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This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Grain markets started the week off with Monday’s trade ending seeing wheat up double digits, corn close to unchanged and beans down around 10 cents. Soybeans started the session stronger with follow through buying from Friday’s NOPA domestic […]

Mark your calendars for the 16th Got to Be NC Festival May 17-19 and come join the fun. There are vendor opportunities and opportunities for tractor clubs and tractor enthusiasts and collectors to display and ride their tractors in a daily parade. Every short spurt of warm weather reminds me that it will soon be […]

National Ag Day is Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Jenni Badding, Ag Public Relations Manager at John Deere, is the chair of the Agriculture Council of America, the organization behind the annual event. “National Ag Day, we’re celebrating our 51st year. So, we have that long standing history there, and being the chair of the Agriculture Council […]

It was announced last week that Tyson plans to shut down another food production facility—this time, a pork production plant in Perry, Iowa. That plant has nearly 1,300 employees and kills about 8,000 head a day. “The market has not crumbled on this news. To me, that is supportive long-term.”  That’s Karl Setzer with Consus […]

It’s certainly feeling like spring, in fact maybe late spring more so than March right now. I’m talking with Corey Davis from the State Climate Office of North Carolina about this and unseasonably warm temperatures at least during the daytime this week. “Especially over the last week we had been climbing through the upper 60s […]

This is the Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. Corn and soybean markets are working hard to gain some ground. Even with some bearish news to digest corn and beans are showing decent strength. It was worth noting that as of the last commitment of traders report, […]

Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production; Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals; and California’s extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it’s time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

Iowa remains the top producer of hogs in the United States, with about $10.9 billion in cash receipts in 2022, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. Following Iowa are Minnesota, North Carolina, and Illinois, with cash receipts of $3.6 billion, $3.1 billion, and $2.1 billion, respectively. Iowa accounted for about 35.5 percent of the $30.6 […]

The federal appropriations process could pave the way for other pieces of legislation of important, like the farm bill. Representative Frank Lucas, an Oklahoma Republican, and former House Ag Chairman, explains. “There are so many things like the Farm Bill, reauthorizing the Weather Act, NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), there are so many pieces of legislation […]

USDA’s final ‘Product of the USA’ rule will allow farmers to label meat, poultry and egg products when they are born, raised and processed in the United States. RJ Layher, American Farm Bureau Federation Government Affairs Director, explains. “USDA on March 11 released a final rule on voluntary labeling for ‘Product of the USA’ or […]