March corn is up a penny this morning while March soybeans are down less than a penny. March wheat contracts are lower this morning. CBOT wheat is down 5¢. KC wheat is down 3¢. Minneapolis wheat is down 3¼¢. “Moderate pressure is being seen in the market this morning, which…

Recently, I went on a cross country (more like cross county, I suppose) tractor drive to pick up a new-to-us drill. I think I crossed three counties. It only took about an hour and half to get there. Then pulled the drill back home. I traveled a lot of roads…

By Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats raised concerns Wednesday that Republicans have scheduled a hearing for one of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees before he completed the necessary paperwork and an FBI background check. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member Martin Heinrich…

By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Rains set to arrive in Argentina in mid-January should bring relief to soybeans and corn in the core farm region hit by a recent dry spell, a climatologist at the authoritative Buenos Aires grains exchange told Reuters on Wednesday. Eduardo Sierra, a meteorological…

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek Jan 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of the virus circulating in commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday, in a sign of the widespread and devastating nature…

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Jan 8 (Reuters) – More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday, following the first death of a patient from the virus in the United States. Avian…