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• EPA Comment Period Winds Down President Told RFS Proposal Doesn’t Match Sept. 12 Agreement
• USDA export prospects for 2020 up from August
• Weekly Outlook: Acreage in 2020
• New Bill Will Help Preserve Family Farms
• Farmers, Researchers Discuss Ways Farms Can Adapt to a Changing Climate
• Stronger-Than-Expected Sales to China Buoy U.S. Ag Exports
• Why Do Ag Prices Keep Going Down, Analyst Asks
• The Corn Belt’s Propane Situation Is Heating Up
• White House Asks Grassley for Input on Biofuels Policy
• Brazil 2019 Corn Exports Set to Soar 80%
• Rental Agreement Best Practices
• Origin of Livestock Proposed Rule Comment Period Open
• An Interesting Read/Opinion Article: The Strange Economics of Crop Insurance

 

• 3 Big Things Today, November 22, 2019
• 7 ag stories you might have missed this week – Nov. 22, 2019
• Deputy Ag Secretary: It Would Be Unfortunate if Speaker Pelosi Delayed Trade Pact Vote
• Outcome of SCOTUS Case Could Lead to Federal Jurisdiction of Groundwater
• Digital Technology Changing How Ag Produces Products, Conducts Business
• Half of the Trump administration’s latest trade-war bailout went to just a tenth of recipients
• Reimagining Rural America: How Can Small Towns Survive?
• Farms could face mandatory E-Verify, but current users say it’s flawed
• USDA Survey Reports When Consumers Go To The Grocery Store
• FERC OKs Emergency Propane Delivery Federal Agency to Allow Deliveries From Texas to Illinois for 30 Days
• NASS to Continue Weekly Crop Reports Beyond Nov. 25
• How to get the most from crop data
• There Will Be Crops Left Unharvested in 2019, Analyst Says
• Vetter says Japan trade deal is a good start, but more is needed
• Bipartisan Ag-Labor Bill Expected to Advance in House
• Trade stability with soy’s #2 market is in sight!
• Farmers receive 12 cents of a Thanksgiving food dollar
• A bad case of trade war fatigue
• Consumers Call for FDA Oversight of Rapidly Growing CBD Market
• Robots, Drones Becoming Workhorses for Agriculture
• Smith Tells House Committee Overall Strength of Economy Helps Farmers
• John Phipps: How Do We Know What China Is Really Buying?
• Liquidity Concerns Grow
• U.S. China Locked in Tough Negotiations
• Propane Remains a Problem, Emergency Extension Expected
• Propane Supply Pressures Amid Late Harvest, Add to Unsettling Farm Economic Indicators
• After Ups and Downs, Farm Groups Look for Finality on Trade
• Japan trade deal clears key hurdle
• Japan’s Lower House Passes U.S. Trade Deal Sought by Trump
• Perdue defends, celebrates USDA agency moves Perdue joined political leaders from Missouri and Kansas in touring the new HQ
• $3.625 Billion in MFP Payments Issued to be Paid Next Week
• E15 Summer Sales Increase 46% in 2019
• Senators Speak in Opposition to Small Refinery Waivers
• 300 Farm Groups, Co-operatives Agrbiz Urge House To Move Workforce Modernization Act

• USDA To Extend Flexibility On Crop Insurance Premiums
• Nebraska Rancher, Hunters Collide Over Elk
• U.S.-China Trade Talks Hit Snag Over Farm Purchases
• USDA To Extend Flexibility On Crop Insurance Program
• U.S. Farm Finances Worsen Despite Trump Trade War Aid
• It’s Not Just Farmers—U.S. Exports May Never Recover From the Trade War
• Pelosi indicates USMCA breakthrough could be imminent
• 3 Big Things Today, November 15, 2019
• China Lifts Ban on US Poultry Imports | Action Taken as China Looks for Protein During African Swine Fever Outbreak
• 7 ag stories you might have missed this week – Nov. 15, 2019
• NCBA report says U.S. leader in sustainable beef production
• Newly Published White Paper Outlines Minimal Environmental Impact Of U.S. Beef
• Corn Farmers Watch Basis Prices Improve, but Will They Sell?
• Ethanol Report to Signal Latest in Demand
• Farm Policy Facts: Alarming Trends In Rural America As Farmers Try To Hold On

• ADM Offers Free Corn Drying at Some Processing Plants
• Farmland Sale: Irrigated Nebraska Quarters Average $9,779 Per Acre
• Nebraska: Disaster Relief Payments Available for On-Farm Stored Grain Losses
• U.S./China trade talks reportedly stalled
• Ag Markets Close Lower Wednesday
• Wheat Outlook – Focus on old crop wheat
• CME gives traders new hedging tool
• Do You Understand The Farm Credit System?
• John Deere Transforming from a Machinery Company to a Smart Technology Company
• Senate Democrats claim MFP picks winners and losers
• Report finds payments to farmers mismanaged | Senate Democrats unveil report finding payments for trade damages mismanaged
• #Harvest19: Low Test Weights Could Drop Corn Carryover Significantly
• Congressional negotiators face decisions on FY20 spending, policy
• Ag bankers told to expect familiar conditions in the near future
• Farmer Mac Economist Says Severity Of Farm Bankruptcies Is Overstated
• Plant-based meat is a mixed bag abroad, and a pricey one
• U.S. October Tractor Sales Fell, While Combines Sold for More
• USDA Stumbles on Release of Market-Moving Crop Report
• Trade Aid Disparity Claims Senate Democrats’ Report Criticizes Trump Administration Trade Payments
• Senate Democrats assail $16B bailout for farmers One of the sharpest congressional critiques yet of Market Facilitation Program
• Biodiesel Tax Credit Hangs in Balance | Study Shows Tax Credit Allows Biodiesel Industry to Remain Competitive
• 2020 House Election Forecast House Ag Committee Mostly on Solid Ground in Reelection
• Is liquidity your No. 1 concern?

• Index: Mid-America Economy Expanding Below U.S. Pace
• End is in sight for Nebraska’s soybean harvest
• Some Iowa Farmers Now Cut Off from Liquid Propane Supplies
• Farmer on River Bottoms: “If I Can’t Get Insurance, I Won’t Farm It”
• Weekly Outlook: What Does a Trade Deal Promise for Soybean Exports?
• Trade War Has Cost Americans Additional $38 Billion
• Rabobank Releases 10-Year Grain Forecasts, Sluggish Growth
• Trump, Xi Jinping may not sign trade deal until December
• Strong Basis Evaporates in a Puff of Steam
• DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends | Seven Fertilizers Report-Price Drops
• Farmers Expect More Trump Tariff Payments in 2020
• U.S. Economy Slows as Corn and Soy Output Soar, According to USDA Projection
• Labor laws change January 1, 2020
• Corn, Soybean Harvest Slowest Since 2009- Capping Off Difficult Growing Year, Propane Supply a Concern
• USDA selects groups to help boost produce consumption
• Supreme Court searches for limits to EPA authority in groundwater case
• U.S. Unions and Mexico Flex Muscles on USMCA
• Number of U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Increasing
• USDA Finds Genetic Pathway to Doubling Sorghum Grain Yield
• USMEF Sees Growing Meat Sales to China, Japan in 2020
• Lawsuits Filed in Two Federal Courts Following EPA Final Action on Water Rule
• Rural leaders petition Trump to uphold biofuel promise
• China wants tariff rollback before signing partial trade deal
• Brazil to Use More Soybeans for Biodiesel Production
• Why Farmers Still Support Trump
• U.S., China progress could hinge on the removal of additional tariffs
• USDA to Collect Final Crop Production, Stocks Data
• Purdue/CME’s Farmer Sentiment Ticks Up 15 Points
• Website Launched For Farmers To Review Precision Farming Tools
• Rabo AgriFinance sees 10-year pressure on crop prices
• Perdue leads USDA trade mission to Mexico | Mexico is U.S. agriculture’s largest bilateral trading partner & 2nd-largest export market
• Analyst: Watch Chinese Currency and Quality Concerns For Cotton Market
• USDA Baseline Background, Outlook, and Recent Projections
• Traders Prepare for Friday’s WASDE Report
• China Presses Trump for More Tariff Roll-Backs
• WOTUS Repeal Faces Legal Challenges Lawsuits Filed in Two Federal Courts Following EPA Final Action on Water Rule
• Washington Insider — Tuesday President and Fed Continue Monetary Policy Fight
• 3 ways to manage the farm’s capital purchase ‘wish’ list
• November 4, 2019 Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• U.S. Economy Slows as Corn and Soy Output Soar, According to USDA Projection
• Using Geospatial Mapping to Track Livestock Diseases
• Scramble for propane marks Mother Nature’s latest challenge for U.S. farmers
• Finalizing USMCA is more important now than ever
• Rural Leaders Ask White House to Uphold Biofuel Promise
• USDA Releases “Fertilizer Use and Price” Outlook Report

• Nebraska Ethanol Board criticizes EPA Small Refinery Exemptions
• Corps to release more MO River water later into fall
• Nebraska: Prevented Planting – Putting Numbers To An Historic Year
• 3 Big Things Today, October 31, 2019
• Grain trader ADM’s adjusted profit falls on reduced export demand, ethanol margins
• China doubts long-term trade deal possible with Trump
• U.S. & China need a new location to sign trade deal
• Chinese market is a huge opportunity for US beef
• New Ag Labor Bill Touted Groups Cite Compromise to Legalize Ag Workers, Reform H-2A
• Farmers, Biofuel Producers Give Earful on EPA Proposal at Michigan Hearing
• What USDA Says About Hemp Farming Rules
• NCBA Applauds Approval of CFTC Reauthorization Bill
• AAW Announces ‘Women Heroes of Science & Technology’ Program
• The Fine Print of Trump’s China Tariff Deal
• Plans for Phase One Trade Agreement With China Move Ahead
• Crop Insurance Receives Bipartisan Praise
• Roberts, Stabenow introduce NBAF mission bill Bill would affirm the mission of the National Bio and Agro-Defense facility
• Buying guide: Is the internet killing ag retail?
• Government props up net farm income numbers
• USDA Takes an Earlier Look at the Long-Term Crop Forecast
• Have Prices on Combined Topped Out?
• Take that, Bud Light–Iowa brewery makes a beer with corn
• Spend the big bucks on herbicides for spring 2020
• Small-Refinery Exemptions Discussed at House Committee Hearing
• Highlights from House’s Hearing: "Protecting The RFS: The Trump Administration’s Abuse Of Waivers"
• Scientists to Study How Cover Crops Affect Plant Disease
• USDA Establishes Domestic Hemp Production Program
• The Case for Looking at the ARC-IC (ARC-Individual) Program Option
• Crop Progress Report (PDF) 10.28.19

• Nebraska Cuts Ribbon at Costco Poultry Plant
• Mapping Out October Harvest Delays Across the Corn Belt
• 3 Big Things Today, October 25, 2019
• FARM POLICY FACTS: America’s Farmers Face A Tough Harvest
• Fertilizer Prices Continue to Fall
• Interagency Reviewers Pointed Out Discrepancies in Biofuels Deal, Proposal
• Working Capital Wears Thin Land – Interest Rates Give Structural Support to Farmers’ Finances … For Now
• Dollar Volatility Affects Grain Prices
• China may buy $20 billion of U.S. ag products
• China to Ask U.S. to Remove Tariffs in Exchange for Ag Buys
• USMCA momentum following Wednesday meeting
• Climate committee urged to include farmers’ needs
• Harvest Delays? Contact Insurance Agent to Ensure You’re Covered
• More Details Announced on Recent Chinese Soybean Purchase
• House Passes Bill to Make Animal Cruelty a Felony
• EPA Proposes Two Major Corn Pesticide Application Changes
• USDA Study Shows Number Of Farms Financially Stressed Near 20 Year Normal

• Nebraska’s Platte Valley: One of the Premier Row-Crop-Farming Regions in the World
• Ag Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage Enrollment Open
• 3 Big Things Today, October 16, 2019
• Harvest Remains Behind Five-Year Pace
• Future of Food and Agriculture
• Farmers and Lawmakers Dismayed Over Details in Proposed EPA Ethanol Formula
• Ag and Ethanol Groups are Unhappy with EPA’s Biofuels Proposal
• EPA Proposal Seen As Bait and Switch to Biofuel Industry
• China confirms Trump’s version of trade deal; Mnuchin comments
• Uncertainty Hovers Over China’s Commitment to U.S. Farm Purchases
• Ag Secretary talks trade and disaster payments
• Trust And Verify: Lender Relationships in 2020
• US ag looks for big biotech and poultry wins with China
• Which Program Paid More Under the 2014 Farm Bill: ARC-CO or PLC? October 15, 2019
• China wants tariff reduction before making ag purchases
• Congress returns with ag work to do
• Corn and Soybeans Move Higher on Supply and Trade
• Taxlink Employee or Independent Contractor?
• U.S. Tractor, Combine Sales Up Double Digits In September
• During Weakened Farm Economy, Leasing Of Machinery Has Doubled
• Op-Ed By Senator Grassley: Farm Communities Need USMCA
• US, China Strike Partial Trade Deal
• U.S. Farmers Cheered by Apparent Trade Truce, Hope Shipments to Follow
• U.S., China Take Initial Step on Trade Deal; China Agrees to Buy $40-$50 Billion in U.S. Farm Goods Amid Rough Details
• Signal to Noise: China Deal, Is There a Devil in the Details?
• Dicamba’s off-target effects continue for third year

• Mapping Out Crop Progress in Nebraska
• U.S.-China relations are ‘tangled mess’
• China Offers Agricultural Purchases as Trade Talks Set to Resume
• Tariffs Hurt The Heartland: Trump’s Trade War Has Cost Americans $34 Billion
• Anticipating Bullish October Estimates
• Cattle Group Challenges USDA on Tagging
• Vice President Pence Demands Passage of USMCA This Year
• Ethanol Plan to ‘Net Out’ at 15 Billion Gallons – EPA’s Wheeler
• Senators call for JBS investigation
• Organic Versus Conventional–Can’t Everyone Just Get Along?
• US exporters struggle to replace China’s soybean market
• Farm Bill Implementation Hearing Announced
• USDA to Survey County Row Crop Acres, Production
• Five Largest Farmland Operators In The U.S. Reported
• President Holds White House Ceremony to Formalize Lower Ag Tariffs
• EIA Projects 1.9% Year-on-Year Decline in 2019 Ethanol Production
• Bullish Market Factors are Stacking Up, Analyst Says
• More Trade Aid to Farmers? ‘We’ll See What Happens,’ says Trump
• USDA sued for hog slaughter line speeds
• World’s First Fully Autonomous Farm by 2025?
• Upcoming WASDE Take Center Stage
• What Do 100 Percent Renewable Energy Goals Mean in Context?
• USDA: Share Of Highly Leveraged Farm Businesses Forecast To Increase
• Trump Signs Japan Deal President Holds White House Ceremony to Formalize Lower Ag Tariffs
• Where the U.S.-Japan Trade Deal Falls Short
• China Makes Large U.S. Wheat Purchase
• NASS Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• USDA Weekly Crop Progress Report Corn 58% Mature, 15% Harvested; Soybeans 72% Dropping Leaves, 14% Harvested
• White House looks to clear path for ‘bioeconomy’
• USDA Invests $152 Million To Improve Broadband Service In 14 States

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