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A quieter end-of-week trade across the markets as the focus now shifts to next Tuesday’s WASDE report. China stepped back in for more U.S. beans today, though traders remain cautious, watching closely to see when those shipments

(Washington, D.C., December 5, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced major updates to federal crop insurance, reducing red tape for farmers, modernizing long-standing policies, and expanding access to critical risk protection beginning with

AUSTIN — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller praised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for granting conditional approval of Exzolt Cattle-CA1, the first topical drug ever approved in the United States to treat and control both New

ATLANTA — The Coca-Cola Co. may expand into different countries, categories and packaging sizes with its dairy protein products once more capacity comes online, said James Quincey, chief executive officer, on Dec. 2 at the Morgan Stanley

USDA is launching a unified New World Screwworm (NWS) website to centralize information on the government’s “aggressive, whole-of-government response” to the parasitic flies. While NWS has not crossed into the United States, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health

The day after Thanksgiving, November 28, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced the removal of the 5 percent prevented planting buy-up coverage option many South Dakota farmers rely on and purchase each year

Early bids are floating around $218 live in Kansas and $216 live with $335 to $340 dressed in Nebraska, but no trade has happened yet. Asking prices remain firm — $225 in the South and $340-plus in

PORTLAND, OR (December 2025) — The global appetite for plant-based proteins is transforming agriculture, trade, and consumer markets. The sector is projected to reach $43 billion by 2034,1 nearly doubling from today’s value as more consumers seek protein sources

ARLINGTON, VA – The U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) commended 74 House lawmakers today for sending a bipartisan letter urging the U.S. government to leverage the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) 2026 Joint Review to

(Bismarck, ND) — A district court judge has ruled that an underground carbon dioxide storage law in North Dakota is unconstitutional. On Tuesday, Northeast Judicial District Judge Anthony Swain Benson ruled in favor of the Northwest Landowners

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Growth Energy today joined organizations representing ethanol producers, oil refiners, fuel marketers, travel plazas, truck stops and convenience store retailers to express the need for long-term policy certainty across the transportation fuel sector. In a letter

Rising input costs for farmers has been an issue the Trump administration has made a policy priority as it advances through its first year – and with good reason. Soybean producers are staring down the barrel of

The Trump administration anticipates it will be ready to announce an aid package for American farmers within two-and-a-half weeks, as well as a deal on Chinese soybean purchases. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins made the announcement this week

Feeders found another gear today, helping to lift the cattle complex even as the industry keeps a close eye on another confirmed case of New World Screwworm, this one even closer to the U.S. border. That’s adding

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has made U.S. corn growers more globally competitive and should be extended for 16 years, according to testimony today from the president of the National Corn Growers Association before U.S. trade officials. “The

Grain markets are mostly lower at midday Wednesday as we continue to slowly receive CFTC fund data and more. Also, China/US soybean trade is in the news again today. Ryan Moe, Regional Director for StoneX, joins us

NMPF built on its longstanding ties with Mexico during a USDA agricultural trade mission from Nov. 3–6, where Jaime Castaneda, executive vice president for policy development and strategy, and Shawna Morris, executive vice president for trade policy

Kansas Congressman Tracy Mann says the long-running debate over Waters of the United States may finally be nearing an end. Mann joined us this morning to talk about the recent WOTUS update, the path forward on the

According to the U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council’s (USGBC’s) 2025/2026 Corn Harvest Quality Report, the 15th such annual survey published globally this week, the 2025 U.S. corn crop is projected to be the largest on record, coming in

India is signaling confidence that it will finalize a new trade deal with the United States before the end of 2025, with Reuters reporting that most outstanding issues between the two nations have been largely resolved. The

  The Renewable Fuels Association thanked the Trump administration for its effort to enforce a 2019 trade agreement with China, noting in comments to the U.S. Trade Representative that China didn’t satisfy its commitments. The RFA says