AG NEWS

01.05.2022

• Top 12 stories in 2021 on Western Farm Press
• Farmer Sentiment Rises on Strengthening Current Financial Position – Ag Barometer
• Biofuels to EPA: Pull ’20 RFS Proposal Biofuels, Ag Interests Press EPA Not to Reset 2020 RFS Volumes
• Panel Rules in Favor of US Dairy | US Wins Ruling Against Canada in USMCA Dairy Case
• Port Expands Space to Alleviate Ag Export Congestion
• John Deere unveils fully autonomous 8R tractor
• Tractor Owners Choose Their Favorite Brands
• Find 2022 profit tips at Farm Futures Business Summit
• Both sides of RFS issue testify before EPA hearing Tuesday
• Administration to work with Congress for fair, transparent cattle markets
• A challenging path ahead for cattle market legislation
• Crop protection providers hampered by supply chain issues
• Ag Day at the Capitol is January 26
• President Biden Met Virtually with Farmers, Outlines Plans to Tackle Meat Prices
• Biden Plan Directs $1 Billion To Impact Meat & Poultry Processing, Strengthen P&SA, Add New Labeling Rules
• Webinar: Ag Land Use Conflicts Among Wind, Solar Farms, Jan. 19
• USDA: The Distribution Of Irrigated Acreage Has Shifted Eastward
• United Van Lines Reports Most Moved To/Out States In 2021
• Agriculture Department and Justice Department Issue Shared Principles and Commitments to Protect Against Unfair and Anticompetitive Practices
• Biden Administration Will Outline Steps to Boost Competition in the Meat Sector in Monday Announcement
• Biden Pledges Beefed-Up Enforcement of Packers and Stockyards Act, Funds to Expand Packing Capacity
• Progressive Farmer Reader Insights Survey Winners Tractor Owners Choose Their Favorite Brands
• Confusion About Current Inflation
• Ag Producers Share Lessons Learned from a Volatile 2021
• 2022 Policy Update – Possible Impacts on Farm Income
• U Of Illinois Economist Issus 2022 Farm Income Outlook Report
• Agriculture Waits For Big Decisions On Supreme Court Cases
• USDA: Farm Share Of U.S. Food Dollar Increased In 2019 After 7 Years Of Decline
• U. S. economic outlook and agricultural implications for 2022

 

 

admin2022-01-05T12:32:39+00:00January 5th, 2022|

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12.28.2021

• Top 12 stories in 2021 on Western Farm Press
• Will Complacency Cost CA Walnut Farmers a Critical Tool?
• Consider 2022 crop insurance implications
• Economist concerned about slow disaster payments to farmers
• Top 10 Ag Stories of 2021: No. 5 La Nina, Drought Highlight Weather Events in 2021
• Satellite imagery helps producers to observe, improve cattle weight gain
• Successful Farming: Staff picks: Our favorite stories of 2021
• All production costs driving near-record breakeven costs for crops in ‘22
• The Future of Agricultural Lending
• U.S. Interest Rates – Are We Entering a Period of Sustained Inflation?
• Biofuel producer bets on camelina as low-carbon feedstock
• USDA Releases “Food Price Outlook” Report

admin2021-12-30T11:16:35+00:00December 28th, 2021|

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12.21.2021

• Inefficient California ports cost farmers billions New research estimates port congestion cost CA farmers $2.1 billion in lost exports
• State of the California Almond Industry
• Western Pistachio Industry Delivers Another Record Crop
• Almonds: What US Food Exporters Need to Know about China’s New Facility Registration Requirements
• Crop insurance considerations
• 2021 grain marketing reflections
• Top 10 Ag Stories of 2021: No. 10 Cybercriminals Take Aim at America’s Food Supply
• Ag policy highs and lows in 2021
• Prepare for Some Tax Shocks Farm Tax Experts Worry Alarming Tax Provisions Could Return to Build Back Better Act
• Mosaic: Global Issues Push Prices Up Mosaic: Several Factors Driving Up Fertilizer Costs; Some Groups Disagree
• 5 recommendations for year-end planning on the farm
• USDA allots $1.5 billion to counter supply chain turmoil in school meals
• Ambitious ‘biofuel America’ plan faces overhaul in 2022
• Balancing the many hats farmers wear
• Direct checks could ignite cover crop surge; crop insurance may play role, too
• Conservation funding in doubt, but Schumer vows to save Build Back Better plan
• Ag Lender Lists His Top Five 2021 Topics
• Nat’l Cattlemen’s Beef Assn Provides Year End Update Of Its Legislative/Regulatory Initiatives
• USDA Releases “Cost-Of-Crop And Livestock Production Forecast” Report
• USDA Releases “Livestock, Dairy, And Poultry Outlook” Report
• Global Corn Production And Trade Rise Expected For The Next Decade: Brazil To Lead The Growth
• Manchin says he will not vote for Build Back Better: ‘This is a no’
• What Higher Interest Rates Will Mean for Farmers
• Todd’s Take Why This Is Not Your Father’s Inflation
• Cabinet members urge to relieve ag supply chain
• 2022: A year to use put options
• USDA initiative would help farmers create new revenue streams
• Port backlog improving but still a large issue
• Dashboard shows ‘Achilles’ heel’ of food supply chain
• Thompson: Farm bill review a priority for 2022

admin2021-12-22T11:20:38+00:00December 21st, 2021|

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12.14.2021

• Students find soil temperature affects wine taste
• Napa County Farm Bureau Named 2021 County of the Year
• Last week, the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) released its annual report exploring characteristics of U.S. farms: “America’s Diverse Family Farms: 2021 Edition.”
• Global Fertilizer Outlook – 1 World Nitrogen Demand to Increase in 2022 Despite Considerably Higher Prices
• Is it time for a farm financial checkup?
• Uncertainty about 2022 running high? Try this.
• Markets head for holiday holding pattern
• Supreme Court to ask Biden’s input in bid to end Bayer Roundup lawsuit
• Farmland draws investor interest with inflation running hot
• EPA urged to delay herbicide registration changes
• Global demand for beef is reflective in the cattle market, positive multi-year outlook
• The cost of inflation
• CBO Report Shows True Cost of Biden Administration’s Build Back Better Plan Closer to $5T
• Cover crops as cash crops: Farmers angle to profit off the practice
• Assessing Damage From Weekend Storms – DTN
• Ag Economic Insights Release Report Showing Where Farmland Values And Rents Have Increased The Most
• Biden makes plea for agenda, FDA nominee heads to Hill
• CoBank Year-Ahead Report: Forces Shaping U.S. Rural Economy
• House Passes Two Nat’l Cattlemen’s Beef Assn-Backed Bills On Market Transparency
• The 9 grain market indicators to watch, now through the New Year
• Top Cash Rents in 2021
• Living Legacy Landowner Repopulates Harvested Woodland to Leave a Legacy
• EPA Opposes SCOTUS E15 Ruling Review
• USDA Reports Review As Expected, USDA’s December WASDE Held Few Major Surprises
• Few employees out of compliance as USDA vaccination rate rises
• NCBA says Brazil appears to be manipulating the world beef market
• “Report card” needed on China Phase 1
• Some crop input prices rising more than others
• Fertilizer Prices- Still No Reprieve
• U.S. Food Prices Climb
• John Phipps: The $3T Burning Question Economists Are Now Asking

admin2021-12-16T11:06:50+00:00December 14th, 2021|

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12.07.2021

• Lawsuit targets California’s inaction on Prop 12
• Capitalizing on the green “gold rush” in California
• Crop insurance decisions begin with cost of production in mind
• USDA Releases “Farm Sector Income And Finances” Report
• USDA Releases “Farm Household Well-Being” Report
• Former Ambassador to China Plugs Ag Trade Gains, But Also Sees China Becoming More Aggressive
• Revisiting the 1980s Farm Crisis | In New Book, Former North Dakota Ag Commissioner Spotlights Fight to Save Family Farms
• New WOTUS rule threatens property ownership
• USDA working to expand commercial export markets
• Cultured meat: 8 challenges in production
• Energy prices turn sharply higher
• Farmers are weighing the price of fertility in 2022
• House to vote on cattle contract library, a marketing reform
• How to get commodity pricing by asking your Google device | Video
• U.S. Soy Exports to China Face Headwinds
• Grain Market Outlook: Will the End of 2021 Match 2020?
• Are You Using the Best Entity Structure for Your Farm?
• U.S. Department Of Agriculture Announces Key Staff Additions And Promotions
• Ag Economic Insights Reviews Major Trends In 2021 … What A Year It Was
• USDA Establishes Food Purchase Program To Transfer The Food System, Build Back Better Via Local Food Purchase
• U Of Illinois Economist Forecasts Significant Decline For Grain Farm Income In 2022

admin2021-12-07T10:47:36+00:00December 7th, 2021|

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12.06.2021

• Blue Diamond Growers Host Annual Meeting, Announce Chairman’s Ambassador Award Recipient
• Why Sonoma County Needs a Wine Grape Pest Control District
• California Wine Market Shapes up with Successful 2021 Harvest
• State of the California Raisin Industry with Sun-Maid
• Bob Dole, former Senate champion of farmers, dead at 98
• USDA Forecasts Highest Farm Income Level Since 2013
• Vilsack Sees Prospects for Infrastructure, Renewable Fuels Expansion in Build Back Better Act
• Washington Week Ahead: Livestock, shipping bills get vote, Dems seek to finalize spending plan
• Dems add $2B in conservation technical assistance to Build Back Better plan
• Vilsack expects new RVOs very soon
• Ag, Biofuels Groups Tell EPA Resetting RFS Deadlines is Admission of Future Delays
• New identity preserved program aims to add value to crops
• Two strategies to analyze commodity markets
• FDA proposes changes to agricultural water rule
• Inflation still a major market influence
• New COVID variant upsets the markets, analyst says
• Bill would add protections for meatpacking workers, target industry’s monopolistic practices
• Adjusting fertilizer rates
• Agronomic management in the “off season”
• Is your state ready to handle the influx of federal funds for expanding broadband?
• Fertilizer Prices Continue to Climb, 2022 Planted Acreage Analysis Continues
• Global Food Prices Approach Record High
• 4 Ways to Research Your Farm’s History
• Op-Ed: What’s Driving Fertilizer Prices and What Can Be Done
• How to Balance Agronomic Decisions Against High Fertilizer Costs

admin2021-12-06T12:45:24+00:00December 6th, 2021|

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11.29.2021

• Grape consumption benefits cholesterol metabolism
• Almond Alliance names new CEO
• Medfly quarantine set in SoCal
• A Hint of Panic in the Wheat Market?
• USDA Begins Accepting Applications For $1.15 Billion In Loans And Grants For Rural Broadband Access
• Washington Week Ahead: Dems face spending stalemate, unfinished Biden agenda
• An electric tractor may be in your future
• How shorter crops could give farming a longer life
• USDA invests in strengthening meat supply chain
• Nutrient efficiency is on deck in agriculture
• Russian wheat rises for sixth week in a row amid strong demand
• Two proposals, two different solutions, no easy answer for cattle markets
• Pesticide industry battling supply chain challenges, working to ensure 2022 availability
• Using genetics as a risk management tool
• Rural Route Hero: USPS Mail Carrier Rescues Cattle Producer After Near-Death Tractor Accident
• USDA Agriculture And Related Industries Provide 10.3% Of Employment
• Full Year: Deere & Co’s Sales Up 24%, Net Income Doubles–$6 Billion
• Deere & Co. Issues Outlook For 2022

admin2021-11-29T10:23:01+00:00November 29th, 2021|

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11.22.2021

• Danger signs for 2023 farm bill in partisan rancor on Capitol Hill
• 11.22.2021 Crop Progress Report PDF
• Taxlink Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Cash Market Moves | Why All the Fuss Over the Lysine Shortage?
• Weekly Grain Movement – The pace slows down Nov 22, 2021
• 20 states ask Supreme Court to kill California’s Prop 12
• Farmers optimistic despite rising costs
• Happy days are here, again, for the ethanol industry
• Agriculture can be a climate leader with ‘build back’ funding, says Vilsack
• Cattle groups disagree on new legislation that would reshape U.S. cattle markets
• USDA issuing $270M in pandemic assistance to poultry, livestock contract producers
• Inflation—This Year’s Uninvited Holiday Guest
• U.S. Looking to Suspend Brazilian Beef Imports
• Farm Policy Facts: Report Highlights Issues, Challenges In The U.S. Beef Market
• Cattle Groups Disagree On Legislation To Reshape U.S. Cattle Markets
• Republican Ag Committee Members Call On EPA To Rescind Chlorpyrifos Decision
• Oil Crops Outlook

admin2021-11-23T12:57:20+00:00November 23rd, 2021|

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11.17.2021

• Ag Trade: California Ports to Charge for Containers Left at Terminals – DTN
• Kub’s Den | Put Your Own Risk Tolerance to the Test
• Ethanol Waiting for Biden RFS Action | Biofuels Leaders Ask Biden to Fulfill Campaign Pledge to Support RFS
• Input crisis ahead?
• Ag lender survey: 80% of borrowers to see profit in 2021
• Investment advice for a start-up beef herd
• Rotate varieties that resist soybean cyst nematode
• Infrastructure package is ‘monumental step forward,’ says Biden
• Major Missouri employers file joint suit against OSHA vaccine mandate
• Biden, Xi Hold Virtual Summit, as Brazilian Soy and Corn from Ukraine in Focus
• Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys- 2021 Third Quarter Farmland Values Soar
• Trade Mentioned, Not a Focus of Biden-Xi Talks as China Warns U.S. It’s ‘Playing with Fire’ on Taiwan
• Bonnie confirmed as undersecretary for farm production and conservation
• AFBF opposes Build Back Better bill, despite ag funding
• EPA criticized for delay in releasing ethanol blending targets
• Farm Bureau “Build Back Better” Act Would Hurt Rural America
• USDA: Nearly Half Of States Lost Population In Rural Areas In 2010-20

admin2021-11-17T12:46:01+00:00November 17th, 2021|

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11.08.2021

• Western Growers: Infrastructure bill delivers major water improvements for West
• Policy specialist expects bigger push to tie conservation compliance with revenue protection in next farm bill
• Ag Secretary comments on passage of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• The House passes a trillion dollar infrastructure bill
• Chemical, Mechanical and Physical Weed Control is the Future
• USDA underscores commitment to climate action at COP26
• US Ag at COP 26 Climate Conference | Vilsack Sees Action Needed to Combat Climate, Incentivize Farmers
• Understand how options work
• Bringing Wall Street to Main Street
• USDA issues $1.8B in ARC, PLC payments
• EPA denies one small refinery exemption
• Getting insight on the upcoming supply challenges of 2022
• Report: Governments must ‘drastically improve’ efforts to reduce emissions
• Fertilizer Prices: Another Week, Another Record- but Corn-Soybean Ratio Still Seen as Relatively Strong
• Jerry Gulke: Pre-Report Grain Market Jitters
• Farm Equipment Magazine Survey Finds 54% Of Machinery Dealers Don’t Support John Deere Workers’ Strike
• Restaurant Chains File Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Large Pork Producers
• Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is A Win For the Cattle Industry
• USDA: Most Counties Exempt Groceries From Sales Taxes

admin2021-11-08T11:07:09+00:00November 8th, 2021|

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