Bloomberg's Brian K Sullivan, Joe Deaux, and Michael Hirtzer reported earlier this week that, "The Mississippi River isn’t out of the woods as falling water levels along its major tributaries…
David G. Savage reported in today's Los Angeles Times that, "The Supreme Court justices sounded wary Tuesday of California’s animal welfare law and its protections for breeding pigs, warning it…
Bloomberg writers Kim Chipman and Megan Durisin reported yesterday that, "Wheat closed at the highest price since June as traders considered a worsening Russia-Ukraine war against lackluster US grain demand."
Financial Times writers Roman Olearchyk, Mehul Srivastava, Max Seddon, and Christopher Miller reported today that, "Vladimir Putin has described Russia’s massive airstrikes on Ukraine, its most extensive since the early weeks…
New York Times writer Jacey Fortin reported yesterday that, "Low water levels in the Mississippi River have snarled barge traffic along one of the nation’s busiest waterways this week and…
Bloomberg writers Michael Hirtzer, Elizabeth Elkin, and Joe Deaux reported yesterday that, "A logjam of more than 100 ships, tugboats and their convoys of barges in the shrinking Mississippi River…
Sarah Bowman, writing on the front page of the Money section in today's USA Today, reported that, "Outside Evansville, near the corner of Indiana where it meets with Kentucky and…
Bloomberg writer Jinglu Gu reported yesterday that, "China has curbed exports of corn starch in a signal that the world’s biggest corn importer is likely worried about local supplies."
Wall Street Journal writer Yuka Hayashi reported late last week that, "Sharp rises in food and fertilizer prices caused by the war in Ukraine are creating the worst global food…
Elizabeth Findell, Dan Frosch and Cameron McWhirter reported on the front page of today's Wall Street Journal that, "A day after Hurricane Ian ripped through the beach towns and coastal cities…
DTN writer Russ Quinn reported yesterday that, "Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the third week of September 2022 continue to show varied prices. Five of the eight major…
Reuters writer Tom Polansek reported yesterday that, "The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too…
Bloomberg writer Aine Quinn reported today that, "Russia’s wheat harvest could reach a historic 100 million tons, according to consultant SovEcon, with the commodity piling up at home as the…
Patrick Thomas reported in today's Wall Street Journal that, "A lackluster U.S. harvest this year is setting back efforts to relieve a global food supply that has been constrained by…
CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange division, in partnership with the University of Missouri, released a report yesterday titled, "The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agricultural Economy."
Wall Street Journal writer Ken Thomas reported today that, "The White House said Thursday it had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a potential railway strike that threatened to shut…
Jeanna Smialek reported on the front page of today's New York Times that, "Price increases remained uncomfortably rapid in August as a broad array of goods and services became more…
Bloomberg writers Kim Chipman, Michael Hirtzer, and Tarso Veloso Ribeiro reported yesterday that, "Soybean futures climbed 5.4%, the most in more than a year, after a closely watched crop report…
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Board released its August 2022 Beige Book update, a summary of commentary on current economic conditions by Federal Reserve District. The report included several observations pertaining…
The USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) indicated on Thursday that, "Net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecast to increase by $7.3 billion (5.2 percent) from 2021 to…