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This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn and beans continue to trade range bound with nothing to push them into a new range so far. Harvest continues to pick up steam. Market will also look to the USDA stocks report coming out Friday Sept […]

A recent Rabobank report says competition between major exporters has intensified in the global pork trade, meaning the competitive landscape will continue shifting in the years ahead. Low-cost producers like Brazil and the U.S. will likely have an advantage, while Europe’s position is expected to weaken following increasing market and regulatory requirements concerning animal welfare […]

American farmers and ranchers were in Washington, D.C., September 17-22, to state their opposition to the EATS Act. The Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression Act was introduced by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC) is a co-sponsor in the House. Groups like the Organization for Competitive Markets, Competitive Markets […]

The Environmental Working Group hosted a press conference with different organizations opposed to raising farmer support in the next farm bill. Josh Sewell, senior policy analyst with Taxpayers for Common Sense, says there’s no need to boost farm subsidies. “I think this is especially true as the farm sector is not in crisis. The USDA […]

At 206.7 bushels an acre, that’s a good corn yield for most farms, but for one Georgia farmer, it’s a new soybean yield record. Alex Harrell of southern Georgia explains how he achieved the record. “A lot of planning and applications. Last year we had corn on this field, we harvested the corn off, and […]

There was a crisis in farm country, and it’s not in the field: It’s in the minds of many farmers, a stress crisis that has perhaps gone unchecked for a very long time. Dr. Robin Tutor Marcom is director of the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute. I caught up with her as she attended a conference […]

Republican Congressman David Rouzer from North Carolina’s Seventh District told Agri-Pulse he has a lot of producer-centric priorities heading into the Farm Bill writing process. Strengthening that safety net. And of course when we do our visits all around the country, our ag Farm Bill listening sessions, adjusting that reference price is seems to be […]

RALEIGH – Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler has officially recommended to Gov. Roy Cooper that agricultural transportation waivers be implemented for the movement of livestock and agricultural products, paving the way for farmers to work ahead of the impending approach of Potential Tropical Cyclone 16. The agricultural transportation waivers do not require Council of State concurrence […]

You may remember the news headlines are started about 1516 years ago headlines about millions of bee colonies dying off or in some cases the bees just disappearing with the nation’s beekeepers losing 30 to 50% of their colonies every year. There was a lot of buzz about it for a few years. You don’t […]

The USDA is announcing a second round of payments for dairy producers through the Organic Dairy Marketing Assistance Program. The agency is providing an additional $5 million to help dairy producers mitigate market volatility, higher input and transportation costs, and unstable feed supply and prices that have created unique hardships in the organic dairy industry. […]