Will this strong El Nino winter, which left super unusual weather patterns in its wake, affect the North American growing season?It is soon to be all about weather. Will this strong El Nino winter, which left super unusual weather patterns in its wake, affect the North American growing season? Having listened to one particular climatologist several times over the last 18 months, it is interesting to note that he wasn’t concerned at all about the 2015 growing season in the late fall of 2014, although he was quite worried about 2016. Those comments were made long before the exceedingly strong El Nino occurred. His concerns were based on other long-term weather cycles that he believed might culminate in a less-than-ideal 2016 growing season, a...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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