• USDA to Move Up Date to Hay, Graze Prevent Plant Acres
• Duvall Says Farmers May Need Another Trade Aid Program
• Understanding NASS’s planting percentage
• 3 Big Things Today, June 20
• Fusarium Head Blight Taking Hold in Winter Wheat Fields
• Trade policies shifting to transactional partnerships
• Stable Agricultural Land Values Settle Farm Balance Sheets, For Now
• USTR to Democrats: Let’s make a deal on USMCA
• U.S. Trade Rep: Farmers Hit By Japanese Agreements with Others – DTN
• Ag Trade Balance Projected to Fall to $8 Billion in Fiscal 2019
• Taco Bell Refuses to Consider Using Fake Meat
• Climate Change Sows Seeds of Multi-Peril Crop Insurance Denials
• Federal Reserve: Observations on the Ag Economy- May 2019
• Senators Press for Trade Action | Trade Ambassador Says USMCA Talks Continue to Advance With Democrats
• Trade Optimism Sends US Stocks Higher
• Trump and Xi will talk trade at G-20 “extended meeting”
• Lighthizer testifies on USMCA details
• USDA Releases "Feed Outlook: June 2019" Report
• Prevent Plant for Corn and Soybeans, 2007-2018
• Trump’s $16 Billion Farm Bailout Criticized at the WTO
• Call the Vet! Rural Veterinary Medicine is Struggling
• Is Trump’s Farm Support Wearing Thin
• Market Retreats to Mull Acreage
• USDA Releases "Season-Average Price Forecasts" Outlook Report
• USDA: Agricultural Exports Supported An Estimated 1.2 Million Full-Time Jobs In 2017
• Millions Of Corn, Soybean Acres Remain Unplanted
• Despite Sour Ag Economy, Farmers Nat’l Co. Reports Land Sales Volume Up 29%
• Texas Growers With Failed Cotton Have Replant Options
• Trade Of U.S. Wheat Not Disrupted By Discovery Of GE Crop
• Analysts: Millions of Acres of Corn, Soybeans Will Not Get Planted
• The Other Side of the 2019 Corn Rally
• Senate Ag Committee Member Says It’s Time to Crack Down on EPA Waivers
• Pruitt Advised Not to Issue Exemptions | Adviser Warned Pruitt of ‘Appearance of Quid Pro Quo’ on Small-Refinery Waivers
• Planting Cover Crops on Prevent Plant Acres? Read This First
• Trump Mulled Plan in 2018 to Scale Back U.S. Biofuel Waivers
• Top Stories Broin: E15 is ‘a game changer for rural America’
• Outlook Chairman ‘Could Argue Both Ways for Soybean Planted Acreage’
• CoBank: Blockchain hurdles for commodity system
• Why Is Kansas City a Good Home for ERS?
• Washington Week Ahead: USTR presses USCMA, House debates FY20 bills

• 3 Big Things Today, June 13
• Trump in Nebraska, Iowa to Push Year-Round E-15 Sales
• Some Details Of Trade Aid 2.0 Revealed, First Payments In August
• FEEDD Act introduced in U.S. House: A bill that would allow for early haying and grazing of cover crops on prevent plant ground has been introduced in the U.S.
• Secretary Perdue Statement on President Trump’s Biotech Order
• U.S. – Mexico Rift Far From Over and Still a Trade Threat
• Farmers Counting on Congress to Bring USMCA Across Finish Line
• As the First Round of Planting Nears an End, Replanting Begins
• Tyson Enters Plant-Based Meat Market
• EIA: Ethanol Stocks Plunge
• Rural Voters Sticking With Trump
• Trump Simplifies Reviews of Genetically Modified Farm Products
• USDA Set to Adjust U.S. Soy Numbers in July Report – Chief Economist
• As Democratic voters warm to free trade, White House candidates struggle for positions
• Weather Delay Cuts Corn Crop to Smallest in 4 Years
• In farm children, I see virtues that one sees too rarely these days
• Secretary Perdue Statement on President Trump’s Biotech Order
• Secretary Perdue: Farmers are Resilient
• The Aftermath of Wet Spring: USDA Making Rare Adjustment to Corn Yield
• Will the USDA Bombshell Stick?
• President Trump Streamlines Agriculture Biotech Regulations
• Trump Simplifies Reviews of Genetically Modified Farm Products
• Yield Busters: USDA Report Sends Corn Futures Skyward
• Planting cover crops could yield MFP payments
• As Biden Tours Iowa, Farmers Want to Know Where He Stands on Ethanol
• Doud, McKinney: Trump Has Farmers Backs
• House Ag Subcommittee Agricultural Trade Hearing- USMCA Approval “Vital”
• New Book Released: Who’s Running Your Farm (NEXT)?
• Fragile U.S. – Mexico Dea Doesn’t Include Ag Purchases
• Trump Removes Tariff Threat, But Obstacles Remain for USMCA
• 2017 Census Shows Continued Concentration In Agricultural Production
• USDA Releases “Latest U.S. Agricutlural Trade Data” Outlook Report
• USDA Tempers Aid Expectations: Planting Still a Priority for MFP Payments, Disaster Aid Has to Stretch Far
• USDA’s June Report Ill-Suited for Big Questions
• Petroleum Interests Sue EPA on E15 Rule
• Crop Progress Report
• China: 5 Things to Think About
• Should You Keep the Corn and Soybean Seeds You Have?
• Efforts to Retrict Foregin Ownership of US Farmland Grow
• Additional Information on Disaster and Trade-Related Assistance from USDA
• Wheat Groups Comment on Discovery of GE Wheat in Washington Field
• Secretary Perdue Statement on Disaster and Trade-Related Assistance
• Senators Urge USDA to Expedite Crop Insurance Guidelines
• Trump Calls Off Tariff Threat After Agreement is Reached
• On Heels of Tariff Deal, Trump Seeks to Reassure Rural Base
• ARA: Payments May Negatively Impact Retailers
• Trump Signs Disaster Bill with $3 Billion for Agriculture
• Stage Set for a Significant Price Rally, Analysts Says
• USDA Proposes New Rule for Regulating GM Crops
• G-20 Officials Pledge to Protect Growth
• Positive Trade News with Mexico in the Midst of an Awful Spring for Planting
• Harvested Cropland Declined by 2 Million Acres in 2018

• Nebraska is Latest State to Legalize Hemp Farming
• Nebraska Corn 80% Complete

Corn planting in Nebraska, as of Sunday, stood at 88 percent. Sixty-seven percent of the crop had emerged, compared to 88 percent normal. Soybean planting was 64 percent complete, well behind the 87 average. Thirty-nine percent of soybeans had emerged. Thirty-six percent of sorghum was planted. Winter wheat rated 67 percent good to excellent and 25 percent fair. Pasture and range conditions were called 83 percent good to excellent and 15 percent fair.

• Ag Retailers Say Disaster Aid Could Leave Them Holding the Seed Bag
• Ethanol Groups Predict Year-Round E15 Sales Will Lead to Long-Term Market Growth
• Ag Senate Committee Chairman Roberts Issues Statement On EPA EPCRA Rulemaking
• Ag Economy Barometer Falls to Ocotber 2016 Level
• Texas Judge Sinks WOTUS Rule
• Which Farmers are Most at Risk in 2019
• Farm Groups Applaud EPA’s Livestock Emissions Exemption
• Disaster Relief Bill Awaits President Trump’s Signature
• China Suspends U.S. Soybean Purchases
• USDA: Slightly Over 12% Of U.S. Residents Participated In SNAP In 2018
• Long-Stalled Disaster Aid Clears Congress
• Farm Policy Facts: Our View –Financial Woes on the Farm Bode Ill for the Nations
• Farmers Unsettled by U.S. Tariff Threats, While USDA Projects Lower Agricultural Exports
• Crop Progress Report: June 3, 2019
• Crunch Time: 31 Million Corn Acres Unplanted
• Trump Says Mexico to Discuss His Tariff Threat in DC
• Syngenta Announces Global Introduction of Novel Seed Treatment Fungicide Vayantis
• USDA Says States Can’t Block Hemp Transports
• Pulse Poll: More Than a Third of Farmers to Take Prevent Plant
• USDA Announces Commodity Credit Corporation Lending Rates
• Stabenow Applauds New Crop Insurance Benefits for Farmer Veterans
• Ag Economic Insights Issues Report “Trade War Consequences And Impacts”
• Mexico And U.S. Gear Up For Tariff Talks As Trump Doubles Down On Threat
• U.S. Businesses, Farm Groups Warn Tariffs On Mexico Raise Costs, Create Uncertainty
• USDA Reports Nation’s Ag Exports At Three Year Low
• EPA Finalizes E15 Rule Agency Leaves Potential Biofuel Credit Reforms on Table for Later Time
• A Roundup of Recommendations for Late Soybean Planting
• Farmers Face Difficult Decisions as Spring Planting Lumbers On
• Jerry Gulke: Prices Blow Through Overhead Resistance; What’s Next?
• Farmers Used Rally As Opportunity To Drain Elevator Space
• Washington Week Ahead: House Set to Clear Long-Awaited Disaster Aid
• Lower Peanut Stocks
• “Undercover” Videos Are Not Going Away: Hire Carefully

Disaster Relief Advances Congress, President Agrees on$19 Billion Package Covering Hurricanes, Floods

• 3 Big Things Today, May 31
• Perdue Mulls Inclusion of Unplanted Acres in Trade Aid
• RMA: Companies ready for prevent plant claims
• Disaster Relief Advances Congress, President Agrees on $19 Billion Package Covering Hurricanes, Floods
• Trump to Impose 5% Tariff on Mexican Goods
• Canada, Mexico, President Trump Take Action Toward Approval of USMCA
• Trade: China Halts U.S. Soybean Purchases, While USMCA Prospects Unfold
• Historic Flooding Hits Farmers in South-Central US
• Trade Aid Not a Solution: Farm Groups Praise Aid, President, But Keep Asking for Long-Term Trade Resolution
• Should You Plant or Take Prevented Plant Coverage?
• Weather Chaos Expected to Leave Record U.S. Corn Acres Unplanted
• A Need For Tech-Savvy Farmers Plagues The Agriculture Industry
• Demand For CBD Products Spurring Large Increase Of Farming Operations Of Cannabis In U.S.
• RMA: Companies ready for prevent plant claims
• Crop Progress Report
• Corn Prices Surge to Three-Year High
• Planting Progress Remains at a Record Low
• Ag Economist Sees Big Drop in Corn Acreage and Yields
• Court Tosses 2015 WOTUS Rule
• China Puts U.S. Soybean Purchases on Hold
• Late Planting with Grain Sorghum Could Provide Opportunity
• Another Right-to-Farm Victory
• SF Special: Chuck Grassley, A Senate Force For Farmers
• USDA Marketing Assitance Loan Deadlines Near
• Rural Broadband Deplyment Report Receives Mixed Reviews
• Trump Tariff Payments Could Triple Farm Subsidies This Year
• Corn Prices Surge to Three-Year High
• Revisit Hedges as Late Planting Season Begins
• DTN Early Word Opening Livestock Follow-Through Pressure Expected
• Fertilizer Outlook – Fertilizer Industry Scramble to Adjust
• USDA WASDE predicts $4.70 average wheat price
• ERS, NIFA employees expected to be relocated this summer
• Renewable Fuel Standard Act Introduced: Bill sets June 1 deadline for submitting small refinery exemption petitions
• 11 findings from aerial applicator survey
• New Attempt for House Passage of Disaster Bill Possible This Week
• High Risk of Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome This Spring
• Ag Economist Sees Big Drop In Corn Acreage–And Yields
• Japan braces for more pressure from Trump
• Questions Surround Trade, Disaster Relief as Farmers Struggle to Plants
• Perdue Responds to UGA Study on USMCA
• USDA: Use Of Insect-Resistant Cotton And Corn Seeds Increase Quickly, Now Widespread
• U.S. Cattle on Feed Hits Another Record
• Comparing Livestock Productivity Since 1993
• Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act Introduced
• Judge Rejects Plan for Public Land Grazing Allotments
• Farm Groups Praise Aid, President, But Keep Asking for Long-Term Trade Resolution
• Senator Asks EPA’s Inspector General for RFS Waiver Investigation
• While in Japan, Trump Comments on China
• U.S. Court Rules in Favor of Miller Coors in a Sour Fight With Rival Bud Light
• Farmers Show Cautious Optimism for Tariff Aid Plan
• Will USDA Avoid Skewing Planting Decisions?
• Strong Weekend Storms Continue to Delay Planting

• New Tariff Aid Plan Offers Single Payment for All Non-Specialty Crops
• Senate Disaster Aid Bill Waives AGI Limits On MFP 2.0
• USDA Details New Round of Trade Aid for Farmers That Demands Planting This Spring
• Congress, President Agree on $19 Billion Package Covering Hurricanes, Floods
• 7 ag stories you might have missed this week – May 24, 2019
• USDA Offers Explainer on $16 Billion Trade War Buffer to Farmers
• Trump Speaks on China, USMCA, and Deregulation at Trade Aid Press Conference
• Groups support agribusiness merger moratorium bills
• MPF Payments: Less Pressure to Plant Soybeans?
• MFP 2.0 Makes Prevent Plant Decisions Even More Difficult
• USDA Alerts Vendors to Fraudulent DocuSign Email

USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption

(Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation and trade disruption. President Trump directed Secretary Perdue to craft a relief strategy to support American agricultural producers while the Administration continues to work on free, fair, and reciprocal trade deals to open more markets in the long run to help American farmers compete globally. Specifically, the President has authorized USDA to provide up to $16 billion in programs, which is in line with the estimated impacts of unjustified retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural goods and other trade disruptions. These programs will assist agricultural producers while President Trump works to address long-standing market access barriers. Continue reading.

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• 3 Big Things Today, May 22
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• USDA Meteorologist Reports This Is The Slowest Planting Progress Ever
• Record Slow Planting Puts 2019 Crops at Risk
• Record Slow Planting Lifts Prices
• For High-Value Farms, Labor Squeeze Gets Tighter
• Sell This Corn Rally, or Wait, Analyst Says
• USMEF Applauds ‘Important Breakthroughs’ on Trade
• Statements on Farm Bill Conservation Programs
• The Role of Agricutlure in Climate Change
• Trade Mitigation to Disrupt Acreage Intentions?
• UPDATE 1-China rebuffs Trump claim U.S. tariffs are making firms leave
• Design of Aid Package and Prevented Planting Become Intertwined
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• USDA: Only Half Of The Corn Has Been Planted, 19% Of Soybeans
• Does It Really Take $4.5 Million to Be a Stock Cow Operator?
• China Says Foreign Investors Enthusiastic Despite Trump Claim
• USMEF Applauds ‘Important Breakthroughs’ On Trade
• A New Era of Cattle Identification on the Horizon
• Eminent Domain Bill Reported Out of Committee
• IRS Removes Farm Income Averaging Guidance on QBI
• U.S. Organic Sales Reach Record $50 Billion in 2018
• Who Is Buying And Selling Farmland Today?
• Prevented Planting: Implications for New-Crop Market Prices
• Secretary Perdue Statement on the Removal of Section 232 Tariffs
• Welcome News on Trade, But Unresolved Issues Linger
• Washington Week Ahead: Farmers Await Trade Package, Disaster Aid
• U.S. Will Lift Steel, Aluminum Tariffs On Canada and Mexico
• Japan Opens Doors to Full Access of U.S. Beef Imports – USDA
• Japan Lifts Age Restriction on Beef
• Brazil Rides Wave of Soybean Sales to China as U.S. Trade War Rages
• Trump Says Deal With Mexico and Canada Cuts Tariffs
• Farmers Follow Trump Into Trade War
• USDA Enhances African Swine Fever Surveillance

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• Secretary Perdue Confirms New Trade Aid Details Aren’t Ready
• China’s Retaliation Could Move Beyond Tariffs
• Trump to Donate Q1 Salary to USDA
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• China Says Economic Impact of U.S. Trade Tensions Controllable
• Midwest Farming: Sand Deposited by Floods – What are Your Options?
• Nebraska: Delayed Corn Planting – Time To Switch Maturities?
• 3 Big Things Today, May 16
• New Trump Aid Plan for U.S. Farmers to Rely on Direct Payments – Sources
• Trade War Hurting the U.S. Ethanol Industry ‘Badly’ -U.S. Grains Council
• Ag Sec’y Perdue Provides Update On China-U.S. Relations
• Trading Challenges Add to Boost in Corn
• Trump Displays Preference for Tariffs Over Deals
• Why Farm Bureau Likes EPA’s Revised Water Policies
• Farm Progress America, May 15, 2019
• Mnuchin: Deal on Steel and Aluminum Tariffs is ‘Close’
• USDA Reopens Continuous CRP Signup
• Angry Chairman Threatens to Shut Down Conservation Signup
• U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Deserve Better
• Stoic, Resourceful – And at Risk for Suicide
• GOP Works to Ease Blow From Trump’s Trade War
• U.S., China Trade Dispute Escalates, While Some Trade Aid Details Emerge
• Trump Declares National Emergency to Secure Communications Technology
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• New Ag Trade Aid Package in Days, Not Weeks
• Trump Says U.S.-China Trade Talks Have Not Collapsed
• China Says Tariff Retaliation to Take Effect on June 1
• Grains – Corn at 7-Week High, Planting Delays, Soybeans Extend Rally
• Senator Lobbying White House for Trade Aid for Farmers Affected by China Tariffs
• Grain Rally Continues Early Wednesday
• What is a Cut-Off Date?
• Literal Cost of the Trade War
• Agriculture Waits for Crucial USMCA Vote
• JP Morgan Calls U.S. Ag Fundamentals “Rapidly Deteriorating”
• EPA Proposal Would Raise Biofuel Mandate in 2020
• Roberts, Stabenow Announce Climate Change Hearing
• Trump Says U.S. Farmers to Get $15 Billion in Aid Amid China Trade Spat
• Trump to Meet Xi After Defiant China Slaps U.S. with New Tariffs
• Perdue: U.S. Wants China to Be a Customer
• Roberts: Time is Now for Deal with China
• Wanted: U.S. China Trade Deal, Deadline: June 1
• 3 Big Things Today, May 14
• USDA Weekly Crop Progress US Farmers Fall Further Behind in Race to Plant
• Prevented-Planting Decisions Farms Underwater Won’t Have a Choice, but Prevented Planting Not an Easy Decision
• Planting Delayed? Here Are Your Prevent Plant Options
• May 13, 2019 Crop Progress Report (PDF)
• Weekly Grain Movement – Wheat carves out a marketing-year high
• Jury awards $2 billion in third Roundup trial
• Soybeans Prices Break Hard Monday, Hit 10-Year Low
• Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys- 2019 First Quarter Farm Economy Conditions
• Amazon, Walmart? Farming’s Wild Scramble For Online Ag Retail
• Farmland Cash Rents Again Mostly Steady in 2019
• Weekly Outlook: Reconsidering USDA’s Corn Projections

• 3 Big Things Today, May 9
• Nebraska: It’s Not Too Late – On-Farm Research Options
• Nebraska Flood Workshop: Recovering River Frontage Ag Land, May 13
• A Lot on the Line as China Negotiations Near Possible Tipping Point
• USDA’s Early Glimpse of a New Season
• Most Fertilizer Prices Move Lower for Second Week in a Row
• White House Says China Has Indicated It Wants to Make Trade Deal
• Farmer Sentiment Darkens as China Hopes Fade
• Grains Weaker as Forecast Improves and Tariffs Are Readied
• Turning Pivots Into Autonomous Crop Growing Machine
• China Warns It Will Retaliate if Trump Follows Through on Tariff Threat
• Congress to EPA: Stop Undercutting Farmers with Unjust Big Oil Exemptions
• CME Group’s Ag Economy Barometer Plummets in April
• As Farm Bankruptcies Climb, Ag Bankers Take Action
• Group Calls For A New Agency To Be Formed At USDA To Regulate Ag Industry Consolidation
• WTO Dispute Panel Report on China’s Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs) for Certain Agricultural Products
• 3 Big Things Today, May 8
• China Outlook Dims on Latest U.S. Trad Spat
• USDA Announces Dual-Use Insurance Grain-Graze Coverage
• EPA Fights for Refiner Waivers in Court Agency: ‘While RFS Encourages Use of Renewable Fuels, Not at All Costs’
• More Background on the Study That Claims Growing Corn Kills People
• Survey Highlights Negative Trend in Worker Availability
• Perdue Plows Ahead With USDA Relocation
• North Dakota Grain Growers to Leave National Association of Wheat Growers
• China Changes Laws in Trade War with U.S., Enforcement a Concern
• Disaster Aid Delays Leave Farmers Hanging By A Thread
• Chapter 12 Bankruptcies Don’t Fully Reveal the Pain in Farm Country
• A Bottom for Cattle?
• Is Anyone Watching the May WASDE Report?
• Lighthizer says China backed away from trade commitments
• ASA President ‘Shocked’ By Trump Tariff Tweet
• USTR Confirms Plan to Hike Tariffs on China
• Trump Threatens More Tariffs
• USDA Weekly Crop Progress Planting Slips Further Behind Average Pace
• Robo Farming: Sabanto Autonomously Plants Soybeans in Iowa, North America
• World Shares Mixed on Tuesday
• Farmer Suicides, Mental Health are Real Problems
• 3 Ways Consumer Trends Impact Your Farm
• Purdue On Assessing Ag Producers’ Purchasing And Marketing Skills
• Number of Employees Leaving USDA’s ERS Doubled Over Moving Plan
• Trump Sticks By Tariffs: Grassley Mum on Trump’s Trade Meeting Response to GOP Senators
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• Trump ‘Firm’ on China Structural Demands, Tariffs Part of Enforcement -Pence
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