cautious rebound

Cautious Rebound on Wall Street

Dan Commodities, Economy

It’s been a cautious rebound this week for Wall Street. Mark Oppold has been watching the slow upward movement. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

Great Plains

American Agriculture History Minute: Crop Insurance, Conservation Techniques Revive Great Plains Agriculture

Dan American Agriculture History Minute, Conservation, Crop Insurance, Economy, Environment, This Land of Ours

I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains were not all that great. They found very harsh climate with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, hailstorms, floods and grasshoppers. It made for high risks and ruined many crops and many settlers that became financially ruined and either protested through the populist movement or went back …

cattle futures

Watching Prices for Cattle Futures

Dan Cattle, Commodities, Economy, Marketing

Some new highs have been seen when it comes to cattle futures. Mark Oppold has been watching what has transpired over the past week. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

Farm bankruptcies

Farm Bankruptcies Climbing in 2025

Dan Agri-Business, Economy

Farm bankruptcies grew 55 percent from 2023 to 2024 and are trending even higher in 2025. Farmers are continuing to struggle with low prices for their agricultural commodities and the high costs of inputs needed to grow those crops. Bloomberg says unpredictable tariffs, immigration overhauls, federal programs being cut, and frozen USDA funding are now part of the challenges farmers …

lower dollar

Lower Dollar Helps Grain Exports

Dan Commodities, Corn, Economy, Field Crops

Due to the lower dollar, grain exports are seeing two-year highs. Mark Oppold has a look at how that and other factors might affect the grain trade. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

Quarterly earnings

Quarterly Earnings Season Continues

Dan Economy

Quarterly earnings season continues this week. Mark Oppold has a look at what some reports are showing thus far, and what others are coming out yet this week. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024

white house

White House Budget Plan Proposes Local FSA, NRCS Office Closures

Dan Agri-Business, Economy, Funding, USDA-FSA, USDA-NRCS

The Trump administration is planning to severely scale back or outright eliminate funding for many programs across the Agriculture Department, according to White House documents obtained, as it slashes workers and closes offices at the local level. The ‘passback’ document from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposing fiscal 2026 funding levels would gut research and conservation efforts, trim …

uncertainty

CoBank: Tariffs Compounding Economic Anxiety

Dan Agri-Business, Economy, Export/Import, Tariff, Trade

A new report from CoBank says rapidly worsening expectations about everything from inflation to personal income to business conditions and labor supplies are elevating economic concerns. The question of whether the declining expectations will translate into slower spending and tightening profit margins will likely come into view by late June.  Uncertainty over trade and biofuel policy pulled corn, soybean, and …

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Varying Conditions Have Traders Looking Ahead

Dan Commodities, Economy

With the market closed tomorrow, traders have varying conditions to consider as they look ahead. Mark Oppold has more details. Sponsored ContentCIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsMarch 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024TriEst Ag Group: Partners in ProfitabilityApril 1, 2024