With the farm bill in what could be the final stages before vote, there’s still some talk of cutting crop insurance subsidies. This led Tom Zacharias....More
With Friday morning’s monthly USDA supply/demand update expected to show only minor adjustments in 2012-2013 estimates, the corn and soybean trade....More
The Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) was part of the 2008 Farm Bill and offers an alternative to the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP)....More
U.S. corn planting is progressing at the slowest rate in 20 years as producers were able to plant only 2% of their crop during the week ended Sunday....More
While last Wednesday’s USDA supply/demand report sparked renewed concerns about tight U.S. soybean stocks, ample world soybean stocks and rising....More
Higher-than-expected March 1 grain stocks have traders expecting USDA to raise its estimates of U.S. corn, soybean and wheat ending stocks for 2012-....More
Buying crop revenue protection (RP) this year is a no-brainer on the heels of last year’s drought. But RP policies pay best when yields are reduced....More
Friday’s USDA supply/demand report received a negative initial reception from the soybean market as it lowered South American production less than....More
In an eloquent speech at the Commodity Classic in Florida on Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explained how the sequester will affect the....More
In case you are among the many wondering why USDA would project such high trend-line corn and soybean yield estimates (163.6 and 44.5, respectively,....More
A new source of yield worries in 2013: Seed availability and quality. Seed company representatives say the 2012 seed crops turned out better than....More
In its long-term projections released this morning, USDA’s Economic Research Service forecast farm income at a record $127.6 billion, up 15% as crop....More
Congress seems unlikely to pass a new five-year farm bill any time soon with talks on the federal budget and the U.S. debt ceiling likely to be....More
A top official at Argentina's agriculture ministry on Tuesday pegged the country’s 2012-2013 corn harvest at 28-30 million metric tons (mmt), but the....More
