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05Feb

Exports in 2019: Bigger Risk, Bigger Reward?

As per capita animal protein consumption in the U.S. soars to all-time highs in 2019, the U.S. animal protein sectors will need to increase their focus on international markets for growth. Export growth will be key for U.S. beef, pork and chicken producers as growing meat supplies and processing capacity outstrip domestic demand, according to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. This has some producers concerned because the more exports play a role in supply and demand, the more...

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04Feb

Makers Of A Known Carcinogen Just Threw Shade On Corn Farmers

This year’s Super Bowl between the third and fourth best teams in the NFL was a yawner. It did, however, provide some Super Bowl firsts, like the oldest quarterback and oldest coach ever to win the big game, and the first Super Bowl MVP who had been suspended for the first four games of the season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing substance policy. Most of us outside of New England may soon forget the game, but many farmers are likely to...

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30Jan

USDA Export Sales Numbers Will Be Published Beginning January 31

Due to the recent lapse in federal funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has not published a weekly export sales report since December 20, 2018. FAS has resumed daily reporting of export sales and will implement the following schedule to bring weekly reporting up to date: The report for the week ending December 20, 2018 will be published Thursday, January 31, 2019. The report for the week ending December 27, 2018, will be published February 7, 2019. The report...

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29Jan

Foot-and-Mouth Disease Found on South Korean Dairy Forces Quarantine

Areas of South Korea are on quarantine after a dairy farm was found to have foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in its cow herd. The outbreak was identified on a 120 cow dairy near the city of Anseong, which is 67.6 km (42 miles) from the capitol city of Seoul. According to a statement from the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs released on Jan. 28, this is first FMD outbreak identified in the country since March of last year. Cows...

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24Jan

House Ag Chair Calls for Congress to Approve Wall Funding

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) on Tuesday called for Congress to end the government shutdown and provide the funding President Donald Trump is demanding for a border wall. “So I’m in the room with the other leadership, and I told them you guys are making a mistake; give Trump the money,” Peterson told KFGO radio’s Joel Heitkamp. “Give him the whole thing that he wants and put strings on it so that you make sure he puts the wall...

By Ethanol, Grains, Livestock
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