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With updated quarterly grain stocks data in place, wheat and soybean ending stocks were moved upward and corn stocks slid downward in the agricultural supply and demand estimates report.

The annual county crop and livestock estimates along with the July cattle report and cotton objective yield survey are now history after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the cancellation of those reports.

U.S. soybean ending stocks and if there will be a convergence of conflicting Brazilian soybean production estimates were among the questions ahead of the agricultural supply and demand estimates report.

A commodity group and herbicide formulator called on the U.S. International Trade Commission to reject a petition for tariffs that could be levied on imported 2,4-D from India and China.

If the third time is a charm, Michael Happ might finally make an impression on federal lawmakers and administrators with his fact-filled, 24-page report on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s continued financing of Big Ag’s big manure habit.

I have the tremendous opportunity to work with some of the greatest employees in government and we have the pleasure to work for the American farmer — the original environmentalist, who cares for the land like no other.

There’s not a day that goes by, when farmers aren’t thinking about how to leave the land better than we found it.

We have some water standing on pastures and fields. I had almost given up seeing that this spring. Looks like some other events may follow. Ponds aren’t full, but have been improved.

When word came out of Texas on April 1 that avian flu had made another unwelcome hop — this one from a dairy cow to a human — the news seemed like an April Fool’s joke. It wasn’t.

A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both recently reported outbreaks of avian flu.

The benefits of enrolling in the Precision Conservation Management program were touted during a recent “Toolshed Talk.”

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of skilled workers.

In the months leading up to the prospective plantings report, expectations were a reduction in corn acres, but the reduction well surpassed the trade estimates.

U.S. producers intend to plant more soybean and less corn acres in 2024. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released the survey-based prospective plantings report.

Year-over-year quarterly grain stocks were up across the board midway through the marketing year, according the U.S. Department of Agriculture.