Last week’s USDA Cattle on Feed report caught most analysts by surprise, with placements up 0.7% from a year ago at 1.842 million head.
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Big price swings have started to become the norm in grain markets.
USDA’s Farm Service Agency helped farmers, livestock producers and foresters weather a tough 2020, marked with a pandemic and natural disaster…
Cash canola prices have increased about $1.50 per hundredweight (cwt) since December, according to Barry Coleman, executive director of the No…
A number of reports released by USDA on Jan. 12 gave rise to prices for a number of commodities, perhaps most notably for soybeans.
Corn and soybean prices continue to help support other commodity prices, including durum, though not quite as much as others.
If the new year is measured in rising commodity prices, then 2021 is off to a great start as sunflower, as well as many other grain commoditie…
The very first column I ever wrote was about a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot who was shot down over Vietnam at age 24. After 75 combat missi…
The farm economy is better than it was a year ago, and 2020 was actually a very good year for farm income, but there are a number of items wor…
Following the release of a number of USDA reports on Jan. 12, commodity prices, notably soybeans, corn and wheat, all saw sharp increases. Cor…
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is excited about some of the proposals included in the state budget introduced by Gov. Kim Reynolds la…
While the market took a day off this past week for the Martin Luther King holiday, the upward trend has taken few days off in recent weeks.
With commodities continuing to rise, market expert Brian Hoops calculates that the stocks to use ratio for corn is the tightest it's been in several years.
There is a widening economic divide in agriculture, according to Lynn Paulson, Bell Bank agribusiness director in Fargo, N.D.
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Cow-calf producers should find plenty of marketing opportunities in 2021.
OMAHA, Neb. — What started out with better than expected sale prices at land auctions prior to fall harvest extended into very strong prices a…
AMES, Iowa — Depending on your family situation and the value of your estate, forming a trust can be an important addition to your farm transi…
Many winter tasks on the farm are part of tax planning. Here is a brief summary of some of the topics to discuss with your tax preparer:
Commodity markets are generally slower over the holidays and prices generally reflect that, but this is a new year and spring wheat prices are…
As commodities continue to rise over the early marketing year, end-of-year projections are on pace to be met.
Similar to other commodity markets, sunflower is enjoying a great start to the New Year with rising prices and that’s putting a smile on the f…
It came as a surprise when corn prices began moving higher after the Iowa Derecho event in August.
Soybeans prices are riding the wave of a bullish rally in early January and corn is being pulled along, though not quite as bullish.
