Will USDA’s claims of record size corn and soybean crops pan out? Only time will truly tell, but the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour plans to give the market a better indication next week. The highly anticipated crop tour starts…
U.S. soybean farmer’s biggest foreign competitor Brazil faces new challenges as a judge moves to ban glyphosate until more toxicology studies are completed. However, that isn’t stopping the country from potentially increasing soybean acres up to 5%. “A substitute judge…
Friday a California jury found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by Dewayne Johnson alleging Roundup caused him cancer. The jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million. The verdict came from San Francisco’s Superior Court of California where a jury…
A year after another court denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has released its decision ordering the EPA to cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos in the next 60 days. Chlorpyrifos has recently been in…
More than 8,000 hogs have been culled so far, as China continues emergency inspections at pig farms and livestock markets to control the country’s first African swine fever case, announced this past Friday in the Liaoning province. The outbreak, in…
Strong June results capped a huge first half of 2018 for U.S. beef exports, according to data released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). June pork exports were lower than a year ago for the…
Near the end of August, roughly 100 scouts will head to the fields across the corn belt to gauge the nation’s corn and soybean crop’s yield potential with the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour. Because the crop is further along…
Authorities in Texas have confiscated 88 cattle that were in poor body condition after at least 18 other cattle from two different ranches had died. While the two cases were not related it reveals a possible problem of animal neglect…
An amendment added to the Senate’s “minibus” spending bill would grant livestock haulers another year-long extension to implement Electronic Logging Devices (ELD). The amendment was proposed by Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) to delay implementation of the ELD mandate until Sept.…
If the appearance of the soybean crop going into late July predicts how it will yield, the 2018 crop in Illinois is going to be a high-yielding one. The crop in Illinois was rated at 78% good + excellent (G+E)…