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The Trump administration has announced a 90-day tariff-free ground beef imports to cut prices. The deal allows up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to enter the U.S. tariff-free for 90 days, with a commitment to sell at 25 percent below current market prices. In a post on X, President Trump said, “Today, I concluded a deal to substantially …
Peanut farmers know that about 30 percent of their crop on certain years are exported to other countries. Well, who’s buying up the peanuts and is our favorite customers? Right now, the number one buyer has been Mexico at 148,000 metric tons this year and the following that was Canada. Following recent changes China has moved up to number one …
American Agriculture History Minute In 1873, Scottish Angus cattle made an important early appearance in the United States when George Grant brought four Angus bulls from Scotland to Victoria, Kansas. Grant hoped to introduce the new breed to American cattlemen and demonstrate the potential of Angus cattle in the U.S. livestock industry. Although Grant died just five years later, his …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released the 2026 and 2027 milk price forecast. Here is what World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski discussed about the price forecast. “Our class 3 price forecast for 2026 is up $0.10 per hundredweight to $16.25 per hundredweight,” said Jekanowski. “Our class 4 2026 price was reduced $0.25 per hundredweight, is now forecast …
Peanut farmers have a checkoff program that funds the National Peanut Board based in Atlanta, Georgia. This year they’ve had their program of work planning session and how to spend 13.1 million dollars. This is the amount of money they’ll have this year to promote peanuts. They also are talking about their new platform, Unifying Peanuts, with their new theme …
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report released after the close today, most analysts suggest it will not offer much help to the cash market or futures. In fact, one analyst called the cattle complex a train wreck in slow motion. Bottom line analysts say they must agree with live cattle and feeder cattle futures ending the week near nine-month lows. …
The Beginning of Modern Farming What we consider modern farming in the United States can trace many of its practices and innovations back to the agricultural changes that took place in the 18th century during what is commonly known as the British Agricultural Revolution. As Mark Oppold explains in this edition of American Agriculture History Minute, agriculture certainly existed long …
Roger McEowen, Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation at Washburn University, spoke with us recently about laws surrounding H-2A workers and their effects on the agriculture industry. Here is what he shared. “You know, trends, it’s been up significantly for quite some time, but really ramped up in the past year or two,” McEowen commented. “So it’s indispensable for a …
USDA’s stocks and processing for peanuts has been announced with some new numbers lowering the number of peanuts that will go into the market this year because of a cut back in acres. There’s 5.4 billion pounds expected. That’s 2,709,000. That’s down 25 percent with a lower harvested area and offset by higher yield. The higher yield is about 200 …
The Pro Farmer Crop Tour winds up today with USDA Crop Scouts heading out a week from today. Two Pro Farmer teams meet in Rochester, Minnesota tonight, one coming from the eastern Corn Belt, one from the west. They’ll compile data from the tour this week combined with other data they’ve received from other crop areas that were not part …
