Cooperative Grocers Positioning Strategically to Deliver Community Value

Congress Poised to Deliver Vital Aid to the Countryside?

2025 Crop Planning

Dairy Rollercoaster

H-2A Wage Violations Against Workers Hired by Farm Labor Contractors

Preparing Consumers for Anticipated Soaring Pecan Prices During Holiday Season

State-Level Effects of Potential Trade Policy Shifts on Southern U.S. Agriculture

A Statistically Lousy Year for Cotton Prices

Rising Prices at Year End

Benefits of Debt Consolidation to Improve Short-Term Liquidity

Federal Estate Tax and Gift Tax Limits Announced For 2025

It’s Time for the Panic Button

Peanut Stocks Expected to Remain Low in 2025

A Look at the Livestock Forage Disaster Program 

Upcoming Deadline: Beneficial Ownership Information 

UPDATED Dec 4, 2024…..Corporate Transparency Act Deadline Upcoming

Sifting through the Rice Market: Rising Supplies and Growing Competition

An Old Menace

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Peanut Farmers

Preparing for the (Camo) Season

What a Difference an Election Can Make

Can Yield Upside Risk Eclipse Price Downside Risk Protection in ECO Crop Insurance?

A Look at the Hog Market

Profitability According to Farmers

Urban Agriculture in the South: Addressing Food Insecurity and Social Inequality through Community Gardens

What to Expect from India’s Removal of the Export Ban on White Non-Basmati Rice

Changes to Supply and Demand Estimates in the November WASDE

Feeder Cattle Futures Prices

Census of Agriculture Production Expenses for Southern States

Making Effective Board Leaders in Your Cooperative

Election Impacts on Current Ag Committee Members

Corn Market Outlook: Higher Ending Stocks, Steady Demand, and Price Pressure

Egg Prices Are On The Rise….Again

Addressing the Gap in Participation Between Whole Farm Revenue Protection and Other MPCI Products

Opportunities for Southeastern-grown Value-added Mango Products: Conversations with fresh-cut produce professionals

Trade Policy Scenarios after the U.S. Presidential Election and What They Could Mean for Southern U.S. Agriculture

Global Wheat Shortfalls Could Signal Bullish Potential for U.S. Wheat

Fewer Heifers on Feed

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Cotton Farmers

What Other State Decisions Can Tell Us About Right-to-Farm Laws

Economic Assistance for the 2024 Crop Year Starting to Take Shape

October WASDE Report Decreases U.S. Cotton Production, Mill Use and Exports

An Alternative Big Mac

2024 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

Post-Emergent Dicamba Likely Unavailable in 2025, Controversial Beyond Then

Increase in Cost of Production Contributing to Trade Deficit

Recap of the October WASDE for Grains and Soybeans

Almost Time to Think Turkey

When is an Hour of Operator Labor, Not Just an Hour of Operator Labor?

Will the U.S. Supreme Court Be Asked to Send EPA Back To the Drawing Board on CAFO Permits?  

USDA Farm Income Projections… Misused and Abused

A Soybean Pricing Alternatives at Harvest

The Three Ps of Herd Expansion: Profit, Pasture and Patience

Preparing For Your Preparer

The Food Insecurity Challenge: A Snapshot of the Southern U.S.

Shifting Winds: The Changing Landscape of Cotton Production and Exports in the U.S. and Brazil (Part 2)

Brazil Expected to Continue Dominance of Global Soybean Exports

Seasonal Price Trends & Inventory

Increase in PRF Adoption in the Southern Region

Why You Should Run for Your Cooperative Board

The Losses are Mounting…and are Projected to get Worse

Low River Levels on the Mississippi River: Not the Three-peat We Want

Cattle on Feed and Record High August Fed Cattle Weights

Contract Broilers Growers Could See Changes in Their Pay Arrangements

Beekeeping Operations and Revenue Sources in Alabama 

USDA Projects a Widening Trade Deficit for Fiscal Year 2025

Minimal Price Gains Amid Record Yields: A Tough Outlook for Grain Producers in 2024

Summer Slide

Empowering the Next Generation: The Perks of Paying Your Farm Kids

Cell Cultured Meat

Staying Positive While We Wait for a Farm Bill

Lower Interest Rates Create Opportunities for Managing Debt on the Farm

Inventories, Weather, and Local Hay Markets

National Corn Yields and Deviation from Trendline Over Time

Hunting Leases and Rural Land

Shifting Winds: The Changing Landscape of Cotton Production and Exports in the U.S. and Brazil (Part 1)

Irrigation Water Pumping Costs in the Mid-South

Feeder Heifer Imports from Mexico and U.S. Herd Rebuilding

Land Ownership and the Preservation of Family Farm Legacies 

Timeline of the ARC and PLC Programs: Why Are Payments Received a Year Later?

Are the Pre-Season Polls (Crop Production Reports) Accurate?

U.S. Beef Imports: A Quick Look at Recent Trends

To Store or Not to Store?  Old Crop Exit Strategies 

How has the Pandemic Changed the House Price Landscape in the South?

The Economic Toll of Animal Diseases on U.S. Soybean Exports

Can I deduct timber loss from natural disasters?

The Relationship Between Formula and Negotiated Cash Fed Cattle Prices

The Week that Followed the August WASDE Report

Making Cooperatives More Relevant and Exciting

If It’s Not Time to Hit the Panic Button… We Are Getting Close

Farmers’ Internet Access Improving but Still Lacking

Finding the GOAT

Storing corn or soybeans: what is the futures market incentivizing?

Changes in Average Age of Producers in Southern States, 2017 and 2022

Challenges for U.S. Fruits and Vegetables (Part 2)

Commodity Program Payment Limits, Farm Entity Creation, and Implications for the Next Farm Bill

Dairy Cow Slaughter Posts Strong Rebound

GDP and the Farm Economy

Texas v. New Mexico

Will We See a New Farm Bill This Year?

Digging into Dirt: Southern States Adoption of No-Till and Reduced Tillage Practices 

Cattle and Drought in the South and Southeast 

Review of 2023 STAX Payments and Implications for Price Risk Management in Cotton

In Landmark Ruling SCOTUS Overturns ‘Chevron’ Deference

Understanding the Growing U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit (Part 2): What’s Happening with Imports?

Hiring H-2A Workers through Farm Labor Contracts

Growing On-feed Inventory, Lower Placements, and No Sign of Heifer Retention

Having a Way Out

Department of Labor Finalizes New H-2A Regulations

Trade Policy Also Important in Next Farm Bill

Using Risk Preference to Inform Crop Insurance Decision-Making

Retail Meat Prices Ease a Little

The Net Short Hedge Fund Position in ICE Cotton Futures

Natural Disaster Insurance and Markets Under Pressure: New Challenges to Managing Risk in Rural Communities

Challenges for U.S. Fruits and Vegetables

The Disparity Between Crop Prices Received and Input Prices Paid

Falling Corn Prices, Higher Calf Prices

Revenue Protection Weighted Average Coverage Levels by County and Crop

Is the Current CSA Model Sustainable? A Lesson from Korea

Estate Transition Planning

New Record High Cattle Prices

Changes to Planted Acreage for Southern Crops in the June Acreage Report

Transitioning to Organic in the South

Understanding the Growing U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit: The Fall in Exports

Liquidity and Working Capital a Priority

The Relative Value of Bred Cows

Current Farm Bill Negotiations for the Marketing Assistance Loan Program

Animal Ag in the “Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2024”

Government Incentives for Agricultural Generational Transfer? 

Incorporating Conservation Practices into Leases

A Cattle On Feed Preview

June WASDE Report Projects Increases to Wheat Prices, Decreases to Cotton Prices

Product of the U.S.A. Rule and Trade Implications

China lifts ban on Australian beef: Is there cause for concern in the U.S.?

Farmland Value Trends in South

From Byproduct to Beef: Revolutionizing Cattle Feeding for Sustainability and Savings in the Southeast

Ag Export Percentages: A Focus on Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat

Population Change in Southern United States

Examining Farm Bill Base Acre Proposals

Building Equity

Humanely Processed Chicken May Bring a Premium Price

Corn Yields and 2024 Projected Linear Trendline Yields in Southern States

HPAI in Dairy Cattle:  Is Pasteurization Dairy’s Only Reliable Protection? 

U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Supply

Understand the Implications of a Price Slide When Buying and Selling Cattle

Fewer Cattle on Feed, Higher Prices

Battlelines Are Being Drawn: Comparing Current Farm Policy Proposals

If You are Following the Conversation about Reference Prices… Here are a Few Facts 

Management and Marketing Implications of Deforestation-Free Soybeans in the Southern Region

Steer Dressed Weight: Recent Counter-Seasonal Behavior and its Long-Term Growth Trend

Analyzing World and U.S. Sugar Price Dynamics

Why Don’t We Start More Cooperatives?

Unpacking the Success of U.S. Beef in Japan

Cover-crop Acres up in Texas, Stagnant Across Rest of the South

Diamond Rings for Old Things

May WASDE Projects Higher Supplies and Lower Prices Again in 2024 

Southern Apples: The Long History of Production and the New Era of Marketing

Paved with Good Intentions: Unintended Impacts of Farm Bill Payment Limitations

New Poultry Contracting Regulation’s Potential Effects on Broiler Growers

Mixed Impacts of H5N1 in Dairy Cows on Dairy and Beef Cattle Markets

Public Information and the Variability of U.S. Cotton Production Forecasts

A Thirst for Change: The Rise of Reclaimed Water Regulations in the U.S.

Trade’s Importance to Southern Agriculture

The Importance of Rented Cropland to Mid-South Agriculture

Butterfat Continues to be a Major Driver of Milk Value

Cash Grain Contracts and When to Use Them

US Supreme Court Finds Texas Landowners Can Pursue Takings Claim

Texas Farmers Sue USDA for Alleged Discrimination

Will Interest Rates Decrease in 2024?

Milk Cows in the Southeast 

An Early Look at 2024 Production Expectations for U.S. Wheat and Sorghum

Chasing the Benefits of Agrivoltaics

Navigating U.S. Sugar Imports From 70 Countries

The Costs and Benefits of Mechanization: A Look at the Dairy Sector

Data Delivers Market Transparency, For Now

December 2024 Corn Option Premium Movement from October 2023 to April 2024 

A View of Commercial Banks in the Southern Region

Leveling the Playing Field for U.S. Agricultural Producers

2024 Prospective Plantings for Southern Ag Today States

Prospective Plantings, Feed Prices and Implications for Feeder Cattle Markets

Corn and Cotton Prevented Planting Decisions 

What is the Principal Agent problem, and should I be concerned about it in my local cooperative?

Global Market Prospects for U.S. Long-grain Rice for the Upcoming Marketing Year

Tax Considerations of Income and Expenses from Nontimber Forest Products

The Now and Later of Feedlot Inventories

The 2024 Sugar Market Domestic Supply and Outlook

Part 2: Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in US Specialty Crop Economics: Navigating Market Dynamics, Labor Challenges, and Global Realities

Higher Reference Prices Are Critical… But So Is Increasing Payment Limits

Census Reveals Tobacco Farms Disappearing from Southern Agriculture

Incentives Help Solar Battle Electricity Cost Increases on Commercial Poultry Farms

Peanut Yield Trends

Foreign Ownership Law Violates the U.S. Constitution???

What’s the Lay of the Land in U.S. Organics Trade?

Planting Date: The Need for Speed

Cow and Cow-Beef Prices Booming

Prospects for Sorghum Premiums in the Upcoming Season: A Forecast Analysis

EPA Made 2023 Commitment To CAFO Permitting Reform But No Action Evident to Date 

ARC and PLC Deadline TOMORROW!

Tax Reporting for Crop Insurance

Record Feeder Cattle Prices

A Quick Look at the 2024 Rice Market

The Corporate Transparency Act and Your (Potential) Duty to Register Your Business

U.S. Fresh Produce Availability

Reforming the H-2A Guest Farmworker Visa Program: Sectoral Coverage Expansion and Workers’ Path to Permanent Residency

2022 Census of Agriculture: Review of Southern Hay Prices

U.S. Cotton Export and Global Market Share Declined in 2023

What is a New Generation Cooperative?

Demand for Raising Reference Prices Not Hidden Very Well

Using the Share Rent Equivalent Model to Determine Farmland Value

Heifers on Feed and Feedlot Demographics

USDA Outlook Forum and Planted Acres

Confronting Legal Deserts in Rural America

Panama Canal Traffic Delays Threaten Southern Ag Global Supply Chains

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Component Price

Ag Census Reveals Fewer Beef Cow Farms

Soybean Option Strategies

Part 1: Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in US Specialty Crop Economics: Navigating Market Dynamics, Labor Challenges, and Global Realities

Farm Bill Fault Lines: Why is the Farm Bill Debate Stuck in Neutral?

What is the TN Visa Program?

Where are the Girls?

The Coordinated Decision of PLC and Federal Crop Insurance in Managing Price Risk in Rice

United States Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Texas v. New Mexico Water Dispute

Creeping Imports and Hidden Costs to U.S. Fresh Produce Growers

Farming to Breakeven in 2024

Thoughts on the Cattle Inventory Report

Cotton Acreage and Relative Prices

WOTUS Update

Proposed Safety Net Choice Could Add Risk to Farmers

Foreign Investment in U.S. Agricultural Land: Leasing vs. Owning

Higher Cattle and Beef Prices

A Way-Too-Early Soybean-to-Corn Price Ratio Analysis: Price Implications and Planting Decisions

USDA Finalizes Rule on Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards

Southern U.S. Agriculture Faces Headwinds in Asia Amid Red Sea Shipping Disruptions

Cotton Crop Insurance: Unveiling Regional Differences in Projected and Harvest Prices

Lower Hay Stocks in Some of the Southeast for Winter

2024 Winter Wheat Production Prospects

Seven Elements Your Farmers’ Market Website Should Include to Attract Consumers

Making the ARC/PLC Election for 2024

Cotton Crop Insurance: Regional Differences in Sales Closing Dates and Cancellation Dates

More COF Still?

Real and Nominal Corn Futures Prices 

Online Training for Cooperative Boards

U.S. Agricultural Trade: Value vs. Volume

Financial Ratios to Consider for Measuring Financial Resiliency of Your Farm

More Pigs

Peanut Cost of Production, the Farm Bill, and Need for Risk Management

Citrus Greening, Hurricanes, and the Decline of the Florida Citrus Industry

Shouldn’t the Farm Safety Net Target Those Feeding the Country?

What Should I Do With My Heifers?

Weight Gain

Federal Crop Insurance and the False Claims Act

American Whiskey Gets Extended Tariff Reprieve in the EU…Just Weeks Before the Deadline

Look Out Overhead

EQIP Overview for Livestock Producers

The New Small Business Reporting Rule and Your Farm

Bracing for Change: Stacking Risk Management Tools for 2024

Exploring Diverse Crop Insurance Options for Cotton Producers

Large Cow Culling Continues

Using Historical Price Movements to Inform Marketing Decisions

Finding a Lawyer

What’s all the Fuss about the Inflation Reduction Act?

Two Key Productivity Measures with Profit Implications for Cow-calf Operations

Holiday Baking Gets a Boost

Examining Sugarcane and Sugarbeet Production Costs 

More than Ever, Rural Communities Need Strong Third Places to Build Social Capital

Forecasting Discretionary Spending by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Will Irrigated Soybean Area Continue to Expand in Eastern Arkansas?

Feeder Bulls Discounted to Feeder Steers?

Why are Peanuts Bucking the Declining Crop Price Trend?

Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers Affect U.S. Agricultural Exports to the ASEAN Market

Evaluation of the Recent Government Accountability Office Sugar Program Report 

Comparing Liquified Propane to Natural Gas for Heating Fuel Cost Management in Poultry

Lamb And Mutton Production Shrinks This Year 

Bridging the Price Risk Gap

Leading Change in Your Cooperative

Historic Research Yields Modern Solutions

It’s Turkey Time!

Corn Price Prospects When We Start the Year with a 2-Billion-Bushel Carryover

What Is Driving Native Plant Sales?

Implications of Reverting to Dairy Policy in the 1948 Farm Bill

The Economics of Artificial Insemination

A Charlie Brown Christmas for Cattle Prices

U.S. Cotton Cost Trends and Implications

Do We Have Enough DEA-Registered Labs to Implement Hemp Program?

What Would Our Clean-Slate Safety Net Look Like?

Estimate and Manage Your Largest Cost as a Cow-calf Operator

Understanding Basis When Managing Feeder Cattle Price Risk

Corn and Soybean Yield Trends 

US Supreme Court Will Not Hear North Carolina “Ag Gag” Appeal

Angola: U.S. Chicken Exports Facing Increasing Competition in this Leading Market 

South-Wide Timber Market: Pine Sawtimber Prices Stabilize as Pulpwood Prices Continued to Decline 

Producers Embrace USDA’s Livestock Risk Protection Program

How Market Dynamics Separate World and U.S. Rice Export Prices

Wetlands Protection under Swampbuster 

Do Crop Insurance Payments Help with Economic Impacts of Drought Beyond the Farm Gate? 

Crop Insurance as a Safety Net for Operating Loan Obligations

More Heifers Continue to Head to Feedlots

River Levels and Off-Farm Storage Disbursement

Improving Ag Structures’ Resilience to Wind Damage

Can Chinese Demand for U.S. Hides and Skins Recover?

Sectoral and Regional Concentration of H-2A Patronage

Balance of Trade Has Shifted as Beef Production has Decreased

Russian Wheat Production and World Wheat Market Fundamentals

Demystifying Patronage Refunds

Reference Prices: Setting the Record Straight

Capital Recovery Costs: An Important Component of Enterprise Budgeting

Cow Culling Climbing Seasonally

Who’s Holding Global Soybean Stocks? 

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part III

U.S. Agricultural Imports are Expected to Surpass Exports Post Covid and Beyond

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Class Price

New Commercial Poultry Breeder Housing Under Economic Stress

Corn and Soybean Harvest Futures Contract Price Frequency 

What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for Farmers?

EWG Takes the Spotlight in the Silly Season

Which is more profitable for producers, Single-Species or Multi-Species Cover Crops?

All Markets are Local

Low River Levels, Barge Freight, and Widening Basis

Ten More States Pass Foreign Land Ownership Laws This Year

U.S. Agricultural Export Values are Expected to Decrease After a 7-Year Expansion Run

Can I Afford to Buy a Farm? 

Proposition 12 Preliminary Price Impacts

USDA Refining of Forecasted U.S. Cotton Production

EPA Publishes Updated Waters of the United States Rule

Crop Insurance Rating: the Curious Case of STAX

2023 Land Values and Buyer Motivations

Are You Buying Hay For The Winter?

Supporting Sorghum Prices in the 2023/24 Season: Exports and Basis

HPAI in 2023: “Induced” Losses Leave a Gap in the Federal Indemnity Scheme 

The Rise and Fall of U.S. Chicken Feet in China: A Story of Bird Flu and Trade Bans

2023 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

A Check in on Boxed Beef Cutout Value

The Importance of Wheat Production in the South 

Using Deliberative Dialogue to Address Florida Community Challenges

Pecan Risk Management

Files for the Farm Business

Feed Inputs for Ranchers: A Brief Look at Corn and Hay

Comparing the Harvest Price and Projected Price in Revenue Protection Crop Insurance for Rice and Corn

Farmers Markets and the South

Agricultural Commodity Markets Navigate Uncharted Waters Amidst Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Federal Funds Rate Impact on Agricultural Lending

To Breed or To Feed?

How is the Cotton Crop Looking in 2023?

Where Have All the Black Farmers Gone? 

Final Planting Dates and the Impact on Prevented Planting Acres

Effect of Interest Rates on Beef Cow Bid Price

Are We Robbing Peter’s Heifers?

The Fast Two Minutes in Crop Markets

Farmers Win Regulatory Takings Case for Managed-Flooding Impacts

A Quick Look at Brazil’s Efforts to Outpace the U.S. as Leading Corn Exporter

The Rise of Irrigated Soybeans in Arkansas  

Counter Seasonal Runs in Cattle Prices

Peanut Farmers Find Marketing Opportunities through Agricultural Cooperatives

Is Your Operation AGRItourism or AgriTOURISM?

Have Payment Yields Kept Up with Actual Crop Yields?

The Cost of Money and Commercial Poultry Growing

Is It Too Early to Talk Turkey?

Brazilian Reais, Chinese Yuan Renminbi, and United States Dollar:  Exchange Rates Could Provide Support or Hindrance to U.S. Soybean Exports

How to Protect Farmworkers During Heat Waves?

Shaking the Global Rice Market: India Bans Exports of White Non-Basmati Rice

Bermuda Grass Hay Nutrient Removal

No Signs of Beef Cattle Herd Expansion…Yet

Implications of the Black Sea Grain Deal Cancellation

Sustaining Farms by Sustaining Farmers and Farm Families

Time Running Out on a New Farm Bill This Year

Forage Costs of Production and Breakeven Curves

Dairy Margin Coverage Provides Some Help in Challenging Milk Market

Soybean Indemnity Payments for Wildlife Damage

Why is Our Cooperative Struggling?

U.S. Agricultural Exports to China Soar and Market Share Returns to Pre-Trade War Levels

Mid-Year Review and Planning

More Dairy Cow Culling

The U.S. Corn Market: a Look Ahead and Lessons from the Past

Is the Transition from Conventional to Organic Kale Production Profitable?

How will Proposition 12 Ruling Impact the Farm Bill?

Southern Timber Prices Weakened 

Hot Dog!  It’s Fourth of July!

USDA Acreage Report Results: Price and Crop Insurance Impacts

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Important Clean Water Act Ruling

U.S. Whiskey Exports Remain Strong as Ag Exports are Expected to Decline Overall

New Rules for the Calculation of H-2A Workers’ Wages

Surprisingly Big Placements in the June Cattle on Feed Report

Interest Rates and Grain Storage

What to Know About Employing Minors in the Summer and Beyond

Southern Economic Impacts of Premium-to-Liability Ratio Limits in U.S. Crop Insurance

The South as the Nation’s Primary Regional Employer of H-2A Labor

Uptick in Livestock Risk Protection for Fed Cattle

The Relationship Between Wheat Stocks Held by Exporting Countries, Global Imports, and the U.S. Marketing Year Average Price  

Moon v. Schultz – Damages in Tree Fall Cases

U.S. has Experienced Consistent Ag Export Growth to Mexico Under NAFTA and USMCA 

When is the “Best” Time to Buy Farm Diesel?

Uptick in Livestock Risk Protection for Feeder Cattle

Our Most Read Articles for 2022-2023

Difficulty in Forecasting 2023 U.S. Cotton Production

Feasibility Analysis—A Key Step to Success 

Adjusting Reference Prices Based on Changes in Cost of Production

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

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The Impact of Interest Rates and Basis on Net Cash Price for Corn

Interested in Forming a Cooperative? Take the Cooperative Challenge!

Egg-spensive Business: Exploring the Spike in Egg Prices and the Impact of Imports

Up-Side-Down Yields? 

Grass Fed Beef Prices

Sorghum Exports and Production Expectations for the 2023/24 Season

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part II

The Silly Season Has Begun…Must Be Farm Bill Time

Prevented Planting and APH Reductions After Planting a Second Crop

Low Hog Prices and Red Ink

Flooding in the Upper Mississippi River is Associated with Relatively Weak Soybean Basis in the Midsouth 

United States Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 12

U.S. Beef Exports Down in 2023 (so far) – U.S. Beef is Losing Ground in China

Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land

Brisket Prices on the Rise

Higher Supplies and Lower Prices Projected for U.S. Crops in 2023

Beef Custom Harvest Agreement Considerations  

Analyzing the Relative Riskiness of Rice Yields

Economic Uncertainty and Ways to Prepare for the Worst

National Feeder and Stocker Cattle Receipts Higher to Start 2023

The Importance of Corn Production in the South to the U.S. Corn Supply

Riding off into the Sunset: State Policies and Contract Provisions That Impact Decommissioning a Solar Facility

Down the River: How the 2022 Mississippi River Drought Damaged Southern U.S. Agricultural Trade

Mobile Apps in Farm Management

April Cattle on Feed – What to Make of March Placements

Urea, Natural Gas, and Corn Price Correlations

Responding to Climate Change in Rural Communities

Revisiting Planted Versus Base Acres

The Five Types of Risk in Agriculture

Marketing Locally Raised Meats? Lessons Learned in South Carolina        

Peanut Acreage Projected to Increase in 2023

4 Tips for Better Board Meetings

Global Market Prospects for U.S. Long-Grain Rice for the Upcoming Marketing Year

Benchmarking

Another Week, Another Record

Competing Influences and Expectations for World Cotton Demand

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part I

Regional Equity in Crop Insurance

Managing Price Risk for Cow-Calf Producers

Cattle Prices in Record Territory

Rethinking Fertilizer Prices

Right to Farm Bills in the South

Expanded U.S.-Mexico Trade in Avocados Benefits U.S. Consumers

Days Suitable for Planting Rice in Arkansas

‘Tis The Season for Lamb

Key Takeaways and Reliability of the 2023 Prospective Plantings Report

What is an “Ag-Gag” Law?

Congressional Representation from the South

Wheat Straw Nutrient Removal

Heating Fuel and Electricity Concerns for Commercial Poultry

Sensitivity of USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum Projections to Changes in Soybean Crush Demand

A Cheese by Any Other Name

What Might Climate Change Mean for U.S. Grain Exports?

Loan Amortization

Beef Cow Culling Sharply Lower

Sensitivity of USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum Projections to Changes in Corn Exports

Value-Added Ag and Food Products

What’s in the Farm Bill for Livestock Producers?

Projecting Your Cost of Production and Combating Higher Costs in 2023

Dairy Margin Coverage Program Begins 2023 with Payment

The Soybean to Corn Price Ratio as a Guide to Farmers’ Planting Decisions

The Economic Value of Agricultural Cooperatives

U.S. Wood Pellet Exports Continue to Reach Record Levels

Do I need to pay the Net Income Tax on my timber income?

Beef Price Spread Relationship with Processing Capacity Utilization

February USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum Projections Compared to USDA Final Estimates

Economies of Scale and Scope in Fresh Produce Technologies: Managing Markets Using the AgTools Database

ARC/PLC Sign-up Deadline Just Days Away

Social and Business Implications of the 2023 Increase in Adverse Effect Wage Rates

Peak Meat

One Last Thought on Revenue Insurance for Rice in 2023

State Foreign Ownership Proposals

Fresh Produce Imports from Mexico Continue to Rise

Outcomes of Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Fillings

An Interesting Curiosity, for Now

2023 Peanut Market Outlook

Oklahoma Prevails in Lawsuit Against Poultry Growers for Pollution of Illinois River

CBO’s February 2023 Baseline Update

Financial State of Chapter 12 Bankruptcy Filings

Calf Prices Jump

Possible Extreme Outcomes for 2023 Cotton

The Need for Equity Preparing for the 2023 Farm Bill

U.S. Agricultural Exports Set Another Record in 2022, but Higher Prices Appear to be the Cause

Chapter 12 Bankruptcy as an Option to Relieve Financial Distress

Observations on the Cattle Report in the South

Do Corn and Soybean Harvest Futures Rise or Fall During the February Projected Crop Insurance Price Determination Period?

Curiosity to Cash: Successful Web Marketing

What Do Producers Want/Need in a Safety Net?

Bankruptcy as an Option to Relieve Financial Distress

Record Egg Prices Driven by Supply Disruptions

Traditional Stock-to-Use Ratios are of Little Value in Determining Peanut Prices

Cooperative Farm Stores and Challenge of Member Loyalty

Brazil Challenging U.S. Corn Export Top Spot

Income Averaging: An underutilized tax management strategy available to farms and commercial fisherman

The Interesting Part of the Cattle on Feed Report

Trading Ranges and Volatility for November Soybean and December Corn Futures Prices

Adverse Effect Wage Rates of H-2A Workers Increase in 2023

Support for Rice Producers in the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus

Cotton Crop Insurance to Protect Against Revenue Losses: Select Harvest Price Exclusion or Not?

Fewer Cattle on Feed Expected

The Demand Side of the Supply and Demand Balance Sheet

The Navigability of WOTUS

China’s imports of U.S. Beef continue to increase. But how does the U.S. compare to other competing countries?

Managing for Foundation Traits in Beef Cows

A Very (Very) Early Look at Post-Drought Herd Rebuilding

The Peanut-Cotton Price Relationship

Hydroponic Agriculture and Insurance Coverage

What If We Don’t Get a Farm Bill in 2023?

Summary of High Avian Influenza in 2022

Smaller Weekly Beef Cow Culling, Finally

Navigating the “Winter” in Cotton Farming in 2023

The Supreme Court and Agriculture

U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit Projected for 2023

What’s a 1099? Do I Need to File?

Fewer COF and Hogs, But More Milk

Quantifying U.S. Corn Exports to Mexico

Strong 2022 Holiday Spending Reflects Experiences and Expectations

Where are Commodity Prices Headed in the Next CBO Baseline?

Will Hemp Production Fare Any Better in 2023?

Retail Meat Prices Finally Decline

What to Expect from Brazil’s Soybean Crop?

How to Create a Marketing Plan in the Digital Era

The U.S. and Brazil in International Beef Markets

Prevented Planting

Feeding Efficiency Gains Over Time

Corn Exports: Quality, Value, and Prices

Urban Development and Farm Labor Scarcity: Are Workers Leaving Agriculture for Construction?

What is the Expected Impact of High Commodity Prices on Effective Reference Prices for Covered Commodities

Enterprise Budgeting

Fed Cattle Prices Jump Higher

Looking Ahead to the 2023 Cotton Market

The Potential Implications of Large-Scale Solar Development: A Case Study on Maryland’s Agricultural Industry

China Emerges as a Leading Destination for U.S. Beef Exports

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

High Hog and Pork Prices This Year

Risk Management Considerations for the 2023 Growing Season

Conservation Easements: Subdivision Considerations in Farm Succession Planning

Fall vs. Spring Application of Broiler Litter

Exceptional Cow and Heifer Slaughter

What Does Trendline Yield Tell Us About How Corn Futures Prices React During and After the Production Year?

Potential Class Action Filed Claiming Poultry Growers are Employees

Barge Traffic Restrictions on the Mississippi River and Bulk Agricultural Exports

Using Seasonal Precipitation Outlook Maps in PRF Planning

Retail Beef prices Lower, Pork Higher

Considerations for Developing a Pre-Harvest Marketing Plan

Fresh Tomato Supply Chain: Challenges in Production & Marketing

Correspondence of Rice Planted Acres to Safety Net Prices

What Should We Expect for Farm Loan Interest Rates in 2022 & 2023?

Beef Cow Slaughter Ramps Up

Who’s Buying U.S. Peanuts?

A Legacy of Cooperative Leadership

U.S. Pecan Trade

Year-End Tax Preparations & Management

Small Grain Pastures

Low Water Levels in the Mississippi River Result in Abnormally Weak Soybean Basis

Insurance Plans for Specialty Crops

An Early Look at the Farm Safety Net for Cotton in 2023

Loan Packaging Terms for Beginning Minority Farmers Under More Objective Lender’s Loan Evaluation Models

It’s Turkey Time!

Fences Aren’t Just for Cattle

Immediate Relief for Financially Distressed FSA Farm Loan Borrowers

The Drought, Exports, and Cotton Prices

Adding Value to Feeder Calves

Growth in Forward Delivery Beef Sales

Wheat Acres in the South

Changes May Come to Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers with the Inflation Reduction Act

Does the May 2022 CBO Baseline Provide Any Information About the Ability to Increase Commodity Reference Prices?

Short-Term Contingency Plans for Southern Producers

Negotiated Fed Cattle Sales Decline in 2022

U.S. Sorghum-Corn Premium Prices Fell Sharply During this Quarter

USDA’s Text Message Bioengineered Food Disclosure Regulation Determined Unlawful

ERS Report Shows that U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Benefit Developing Countries

Carbon Program Opportunities for Woodland Owners in the Southeast

Value of Bred Heifers in 2023

Refinement of U.S. Cotton Production Forecasts

The Importance of Veterinarians in Rural Communities

The Securities and Exchange Commission Proposed Climate-Related Disclosures and Unintended Consequences?

Peer Advisory Groups

Drought Continues to Impact Cattle Flow

Marketing Strategies if Producers Do Not Have Access to On-Farm Storage

Should We Form a Cooperative?

Why is Trade Freedom Important?

Cover Crop Seed Availability Hinders Cover Crop Adoption by Agricultural Producers

Livestock Feed Price Implications for Fall

U.S. Feed and Residual Use: Consumption Trends in the Biofuel Era

Broiler Grower Settlement Forms Arriving to Growers: Background on the Class Action

Drought Related Livestock Sales and Tax Reporting Options

Economic vs. Tax Depreciation: Understanding Which to Use for Determining Farm Profitability

Wholesale Beef Prices

On-Farm Grain Storage in Southern States

Amendments to the Federal Crop Insurance Basic Provisions

USDA: U.S. Agricultural Exports are Projected to Decrease $2.5 Billion in Fiscal Year 2023

Farmland Leasing for Young and Beginning Operators

Cow Slaughter in the South

High Abandonment Acres for U.S. Cotton Projected Due to Drought

Heirs Property and Agriculture

Agricultural Provisions in the Reduction Act of 2022

Economic Culling Criteria

Livestock Risk Protection Cost is Lower

2022 Peanut Production Projections

Key Estate Planning Documents

Importance of Agricultural Trade for the U.S.

Producers have Significantly Increased the use of LRP

Fuel Price Volatility a Growing Concern for Commercial Poultry Growers

The Option to Augment the Crop Insurance Price Floor

How to Create Attention-Grabbing Content to Grow Your Agribusiness with Social Media

Crop Insurance Loss Ratio Trends Over Time

Cover Crops and Risk

Grazing Stocker Cattle on Warm-Season Annual Forges

Key Farm Management Considerations in Turbulent Times: The 5% Rule

Job Market Behavior During Pandemic Times

How Important is the Phillippines for U.S. Agricultural Trade?

Supply Seasonality of Specialty Crops in the United States

Drought is Sending More Cows to Market

July Volatility in November Soybean Futures Prices

Immigration Projects under Discussion: Why Do They Matter for the Agricultural Labor Supply?

Debt Relief for Certain Farmers & Ranchers

Profitability of Cover Crops

PRF Adoption Rate to Mitigate Drought Impact

More Volatile Cotton Prices

Sysco Becomes Latest Beef Packer Antitrust Claimant

Difference Between Inflation and Changes in Commodity Prices

Estimating the Cost of a Grain Bagging System

Cattle and COF Reports

U.S. Sugar Policy and Prices

Fixtures and Farm Leases

An Initial Look at Forced Base Update on the South

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

Between a Rock and a Dry Place: Culling Decisions

The USDA June Acreage and Grain Stocks Report

U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Proposition 12 Case

International Market Concentration in the Southern Meat Trading Market

Careful on the Curves

Falling Corn Prices and Cost of Gain

What is Behind the Recent Cotton Futures Market Plunge?

Success, Rebound, or Resignation. The Divergent Financial Dynamics of Ag Co-ops

The Trillion Dollar “Farm” Bill

Influential Expectations

Net Farm Income Varies Widely in Commercial Broiler Production

Wheat Production of Major Exporters in the Southern Hemisphere

On a Need-to-Know Basis: TXFED Online Training for Market Farmers

Understanding the New Safeguard Policy for U.S. Beef in Japan

Can Solar Panels Improve Contract Farm Profitability?

Hedging Opportunities for Managing Price Risk for Cattle

Some Quirky Aspects of Cotton Marketing

Local Food Sales & Practices

Broadband Adoption and Impacts on COVID-19 Unemployment Recovery in the South

To Irrigate or Not to Irrigate?

Farm Level Milk Prices Set Record in Back-to-Back Months

Shelled Peanut Product Disappearance Increasing

How Right-to-Farm Laws Operate to Protect Ag Practices Used by Producers

The Economic Costs of Canadian Dairy Quota Restrictions Under USMCA

Inflation Control, Farm Interest Rates, and Farmland Values

Pork and Beef International Trade

World Per Capita Grain Consumption and Global Economic Growth

Fence Laws for Rural Landowners

While Still Largely Profitable…Crop Producers Putting Historic Amount of Capital at Risk in 2022

Increased Participation in Weather-Related Crop Insurance Program

Large Cow Culling, Calf Prices Diving

Soybean Acerage Higher in Southern States with Increased Price Outlook

Verbal Farm Tenancy Protection in the South

The Imminent Menace of Sanitary Barriers in International Trade

Inflation and Interest Rates

Pricing Hay for Profit

Managing the Price Risk Gap between December Corn Futures and Projected Crop Insurance Prices

Increased Demand and Persistent Resource Challenges for the Nursery Industy

USDA Launches New Disaster Program for 2020 and 2021 Crop Years

Inflation and Farm Prices

Large Placements Bring Tighter Feeder Supplies

Forward Pricing with Options on ICE Cotton Futures

Mental Health & Agriculture: There is Always Hope

U.S. Long-Grain Rice Faces Growing Challenges Overseas

Potential Cost Savings of Multiple Inlet Rice Irrigation

Are we ready for one more Niña season?

Outlook for Feed grain Fundamentals in the 2022/2023 Marketing Year

Impact of Increasing Fertilizer Prices and Interest Rates on Farm Supply Cooperatives

Crop Insurance the Key to Avoiding Another Farm Economy Downturn

Prospects for Retained Ownership in a High Input Cost Environment

2022 Range and Pasture Conditions

Milestone Indicators of U.S. Cotton Supply and Demand

In Historic Town Centers Beauty is More than Skin Deep

Removing Fertilizer Tariffs is Not a (Phosphate) Rock and a Hard Place

The Value of Proper Soil pH

Should Feeder Calves be PI Tested?

U.S. Total Rice Acerage Projected at 35 Year Low

Reliance on H-2A Workers Continues to Spike as Specialty Crop Producers Face Labor Shortages

Fed Cattle Pricing: Will Well-Intentioned Proposals Actually Reduce Cattle Prices?

Extension Budgets and Budget Tools

Index of Weekly Google Searches for ” How to Cook Lamb”, 2004-2022

Projected Decrease in Peanut Acreage Could Have Greater Impacts on Overall Production

Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas Drone Law as Unconstitutional

Shipping Container Disruptions Cause Considerable Export Losses for Southern Ports

Examining the Used Combine Market

Beef Cow Slaughter Continues to Run High

World Wheat Supplies in Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Overtime for the Agricultural Industry

The U.S. Ethanol Industry and Unintended Consequences

On-Farm Cost of Contracting High Path Avian Influenza in a Commercial Broiler Flock

Dairy Product Prices

Less Corn, More Soybeans, Cotton, and Wheat Projected to be Planted in 2022

What Are Right-to-Farm Laws?

The Future for Cotton

Too Many Dollars Chasing Too Few Goods

March Cattle on Feed Sets a Record

Indirect Effects of the Eastern European Conflict on Cotton

The 10th Circuit Dismisses “Product of the U.S.A.” Mislabeling Claims

President’s Budget: Does it Matter?

The Russia/Ukraine Conflict and Farm Input Markets

The Cost of Avian Flu to the Southeastern Broiler Industry

Using Put Options for Risk Management

Market Trends for U.S. Blueberry: Implications for Southeastern U.S. Producers

U.S. Agricultural Trade with Plenty of Uncertainties but Expected to Hit Record Numbers in 2022

Crop Returns Comparison

Another Big Placement Month

Peanut Production Up in 2021 Despite Lower Acreage

Digital Divide in Rural Communities

A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: The Role of USDA Programs in Addressing Climate Change

Flex Leases for Crop Producers

Cull Cow Prices Skyrocket

Ukraine-Russia Implications in Grain and Oilseed Markets

Locally Raised Meats: Cooperatives Needed