11.29.2021

• Grape consumption benefits cholesterol metabolism
• Almond Alliance names new CEO
• Medfly quarantine set in SoCal
• A Hint of Panic in the Wheat Market?
• USDA Begins Accepting Applications For $1.15 Billion In Loans And Grants For Rural Broadband Access
• Washington Week Ahead: Dems face spending stalemate, unfinished Biden agenda
• An electric tractor may be in your future
• How shorter crops could give farming a longer life
• USDA invests in strengthening meat supply chain
• Nutrient efficiency is on deck in agriculture
• Russian wheat rises for sixth week in a row amid strong demand
• Two proposals, two different solutions, no easy answer for cattle markets
• Pesticide industry battling supply chain challenges, working to ensure 2022 availability
• Using genetics as a risk management tool
• Rural Route Hero: USPS Mail Carrier Rescues Cattle Producer After Near-Death Tractor Accident
• USDA Agriculture And Related Industries Provide 10.3% Of Employment
• Full Year: Deere & Co’s Sales Up 24%, Net Income Doubles–$6 Billion
• Deere & Co. Issues Outlook For 2022

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11.22.2021

• Danger signs for 2023 farm bill in partisan rancor on Capitol Hill
• 11.22.2021 Crop Progress Report PDF
• Taxlink Charitable Remainder Trusts
• Cash Market Moves | Why All the Fuss Over the Lysine Shortage?
• Weekly Grain Movement – The pace slows down Nov 22, 2021
• 20 states ask Supreme Court to kill California’s Prop 12
• Farmers optimistic despite rising costs
• Happy days are here, again, for the ethanol industry
• Agriculture can be a climate leader with ‘build back’ funding, says Vilsack
• Cattle groups disagree on new legislation that would reshape U.S. cattle markets
• USDA issuing $270M in pandemic assistance to poultry, livestock contract producers
• Inflation—This Year’s Uninvited Holiday Guest
• U.S. Looking to Suspend Brazilian Beef Imports
• Farm Policy Facts: Report Highlights Issues, Challenges In The U.S. Beef Market
• Cattle Groups Disagree On Legislation To Reshape U.S. Cattle Markets
• Republican Ag Committee Members Call On EPA To Rescind Chlorpyrifos Decision
• Oil Crops Outlook

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11.17.2021

• Ag Trade: California Ports to Charge for Containers Left at Terminals – DTN
• Kub’s Den | Put Your Own Risk Tolerance to the Test
• Ethanol Waiting for Biden RFS Action | Biofuels Leaders Ask Biden to Fulfill Campaign Pledge to Support RFS
• Input crisis ahead?
• Ag lender survey: 80% of borrowers to see profit in 2021
• Investment advice for a start-up beef herd
• Rotate varieties that resist soybean cyst nematode
• Infrastructure package is ‘monumental step forward,’ says Biden
• Major Missouri employers file joint suit against OSHA vaccine mandate
• Biden, Xi Hold Virtual Summit, as Brazilian Soy and Corn from Ukraine in Focus
• Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys- 2021 Third Quarter Farmland Values Soar
• Trade Mentioned, Not a Focus of Biden-Xi Talks as China Warns U.S. It’s ‘Playing with Fire’ on Taiwan
• Bonnie confirmed as undersecretary for farm production and conservation
• AFBF opposes Build Back Better bill, despite ag funding
• EPA criticized for delay in releasing ethanol blending targets
• Farm Bureau “Build Back Better” Act Would Hurt Rural America
• USDA: Nearly Half Of States Lost Population In Rural Areas In 2010-20

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11.08.2021

• Western Growers: Infrastructure bill delivers major water improvements for West
• Policy specialist expects bigger push to tie conservation compliance with revenue protection in next farm bill
• Ag Secretary comments on passage of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• The House passes a trillion dollar infrastructure bill
• Chemical, Mechanical and Physical Weed Control is the Future
• USDA underscores commitment to climate action at COP26
• US Ag at COP 26 Climate Conference | Vilsack Sees Action Needed to Combat Climate, Incentivize Farmers
• Understand how options work
• Bringing Wall Street to Main Street
• USDA issues $1.8B in ARC, PLC payments
• EPA denies one small refinery exemption
• Getting insight on the upcoming supply challenges of 2022
• Report: Governments must ‘drastically improve’ efforts to reduce emissions
• Fertilizer Prices: Another Week, Another Record- but Corn-Soybean Ratio Still Seen as Relatively Strong
• Jerry Gulke: Pre-Report Grain Market Jitters
• Farm Equipment Magazine Survey Finds 54% Of Machinery Dealers Don’t Support John Deere Workers’ Strike
• Restaurant Chains File Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Large Pork Producers
• Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Is A Win For the Cattle Industry
• USDA: Most Counties Exempt Groceries From Sales Taxes

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11.02.2021

• 3 Big Things Today, November 2, 2021
• Avoiding Issues with MRL-Based Almond Rejections
• USDA Provides $1.8 Billion To Offset Market Fluctuations
• Ag Interest Rate Snapshot
• Understanding the Cash Cattle Rally | The Cash Cattle Rally is More Than Meets the Eye
• Chemical and Fertilizer Crunch Overshadow an Above-Average Harvest for Farmers
• Ag Marketing IQ brought to you by Does your 2022 marketing plan align with your production plan?
• Farmer groups oppose fertilizer tariffs
• Watching costs key to handling thinner margins
• Crop Progress Report | Nov. 1, 2021 (PDF)
• Strike continues as Deere workers consider new offer
• Timeline of the Deere, UAW strike
• Combine fires: a $20 million avoidable problem
• From Historic Conservation Funding to Farmer Debt Relief, Who Will Pay for Biden’s Revised Build Back Better Plan?
• Manchin taps brakes on Build Back Better spending package
• Agriculture Reconciliation Provisions Unveiled
• Congressman David G. Valadao Leads Letter to President Biden and Governor Newsom Requesting Fed and State Emergency Declarations for Recent Storms

admin2021-11-02T12:12:19+00:00November 2nd, 2021|

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10.29.2021

• New Resource for Small Olive Oil Farmers
• New AI Institute Expands UC Merced’s Smart, Sustainable Ag Effort
• Congressman David G. Valadao Leads Letter to President Biden and Governor Newsom Requesting Fed and State Emergency Declarations for Recent Storms
• Ag Sec’y Vilsack Comments On President’s Framework For The Build Back Better Act
• Biden reaches deal on Build Back Better framework
• New report offers farm shop insight
• New ag trade education council formed
• Export sales: Grains trend lower | 10.28.2021
• The effects of the Deere strike? Dealers are mum
• COVID-19 cases, deaths among meatpacking workers 3 times worse than thought
• Newest Tax Proposal in Washington Won’t Impact Most Farmers Today, But Tax Expert Warns it Could Be a Trojan Horse for Higher Taxes
• Malware Disrupts Food Supply Chain | Food and Ag Sector Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks
• DC Signal to Noise | Q&A with David Wasserman
• Avoid fall delivery basis contract confusion
• Genetic engineering is the future of agriculture, scientists tell lawmakers
• Blue jackets return to Indianapolis for 2021 FFA Convention
• GOP Senators want RFS meeting with Biden
• USB farmer leaders train on benefits of gene editing
• The potential ag trade impact of China’s CPTPP bid
• NIFA invests more than $50 million towards beginning farmers, ranchers
• Rising input costs making tough decisions for farmers
• ADM, Gevo Sign MoU to Produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel, About Half of ADM’s Ethanol Production Could Go To Jet Fuel
• CFTC nominee backs agency role in carbon markets, climate concerns
• USDA Announces Initial Supporters of Sustainable Productivity Coalition

admin2021-10-29T10:23:36+00:00October 29th, 2021|

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