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This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. USDA’s October supply and demand update came out yesterday at 12 noon. The October report is widely anticipated (and sometimes subject to surprises) because it includes harvest data on top of all the other estimating tools (surveys, satellite, […]

While the House attempts to replace recently removed Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who dared bring a bipartisan bill to the table that temporarily prevented a government shutdown, the recently expired farm bill sits in limbo. National Potato Council CEO Kam Quarles says the turmoil means there are some in the House majority, with a no compromise attitude, […]

A recent headline said South Dakota officials found Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a commercial turkey flock. HPAI is typically spread by wild birds during spring and fall migrations. Michael Crusan, communications director with the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, says it can seem as though the disease never truly goes away. “It goes away […]

August pork exports totaled 226,519 metric tons. Led by Mexico and their record pace of imports, Kelli Wicks, manager of international market development with National Pork Board, compared the five-year and three-year averages for value of U.S. pork. “They have grown 54 percent this year compared to the five-year average and 45 percent compared to […]

Smithfield Foods says will close its Charlotte, North Carolina, pork-processing plant and transfer production to its Tar Heel, North Carolina, facility by the end of 2023. The company says the move is to increase efficiency and better utilize existing capacity, and comes as the company faces “abundant supplies and soft demand” weighing on pork prices. […]

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Oct. 11, 2023) – Professor Emerita Shirley Hymon-Parker, Ph.D. will lead the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) as interim dean, North Carolina A&T State University academic leaders announced today. Hymon-Parker takes over leadership of the nation’s largest college of agriculture at a historically Black college or university (HBCU) and one […]

With Kevin McCarthy ousted last week as Speaker of the House and representatives returning from their brief recess, the chaos on Capitol Hill has impacted the development of the next farm bill. “Well, it’s certainly not desirable to have these kinds of machinations going on. It’s just not helpful.”  That’s Ted McKinney, CEO of the […]

Sixteen members of the House of Representatives pushed back against the Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act in a letter to House ag leaders. The group sent a letter to House Ag Chair Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and Ranking Member David Scott (D-GA). Groups backing the letter included the Organization for Competitive Markets, Competitive Markets Action, […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Markets continue to trade a fairly narrow range despite the turmoil in the outside markets and elsewhere in the world. We will get USDA’s latest update on supply and demand this Thursday at 12 noon. On Friday’s report I will […]

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