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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/2025/08/Top-Third-agdaily-2025-09-08.mp3 The post Markets in Minutes: Top Third looks ahead for week of Sept. 8, 2025 appeared first on AGDAILY.

By Michael Hogan HAMBURG, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Chicago corn futures fell on Monday as traders awaited U.S. government harvest estimates later this week, with a record U.S. crop expected. A weaker dollar, making U.S. supplies cheaper in export markets, underpinned grains and soybeans. USD/ Chicago Board of Trade most-active corn Cv1 was down 0.4% at $4.16-1/4 per bushel by 1158 GMT. Wheat Wv1 rose 0.1% to $5.20-1/2 a bushel, soybeans Sv1 rose 0.1% to $10.28-1/4 a bushel. Dealers were positioning ahead of world supply and demand reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday, including U.S. corn and soybean harvests. Matt Ammermann, commodity risk manager at StoneX, said…

The Old Farmer’s Almanac has officially released its 2025-26 Winter Weather Forecast, and the message for the United States is straightforward: “Mostly mild — with pockets of wild.” Much of the country is expected to see near-normal to slightly milder conditions overall, but significant cold and snow events are still projected for specific regions. “Don’t lose track of your snow shovels and umbrellas,” editor Carol Connare reminded readers. “Most areas will experience near-normal to slightly milder temperatures, but from the Appalachians south through the Southeast and Florida, and westward across the Ohio Valley, we’re predicting a colder-than-normal winter.” On the…

The House is set to pass a five-year reauthorization of USDA’s grain inspection program, and a top adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s recommendations should finally be released this week. The bipartisan United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act that the House will consider includes some updates to the existing law, which expires Sept. 30, that are aimed in part at promoting new technology.  The bill would require USDA to “prioritize the adoption of improved grain grading technology” to enable the “efficient, accurate, and consistent grading of grain,” and the legislation would…

Technology, efficiency, and safety were common themes at this year’s Farm Progress Show. Larger machines to provide more power and the ability to cover more acres in a day were highlights of many manufacturers’ displays. A bit of nostalgia played out as well, with some throwback colors and styling drawing a lot of attention. Favorable weather meant big crowds checking out the latest and greatest in equipment. Read on for some of the highlights! Case IH The company displayed a throwback tractor in Steiger green paired with the red version of the new Steiger 785 Quadtrac. With 853 peak hp,…

The month of August is a critical time across the Corn Belt. It can be make or break for kernel fill and overall yield. To understand the month’s impacts on the corn crop, we asked agronomists in some of the top corn-growing states to describe August in a single word, reflecting the crop’s progress, condition, and challenges in their regions. Here’s what they had to say. Disease Wyffels agronomist Eric Wilson summed up August in Iowa with the word “disease.” Wilson supports southern and northeast Iowa. In mid-August, he said southern rust and heat were the biggest threats to yield.…

By Cami Koons Iowa farmers are gearing up for harvest season, as the latest crop progress and condition report notes 9% of corn acres across the state have reached maturity and farmers have scattered reports of soybeans dropping leaves. The crops continue to develop, with 63% of corn acres across the state now dented and 19% of soybeans coloring, for the reporting period of Aug. 25–Aug. 31.  Corn condition was rated at 84% good to excellent, the same as last week, while soybean condition at 77% good to excellent declined slightly from the week prior.  The report, written by U.S.…

The Trump administration’s removal of federal support for solar power, along with eliminating tax credits over the next three years, seems likely to cancel some projects, but industry experts insist that demand growth is too strong to stop solar entirely.  President Donald Trump has termed renewable energy a “green new scam” while promoting fossil fuels for energy dominance, and he got congressional Republicans to repeal Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act subsidies as part of a sweeping domestic policy bill enacted in July. Meanwhile, USDA promised in March that solar panels on productive farmland would lose their prioritization points when seeking funding,…

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Thursday the “unease with the current farm economy” many farmers are experiencing is part of President Donald Trump’s larger plan to put America first, and she pledged the agricultural outlook would improve as he completes “even more exciting” trade deals. “These trade renegotiations, opening up the markets, cutting deals….. Bangladesh, just, I believe, yesterday, announced a massive purchase of wheat from America. We’ll have more of those coming soon,” she said during an interview on Fox Business Network. “The golden age for our American farmers is around the corner.”  The Agriculture Department continues to forecast higher farm…

A half-million-acre stretch of wilderness in western New Mexico, listed for $115 million, has new owners. The Great Western Ranch, one of the largest privately held properties in the United States, sold in July after just 10 months on the market — an unusually quick turnaround for a property of its scale. This gives you a better sense of what that looks like:   504,801 acres790 square miles70 miles from east to west29 miles from north to south76% the size of Rhode Island  The Great Western Ranch is located outside Quemado, near the Arizona border, and about 150 miles west of…