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11 Jan 2022
ATLANTA (DTN) -- USDA will partner with commodity groups to double the amount of corn and soybean acres that also use cover crops during the next eight years. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack used a speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation on Monday to announce a new initiative with the United Soybean Board, the National Corn Growers Ass...
10 Jan 2022
USDA's Jan. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report will also be accompanied by a report of Dec. 1 Grain Stocks and NASS' report of Winter Wheat and Canola Seedings. That is a lot of new numbers for the market to absorb, and the potential for surprises is high. The reports will be released at 11 a.m. CST on Wednesday. JANUA...
10 Jan 2022
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- The EPA would have to act in order for year-round E15 sales to restart after the Supreme Court denied Growth Energy's request for a hearing in orders handed down Monday. Though the court's denial was a significant loss for the ethanol industry, two other agriculture-related petitions are still alive before the court. A Nation...
10 Jan 2022
ATLANTA (DTN) -- With farmers and ranchers who are members of the American Farm Bureau Federation expected to hand down policy this week on cattle marketing legislation, speakers at the annual meeting have thrown some cold water on exactly what mandated negotiated cash trade would mean to cattle producers. Stephen Koontz, a livestock marketing Exte...
10 Jan 2022
While the far Upper Mississippi River hibernates for the winter, things are not looking good at St. Louis, where water levels are below zero gauge. In fact, the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers remain low, while the Ohio River is forecast to move above minor flood stage Jan. 10. "St. Louis Harbor water levels remain low and are expected to con...