Monday, February 6, 2023 9:05AM CST
The advocacy group Solar United Neighbors held a webinar last week touting some of the changes to REAP with applications due for the next funding cycle on March 31. The Inflation Reduction Act has quadrupled funding for REAP and increased the federal match for REAP grants as well.
Monday, February 6, 2023 5:00AM CST
What to expect from USDA's December Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports, which will be released on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
Thursday, February 2, 2023 9:32AM CST
Markets have nowhere to go but up, as a new USDA report shows the industry starts 2023 with the smallest beef cow herd ever.
After the extreme low water conditions in the Mississippi River and tributaries during Fall 2022, most of the system has received beneficial moisture this winter, but some areas wi...
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Last week's cattle inventory report from USDA gave cattle futures a boost, while lean hog prices showed signs of finding support from the recent bearish woes.
There is an inverse relationship with high prices resulting in lower corn fed per GCAU and vice-versa with the formula explaining about 70% of the variability seen in corn feed use...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service submitted its rule Nov. 25 seeking to define the lesser prairie chicken as "threatened" in northern areas that include eastern Colorado, western...
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's most recent survey of lenders shows that non-real estate farm loans increased by 20% on average as production costs climbed. Interest rate...
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Although Clean Air Act deadline came and went in July 2022 for EPA to respond to states' request to take action to allow year-round E15 sales, the agency has yet to act after 270 d...
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Over the last two months, we've slowly seen feedlots take on more of the marketing direction of the cash cattle market and slowly push trade out until Thursday or Friday of each we...
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Another round of rain late last week was beneficial for the corn and soybean crop in Argentina. However, the forecast for February is not favorable for continuing the upward trend.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by 0.25% on Feb. 1. At previous meetings the increases had been 0.75% and 0.5%. But there are likely more rate hikes ahead.
In this Equipment Roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at the Association of Equipment Manufacturers' thoughts on parts and employees, JCB's hydrogen-powered engine technology and...
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CGC's study looks at licensed deliveries of select crops into licensed facilities during the first half of the crop year, while calculating this volume as a percent of the total vo...
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March corn is down 1 cent, March soybeans are up 7 cents and March KC wheat is down 2 cents.
Cattle futures closed Monday on another positive note. Live cattle were carried higher on the expectations for higher cash prices again this week. Feeder cattle pushed higher, nearing chart resistance. Hogs came under severe pressure and struggling cutouts are not helping.