With the election over and all eyes in the ag sector on the 2018 Farm Bill, it is worth looking ahead to the 2018 mid-term elections and what role they will play with regard to this debate in the 115th Congress that is set to convene in January 2017.With the election over and all eyes in the ag sector on the 2018 Farm Bill, it is worth looking ahead to the 2018 mid-term elections and what role they will play with regard to this debate in the 115th Congress that is set to convene in January 2017. Clients may recall that in 2015, there was momentum building in Congress for possible reform of the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS). However, any hopes for such action were dashed once the realization set in that of the 34 Senate seats up for electio...
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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