Month: December 2023

An American Farm Bureau economist expects USDA’s hearing on milk pricing could wrap up early in the new year, but the process is far from [Read More]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were mixed, consolidating at the end of the year, with boxed beef mixed at midday. There was [Read More]

Mar. corn closed at $4.71 and 1/4, down 3 centsJan. soybeans closed at $12.93 and 1/2, down 11 and 3/4 centsJan. soybean meal closed at [Read More]

A livestock economist says there could be some record cattle prices in 2024. University of Missouri’s Scott Brown says, “That may take us late spring, [Read More]

USDA says a scientific partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will help protect U.S. plant health from invasive species. The Animal and [Read More]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, pulling contracts to a lower weekly close. Forecasts had an improved chance of near-term rainfall in some [Read More]

The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says 2023 was a good year for the ethanol industry. Monte Shaw tells Brownfield movement from [Read More]

Across the Corn Belt, rain and snow showers linger, mainly from the middle Mississippi Valley into the lower Great Lakes region.  In recent days, cooler [Read More]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures throughout the northern half of the U.S., while cooler-than-normal [Read More]

Farmers paid and made slightly less in November than October. The USDA’s index of prices received was down 0.1% on declines in corn, cattle, hogs, [Read More]