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Interesting details can be found in the Canadian grain and oilseed export details, including how performance compares to estimates and who the best customers have been.

Similarities in the ENSO climate pattern led to active starts to the severe storm season in the United States for March 2025 and March 2026.

The Trump administration has delayed the final implementation of the Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems, which the Biden administration finalized just before leaving office. Under the rule, poultry companies would no longer be able to dock a grower's...

Farmers have varied opinions about cover crops. Those who organize the National Cover Crop Survey want to hear all of them before the end of March.

Six biofuel associations urged President Donald Trump to finalize Renewable Fuel Standard volumes, arguing domestic biodiesel and renewable diesel can offset diesel supply disruptions caused by Iran tensions.

Wheat exports were 17% higher than the year before as of the end of January. With prices stalling and input prices rising, the growing list of million-metric-ton export destinations is a bright spot among the crop's challenges.

Despite wildfires engulfing Nebraska and the JBS meatpacking plant shutting down amid a union labor strike in Colorado, the cattle complex was able to hold its composure throughout Monday's trade and end the day higher.

Railroads and shippers chimed in to the recent Surface Transportation Board Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on reciprocal switching.

The U.S. Navy's minesweeping technology is much more sophisticated today than it was during the Vietnam era when the author was a minesweeping officer; but the Navy has a lot less of it and the Iranians will be attacking the Americans with drones.

U.S. export sales and shipments as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA's March WASDE estimate vs. new crop sales also as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA Ag Outlook Forum estimates given in late February.

Safrinha corn planting is slightly behind schedule, a large concern with limited soil moisture and only about two months of the wet season left.

While the corn market has reacted in a positive manner from the renewed concern about dryness in the southern half of Argentina, the sharp fall in the U.S. dollar, rise in crude oil and recent talk about a policy in favor of year-round E15, there are some technical roadblocks...

Commodities brokers advise farmers to develop disciplined grain marketing plans based on production costs, stick to price targets, seek professional guidance and utilize futures and options for effective risk management.

A G4 geomagnetic storm may degrade satellite navigation for some hours and disrupt low-frequency radio navigation. But given this is January and not the middle of spring planting, this storm if it arrives will have negligible effect on U.S. farms.