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What Happened In August, the USDA released the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Eye-popping yield expectations in corn and soybeans with projections for record crops provided the potential for prices to collapse. The report also indicated significant demand increases. In the end, the trade took the report as a buy opportunity, anticipating that the biggest yield numbers were likely already factored into prices. The expectation that U.S. farmers would reach nearly 190 bushels an acre in corn and close to 54 bushels an acre in soybeans may have been too robust. Since the report, corn prices…

Ahead of 9 a.m. CT, March corn was up less than a penny at $4.48¼ per bushel. January soybeans were down 6¾¢ at $11.50½ per bushel. March CBOT wheat was down 3½¢ at $5.55 per bushel. March KC wheat was down 3¾¢ at $5.41 per bushel. March Minneapolis wheat was up 2¢ at $5.83¼. This morning, USDA announced China is buying 792,000 metric tons of soybeans for the 2025/2026 marketing year. Ahead of 9 a.m. CT, January feeder cattle were down 95¢ at $325.33 per hundredweight (cwt). February live cattle were down 5¢ at $221.73 per cwt. February lean hogs…

Today’s machinery technology requires specific hardware and software to make it all work together. The ability to use your preferred platform is nearly as important as price and condition when it comes to buying a new-to-you machine.  “Changing over can be hard, and it’s one of the interesting dynamics that I’ve seen in the last few years people are choosing what equipment they buy based on what precision ag hardware works best in it,” said Nathan Faleide, creator of the Ag Uncensored podcast and newsletter. “If the machine is right for you in all the other ways but you want…

Horizon Farm Credit, which serves 100 counties in and near Pennsylvania, recently awarded $100,000 in prizes to 10 beginning farmers through their Farmers on the Rise program. Each recipient received $10,000 to help their operations grow and honor their outstanding achievements in agriculture. The 2025 awardees represent a range of agricultural operations across Farm Credit’s 100-county footprint. The following agriculturalists received this year’s honor: Zachary and Jane Blough of Federalsburg, Maryland Noah and Breann Detwiler of Telford, Pennsylvania Saj Dillard of Baltimore, Maryland Bobby and Sara Hricko of Elysburg, Pennsylvania Larry and Ashley Latta of Petersburg, Pennsylvania Wes and Jackie…

On November 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Army unveiled a long-awaited proposal to once again revise the definition of “waters of the United States,” known simply as WOTUS. The move is the administration’s formal response to the Supreme Court’s 2023 Sackett v. EPA decision and marks the latest major turn in a regulatory debate that has stretched across four presidencies. According to the pre-publication version of the proposed rule, the agencies say they are “seeking public comment on a proposed rule that revises key aspects of the definition of ‘waters of the United…

Key Points The longest U.S. government shutdown ended last week after the president signed a spending package that will fund USDA through the rest of the new fiscal year.USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service confirmed the Crop Progress report will not be released today, saying it is “working on getting all reports rescheduled.”Without new data, historical mid-November reports show harvest activity typically near completion for corn and soybeans, with winter wheat planting and emergence largely finished. The longest shutdown in U.S. history ended late Wednesday last week when the president signed a spending package that effectively reopened the government. Although the…

Image by Nokwan007, Shutterstock Top Third Ag Marketing, a division of StoneX Financial Services Inc., helps farmers become better agricultural marketers with the goal of marketing crops in the top third of prices. Mark Gold and his team provide AGDAILY.com with the latest information and a look ahead in their audio commentary. Listen to Mark Gold’s Weekly Grain Comments here! https://www.agdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Top-Third-agdaily-2025-11-17.mp3

A major federal court decision out of the California-based Ninth Circuit is reshaping how U.S. Department of Agriculture will have to think about GMO (genetically engineered) food disclosure, with big implications for the long-running debate over highly refined ingredients, QR-code labels, and what language companies can use on food packages. For now, day-to-day labeling obligations do not change, but the ruling sets the stage for USDA to rewrite key parts of its National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard in ways that could reach all the way back to the farm gate. On October 31, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for…

Ahead of 9 a.m. CT, December corn was up 4¼¢ at $4.34½ per bushel. January soybeans were up 20½¢ at $11.45 per bushel. March CBOT wheat was up 13¼¢ at $5.54¾ per bushel. March KC wheat was up 12¼¢ at $5.43¼ per bushel. March Minneapolis wheat was up 5½¢ at $5.81¾. Ahead of 9 a.m. CT, January feeder cattle were up $2.90 at $322.48 per hundredweight (cwt). December live cattle were down 8¢ at $221.28 per cwt. December lean hogs were up $1.83 at $81.23 per cwt. “Grain and soybean futures recovered somewhat from their Friday sell-off with soybean contracts…

Autonomous machines and technology hitting the market today eliminate the need for human labor for specific on-farm tasks. If you’re struggling to find reliable, affordable labor, these innovations may present solutions. But how do you know it’s time to invest? “This has been going on forever,” said Chad Hart, Extension economist at Iowa State University. “What is different now is that the sophistication of the machinery is such that it’s replacing labor that, say a generation or two ago, we couldn’t imagine that there would be a machine that would do that type of work.” Do Your Research “Farmers really…