixed; and wheat was down for the week. As the Christmas season quickly approaches trading volume has reduced substantially with the exception of soybeans which have high volumes when accounting for ...
Tags: Crop Comments
Here's help in deciding how much rent you can afford for land. We've all heard the stories about land rents gone wild:$400/acre.$500.Even$550. Corn and soybean growers have been bidding those rents up,hoping to spread their fixed costs ...
Tags: land rents, machinery ownership, bidding war
Tate and Lyle plc has sounded a note of caution on surging corn prices, which could dampen the group's full-year outlook. Corn prices have leapt in recent months, as the drought in the US and poor weather conditions in central and eastern ...
Tags: Tate&Lyle, corn prices, full-year outlook, weather conditions
Commodities giant Archer Daniels Midland has said it is continuing to increase its investment outside the US in light of the country's drought pushing corn prices up. ADM COO Juan Luciano told analysts yesterday (31 July) the company has ...
Tags: Archer Daniels Midland, investment, corn price, food industry
The price of corn soared yesterday (11 October) after the US government lowered its estimate for the size of this season's yield. In its monthly crop report, the government estimated that farmers will harvest 10.71bn bushels, down from ...
Tags: Corn, price of corn, soybean yield