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December corn ended the day up 2¢. January soybeans closed up 3½¢. December wheat contracts were also up at the close. CBOT wheat was up less than a penny. KC wheat was up 4¼¢. Minneapolis wheat was up 5¼¢. “Nearly all of today’s session was spent getting final positions in place ahead of tomorrow’s Presidential Election in the United States,” said Karl Setzer, partner at Consus Ag Consulting. “According to recent polls there is no clear winner projected, and this is adding to market uncertainty and volatility. This generated light buying in the commodities and selling in the equities, and…

Remember that first Karis Dadson costume that went viral the weekend before Halloween? Well, lots more people followed suit, much to the enjoyment of everyone who got to see their creativity!  From stuffed pigs to other species, TikTok creators were quick to get in on the action. @meggers3112 #showpigs #pigwalker #halloween #halloweencostume ♬ original sound – Know Good Sometimes, the costumes even got bigger.  @andreagroomsdogz Happy Halloween from Karis and Peppa#showpigs #halloween #halloweencostume @Dadson Farms Show Pigs ♬ Thriller – Trick or Treaters And, other species joined in on the action.  @gahtdangitcassie Keeping my pig on track while trick or…

This story will be continually updated as new cases are reported to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. To date, 442 dairy herds in 15 states have been found to be carrying Highly-Pathological Avian Influenza (HPAI), a virus originally found in wild birds and usually associated with turkey and poultry flocks. The first known transmission found in a dairy cow herd was announced on March 25 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with herds in Kansas and Texas suffering from illness and testing positive.  Since the original diagnosis, herds in New Mexico, Ohio, Idaho, Michigan, North Carolina, Colorado,…

By Ryan Hanrahan Successful Farming’s Chuck Abbott reported recently that “the lame-duck session of Congress offers a last chance to enact the new farm bill this year, but it would require compromise on a number of nettlesome policy disputes and an agreement among House and Senate leaders on how much to spend, said farm policy experts. The bill could also be sidetracked by overarching issues such as passing a government funding bill, they cautioned.” “Neither chamber has made much progress on the farm bill, now 14 months overdue. The House Agriculture Committee approved a Republican-written bill in May that is…

By Cami Koons The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag should work to reopen the shuttered chicken processing plant in Charles City. He also detailed USDA’s new milk testing program to prevent the spread of avian flu. He spoke during a press conference Thursday in Des Moines. Vilsack said the Pure Prairie Poultry bankruptcy represents an “unusual” and “very unfortunate” circumstance among USDA’s large portfolio of expanding processing capabilities around the country. Pure Prairie Poultry received $45.6 million in grants and loans from USDA in 2022 to expand…

The first round of mandatory milk testing in northern Utah identified bird flu infections in eight dairy herds, said the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food on Thursday. Utah is the 15th state to report the avian flu virus in dairy cattle since the disease was first identified in herds in Texas in March. To date, the Centers for Disease Control says the risk to the general public is low because genomic sequencing indicates the H5N1 virus has not evolved to become more infectious or transmissible among humans. There have been 39 human cases of bird flu this year, all…

1. Soybeans, Grains Higher in Overnight Trading Soybean and grain futures were higher in overnight trading on signs of strong demand for U.S. agricultural products.  Exporters sold 150,000 metric tons of soybean meal to an unnamed buyer for delivery in the 2024/2025 marketing year that started on Sept. 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report yesterday.  The agency on Wednesday reported soybean sales of 132,000 tons to China and 132,000 tons to an unknown destination, and sales of 273,048 tons of corn to unnamed countries.  Overseas buyers have committed to purchase 26.3 million metric tons of soybeans…

The lame-duck session of Congress offers a last chance to enact the new farm bill this year, but it would require compromise on a number of nettlesome policy disputes and an agreement among House and Senate leaders on how much to spend, said farm policy experts. The bill could also be sidetracked by overarching issues such as passing a government funding bill, they cautioned. Neither chamber has made much progress on the farm bill, now 14 months overdue. The House Agriculture Committee approved a Republican-written bill in May that is $33 billion over budget. Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee…

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the virus, according to health authorities in Washington and in Oregon, where the human cases were identified. A total of 39 people have tested positive in the U.S. this year, including nine from Washington, as the virus has infected poultry flocks and spread to more than 400 dairy herds, federal data show. All of the cases were farm workers who had known contact with infected animals, except for one person in Missouri.…

When input prices are high and crop prices are low, optimizing every pass across the field helps keep budgets in the black. While nozzle choice and maintenance may seem like small pieces of a weed management plan, they can offer impactful returns.  “If you know you’re using a good product but have weed escapes, your nozzles are definitely an easy thing to look at,” says Austin Weiss, a staff product application specialist at Syngenta.  Common Nozzle Options A fungicide application’s ideal nozzle may differ from a pre-emergence herbicide application’s preferred option. In a perfect world, farmers would optimize their nozzles for each…