As U.S. farmers are finishing the soybean harvest this week, they were greeted with rising soybean prices, which neared $10.00 per bushel. Prices gained on hopes for more demand from China’s pork producers, who need…
Author: alex Breitinger
Milk Market Frothy
U.S. milk futures are nearing a nine-month high, with prices approaching 17 cents per pound. For U.S. dairy farmers, low-cost corn and soybeans, along with high-value milk, present a golden opportunity, but trouble may be…
Corn Yields Reach New Record
Despite hot and dry weather this summer, U.S. corn yields hit a new record high this year at 175.4 bushels per acre, according to Thursday’s update from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Crop yields have…
Weedkiller Causes War
Farmers are facing a superweed and a super problem dealing with it. The terror, known as pigweed, grows rapidly and produces over 100,000 seeds, allowing it to spread like wildfire, sapping crops of much-needed sunlight,…