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Agricultural commodity company Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is facing a lawsuit alleging that the Illinois-based company intentionally failed to test and maintain safety systems on its grain equipment for years, contributing to a 2023 explosion that left a worker in a coma. According to Reuters, the lawsuit, filed in Macon County Circuit Court, claims that ADM’s negligence in maintaining fire and explosion suppression systems at its Decatur facility resulted in serious harm to employee Antonio McElrath. The explosion occurred in April 2023 at ADM’s West Plant in Decatur, when McElrath was instructed by a supervisor to shut down a grain “leg” tube…

Halloween is a bizarre holiday. While our kids are growing up we constantly warn them about taking candy from strangers. And what do we do on Halloween? We encourage them to shake down strangers for candy! We want our children to be themselves. But on Halloween, they are pretty much required to be anyone other than themselves. No wonder today’s youth have such a hard time figuring out their identities. Most Halloween costumes were homemade when I was a kid. You could don some of Dad’s old work clothes, smear some grime on your face and go trick-or-treating as a…

For the second year, AGDAILY is excited to introduce three exceptional FFA members who will be on the ground at the upcoming National FFA Convention, helping us capture stories and covering the event through articles and visuals. These students bring a wealth of leadership experience, passion for agriculture, and a unique perspective on the FFA community. Keep an eye out for them as they prepare to share the excitement and impact of the convention and FFA members nationally.  Maura Martha Barrera, South Carolina Image courtesy of Maura Martha Barrera Maura Martha Barrera is an FFA member with a deep passion…

John R. Tyson, heir to Tyson Foods Inc., pleaded guilty to charges of drunken driving and other offenses following an arrest in June. He agreed to pay fines but avoided further jail time. According to Bloomberg and court records, Tyson, the great-grandson of the company’s founder, was fined a total of $960 and ordered to complete 32 hours of community service.  The legal proceedings stem from a June 13 incident in which John Tyson was arrested at approximately 1:30 a.m. by the University of Arkansas Police Department. He faced charges of driving while intoxicated, careless driving, and making an improper…

December corn is up less than a penny this morning. November soybeans are up 5½¢. December wheat contracts are higher. CBOT wheat is up 4¼¢. KC wheat is up 4¾¢. Minneapolis wheat is up 2¼¢. This morning USDA announced several export sales: Mexico is buying 169,926 metric tons of corn for the 2024/2025 marketing year.South Korea is buying 130,000 metric tons of corn for the 2024/2025 marketing year.Unknown destinations are buying: 198,192 metric tons of corn for the 2024/2025 marketing year, and 380,000 metric tons of soybeans for the 2024/2025 marketing year. Later today, USDA is expected to release the…

Top Third Ag Marketing helps farmers become better agricultural marketers with the goal of marketing crops and livestock 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 here! https://www.agdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/top-third-agdaily-2024-10-21.mp3 The post Markets in Minutes: Top Third looks ahead for week of Oct. 21, 2024 appeared first on AGDAILY.

By Ryan Hanrahan Reuters’ Jody Godoy reported at the end of this past week that “the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing farm equipment maker Deere over the company’s repair policies, according to a filing made public on Thursday. The investigation, authorized on Sept. 2, 2021, focuses on repair restrictions manufacturers place on hardware or software, often referred to by regulators as impeding customers’ ‘right to repair’ the goods they purchase.” “The probe was made public through a filing by data analytics company Hargrove & Associates Inc, which sought to quash an FTC subpoena seeking market data submitted to it…

Drive across the Iowa countryside, and you’re likely to see hog barns in the distance. Much of the nation’s pork is produced in these long, metal-sided buildings, with hog production concentrated in the Midwest and North Carolina. But few people not directly involved in pig farming have the chance to look inside — until about four years ago. Using GoPro cameras and social media, Sawyer Whisler brings the public behind typically closed doors to see what day-to-day life is like on a modern hog farm. The sixth-generation farmer prides himself on being 100% transparent, sharing numbers, answering questions, and showing…

The necessity that mothered Landon Tomica’s award-winning Shop Hack entry was organization on a budget. “I needed a way to organize my sockets, which were lying in a drawer, but really didn’t want to spend the money on the organizers I had seen in stores and online,” the Trenton, Kentucky, farmer explains. “I never liked my sockets rolling around in the drawer, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of money organizing them.” Tomica helps out on his family’s farming operation in the southwest Kentucky community in addition to working as a repair technician at a Hutson Inc. dealership…

Soybean futures higher overnight; ethanol output jumps to highest in a month Gil Gullickson 1. Soybean futures slightly higher overnightSoybean futures were modestly higher in overnight trading as planting in Brazil, the world's largest exporter of the oilseeds, remains well behind schedule and as drought spreads in the U.S.Farmers in the South American country were only 8.2% done with planting as of this week, consultancy AgRural said. That's less than half of the 17% that was in the ground at this point last year. Extremely dry weather has plagued producers in growing areas so far this season. Still, rain has been falling…