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This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Markets have seemed to be treading water early in the week trading in fairly narrow trading ranges. The turmoil in the outside markets is having some effect on the grain trade but it is often offsetting in net effect. We […]

Agricultural producers’ sentiment declined for the second month in a row during September. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell nine points to a reading of 106. Producers expressed concern about both their current situation as well as future prospects for their farms. The Current Conditions and Futures Expectations Indices both declined ten points […]

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is celebrating its many successful efforts to prevent African swine fever from reaching the United States. In honor of ASF Action Week, APHIS is recognizing the continuing efforts to prevent this deadly swine disease from reaching our shores. Some of the agency’s major accomplishments in these areas include […]

With the flu season just around the corner, producers are taking extra steps to keep pigs and people healthy and doing so comes down to prevention. Dr. Heather Fowler, director of producer and public health for the National Pork Board, said producers can implant guidelines shared through the National Pork Board. “Pork Quality Assurance Plus […]

Farmland sales have remained strong through 2023 but typically slow during harvest season when farmers are busy elsewhere. But Paul Shadegg, senior vice president of real estate operations with Farmers National Company, says sales aren’t slowing as much as in the past year. “With those pressures of increased interest rates and the input costs operators […]

As Red Crown Rot begins showing up in soybean fields in parts of the Midwest and Kentucky, it can get mistaken for other diseases, including sudden death syndrome (SDS). Phil Krieg, an agronomic service representative with Syngenta, talks about what to watch out for. “Red Crown Rot is a relatively new disease that we’re seeing […]

Some more US crops and commodities are covered in drought, the summary of the end of September US Drought Monitor. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says that occurred throughout the previous month. Despite cooler temperatures in several parts of the country. We’ve seen a four percentage point increase in drought coverage across the lower 48 states […]

Defeat of the House USDA spending bill last week over farm and abortion issues leaves the bill’s future uncertain, amid continued political chaos in the chamber. The USDA-FDA bill’s defeat was yet another scar in a House plagued by continued political turmoil within and between the parties, even as a majority came together to avert […]

The controversial anti-checkoff amendment to the Ag Appropriations Bill failed before the full House last week. The amendment proposal was led by Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN), who defended it on the House floor. “So if you want to force farmers to pay some money, I think part of what farmers need to know where the […]

The USDA released the September 1 Grain Stocks and Small Grains Summary Reports last week. Todd Hultman, grain market analyst for DTN, says the September 1 corn stocks were lower than expected. “The new total, September one corn stocks – and by the way, these are the ending stocks for the 2022 to 2023 season […]