USDA NASS Modernizes Data Visualization with Launch of AgInsights
The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today launched AgInsights, a new data dissemination tool that will serve as a key component of NASS's ongoing modernization strategy. Designed to enhance currently used data products and services, the AgInsights application offers streamlined information dissem...
Congressman Urges Action to Protect Eastern North Carolina Soybean Growers
Congressman Don Davis (NC-01) sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him to prioritize American soybean producers and secure reliable access to Chinese markets during his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. "Agriculture is the economic backbone of eastern North Carolina, and our soybean ...
Details of 2026 National Farm Safety and Health Week
"Safety Today, Success Tomorrow," a theme of 2026 National Farm Safety and Health Week. Dan Neenan of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety says this annual education and awareness campaign goes back to the presidential administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "FDR signed the first Na...
Farmers to Feel Impact of Rising Rail Transportation Costs
Higher fuel prices aren't just affecting what farmers pay to plant and harvest a crop. They're also driving up transportation costs throughout the supply chain, including rail freight fuel surcharges that can ultimately impact farmers' bottom lines. Mike Steenhoek, Executive Director of the Soy Transportation Coalition...
NCBA Doubts Imports Will Lower Beef Prices
The Trump administration says allowing tariff-free beef imports could help lower consumer prices, but the National Cattlemen's Beef Association is questioning whether the move will actually make a difference. NCBA Executive Director of Government Affairs Kent Bacus says much of the imported product won't even end up in...
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Tuesday, September 15th
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540. Friday was USDA report day. The September report can be a big market mover because it is the first report USDA uses objective field measures of yield. They use those measurements in addition to u...
Market Reacts Bearishly to September WASDE
USDA updated its corn production number in Friday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, now estimated at 15.8 billion bushels, down 213 million bushels from last month, while soybean production was raised to a record 4.535 billion bushels. Markets reacted swiftly to the report, and not necessarily as analys...
More Cows, More Milk, More Pressure on Prices
U.S. dairy producers continue to churn out more milk. At the same time, questions remain about export demand, trade tensions with Canada, and whether rising feed costs could eventually slow production growth. Market advisor Naomi Blohm gives us a closer look at the latest dairy trends. "So the theme continues to b...
Rising Revenue Outlook Giveth, but Rising Input Costs Taketh Away
Rising commodity prices are offering farmers a brighter revenue outlook for 2026 and '27, but escalating input costs continue to tighten margins. University of Illinois agricultural economist Nick Paulson is optimistic for the farm gate. "Maybe a good news takeaway is on the revenue side, we're seeing pricing oppo...
Brooks Schaffer Market Report for Friday, September 11th
This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540. Futures markets continue to try to price in all the uncertainty going on in the world right now, the changes in their fundamentals as the Northern Hemisphere growing season comes to a close, and ...