Blogs

POET will invest $30 million to reopen an ethanol plant in Cloverdale, Indiana, that the company had idled in 2019.

AAFC's May supply and demand estimates included a lower revision for both canola exports and crush, while the cumulative pace of movement shows both are ahead of the pace needed to reach the previous month's estimates.

Obvious concerns of rising input costs and a wavering economy have cattlemen of all sorts holding their breath, but export demand has continued to be stellar. Given how drastically beef cows have been liquidated, the drop in production, via marketable calves to sell, is going to...

North Dakota and the surrounding areas that extend into Canada have been very wet this spring, forcing delays in spring planting. A drier stretch of weather may get planters rolling a little faster this week, but the window will not stay open long.

On Tuesday, USDA Rural Development put out a news release about $770 million for 154 investments in rural business in 36 states and Puerto Rico. A big chunk of the funding, more than one quarter of all the loan guarantee funds, went to buy, refinance, construct or remodel...

BASF is on track to commercialize a Bt soybean trait targeting SCN by the end of the decade.

Nonstop rain and overland flooding in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota are dampening the hopes of farmers wanting to get all their intended wheat, durum and other crops planted.

Speculator selling briefly took July hogs below $100, but it looks like packer demand responded quickly to help prices regain support.

It's been a tough 2022 for U.S. farmers in the market for equipment. Farm equipment prices -- new and used -- are only going up while supplies are going down.

Demand for labor is strong, but the labor force participation rate still hasn't returned to where it was before the pandemic. Should the boomers be blamed?

Southern Brazil has escaped the greatest risk of frost this week thanks to cloud cover and elevated winds. Skies clear out and calm down for Friday and Saturday, which may still bring morning frost to portions of southern Brazil's safrinha corn crop.

Long-term CME soybean meal/corn ratio on per ton basis with average and plus and minus one and two standard deviations from January 1990 to the present.

A recent report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City finds that a record number of operating loans surpassed $1 million in the first quarter of 2022, reflecting soaring prices for inputs.

During an international video meeting of agricultural journalists this week, a Ukrainian ag journalist gave a glimpse of some of the challenges farmers as well as journalists are facing in his country after the Russian invasion.