This 90-minute webinar is for you if you have a retail listing and you are starting the journey towards expanding within this market channel. This webinar builds on the earlier “Getting into Retail” webinar series held between January and March 2021 and focuses on what you need to do to maintain current listings while being able to grow your retail markets. A keynote presentation is provided by Jeff Doucette of […]
Dr. Meghan Vankosky, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Saskatoon, provides an update on the canola insects observed during the 2021 growing season. Dr. Vankosky presented on Nov. 30, during the Canola Industry Meeting, the first day of Canola Week 2021.
Pioneer Field Agronomist Larry Lunder talks about the dos and don'ts of introducing soybeans into the semi-arid climates of Western North Dakota.
May corn closed at $7.57 and 3/4, up 1 and 1/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $16.45 and 1/2, up 26 centsMay soybean meal closed at $460.20, down $1.60May soybean oil closed at $73.02, up 119 pointsMay wheat closed at $10.20, down 18 and 1/4 centsApr. live cattle closed at $138.00, up 30 centsJune lean hogs closed at $114.15, up 55 centsApr. ...
A western Nebraska producer says adding sugar beets to his crop rotation has made his operation more sustainable and created more market options. Kevin Hall raises cattle and grows 12,000 acres of corn, wheat, pinto beans and sugar beets near Scottsbluff. “We get the sugar to deliver to the grocery store, as well as, by products like molasses and beep pulp that we bring back to feed it to our […]
An Illinois farmer is making some last-minute acreage changes ahead of spring planting. Mark Read farms near Putnam in north central Illinois. “We actually just made the decision to switch some acreage from soybeans to corn right now, as long as we can get the nitrogen, is a little more profitable. Part of that is due to the last USDA report and the financial part of it.” Read says […]
Soybeans closed sharply higher Thursday. The soybean market traded softly higher overnight which picked up early in the session. Soybean futures are continuing to gain strength on South American drought conditions, even with rainfall in parts of Brazil. Traders are expecting strong adjustments in USDA’s global supply and demand report coming out tomorrow. Expectations of tightening ending stocks have been bullish for the market. A lack of a downward adjustment […]
A dairy organization leader says many farmers are reluctant to speak out on dairy pricing reform, even though the present system has harmed them. Laurie Fischer is the President of the American Dairy Coalition, which recently hosted an online discussion about dairy pricing issues. She says, “One of the items that came up and it continues to come up in our conversations is a fear for dairy farmers to speak […]
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly higher and feeders were mixed watching for additional cash business to develop. June live cattle closed $.12 lower at $134.10 and August live cattle closed $.40 higher at $136.10. May feeder cattle closed $.47 lower at $159.47 and August feeder cattle closed $1.57 higher at $174.27. Direct cash cattle trade activity was quiet following three days of light to moderate […]
