Program enrollment decisions for the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs were made in March of 2025. However, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was not passed and signed into law until July, resulted in farmers receiving the higher of the PLC or ARC payments…

National Turkey Federation Chairman Jay Jandrain, president and CEO of Butterball, LLC, presented the National Thanksgiving Turkeys named Gobble and Waddle to President Donald Trump today during the 78th National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation. After receiving their formal pardons from the president in the White House’s Rose Garden Club, Gobble and…

Two cargo vessels were headed toward grain port terminals earlier this week near New Orleans to load with what will be the first U.S. soybean shipments to China since May. A third vessel is moved toward a Texas Gulf Coast terminal to be loaded with U.S. sorghum bound for China,…

By Ryan Hanrahan Civil Eats’ Meg Wilcox reported that “As the holidays approach, bird flu is once again sweeping through commercial and backyard poultry flocks, infecting and killing more than 8.9 million turkeys, chickens, and ducks in the U.S. since September.” “Consumers, however, are unlikely to feel a price squeeze…

Just after 9:30 a.m. CT, March corn was up 5¢ at $4.43¼ per bushel. January soybeans were up 2½¢ at $11.27¼ per bushel. “The market is now in full holiday mode, and this weighed on overnight trade,” said Karl Setzer, partner with Consus Ag Consulting. “Big losses were not seen…

By Jacob Orledge The North Dakota Industrial Commission on Tuesday gave the state bank a green light to proceed with two loan programs aiming to relieve agricultural producers hit by a combination of tariffs, low commodity prices, and high costs, as well as a series of summer storms.  The state-owned…