Pork Business
Access to foreign markets hinges on compliance with new standards
Former judges share the passion and skills they developed while judging hogs as a 4-H or FFA member.
China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the U.S., in a move that would reconfigure the relationship between the world’s two largest economies.
But whether it’s work gloves, warm socks or tools—when you work 24/7 these farmer gifts can make our day all year long. So here’s seven gifts any hog farmer would like to see under the tree:
USDA’s World Agricultura Supply and Demand Estimates for December are little changed from November’s numbers but soybean ending stocks are projected at a record 955 million bushels.
A Southeast Asian nation that was a bit player in the biofuel market is suddenly buying and selling unprecedented supplies. The U.S.-China trade war may have something to do with it.
China’s 400 million pigs may not have to go on such a stringent diet after all.
Two more vessels loaded with U.S. soybeans have departed for China, signaling that buyers may be getting more desperate for supplies amid the prolonged trade war between the nations.
High-level NAFTA negotiations are set to resume in Washington, where Republicans are warning time is running out for Canada to join the U.S. and Mexico in a trilateral deal.
Major poultry and meat companies are starting to resume operations in the Carolinas as the torrential rains and flooding unleashed by Hurricane Florence start to subside.
The Trump administration will announce as early as Monday that it’s imposing a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods, which Beijing has already said it will retaliate against.
Trade associations representing farmers, retailers and manufacturers are joining forces in a new multi-million-dollar campaign to oppose President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
One of the American Airlines pilots on a plane hijacked on 9-11 was a farmer from Massachusetts. AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths shared the story of John Ogonowski and his family on the 10th anniversary of the attack.
Mandatory evacuations were imposed for parts of three East Coast states Tuesday as millions of Americans prepared for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades.
President Donald Trump said he’s ready to impose tariffs on an additional $267 billion in Chinese goods on short notice, on top of a proposed $200 billion that his administration is putting the final touches on.
President Donald Trump said he plans to pursue a trade deal with Mexico and possibly Canada even as talks with the U.S.’s northern neighbor stalled, leaving the future of a revised Nafta in doubt.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent net farm income projection from February pegs income to fall to a 12-year low at $59.5 billion.
Explore options such as wildlife habitat, wetlands, solar or wind production, mineral development and conservation easement to diversify land use and generate additional revenue.
President Donald Trump said he would terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement and sign a new trade accord with Mexico, potentially leaving Canada out of the bloc.
President Donald Trump has signed off on a bilateral agreement with Mexico to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, and an announcement is expected later on Monday.
The agriculture markets are getting a lift as U.S. trade relations improve with Mexico, one of the largest foreign buyers of American meat and grain.
Analysts break down the potential market impact of the tour results in this week’s Markets Now.
USDA says the U.S. has record or near record crops in the nation’s corn and soybean fields. What will the 2018 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop tour find next week?
President Donald Trump said negotiations with Mexico on a new Nafta are “coming along nicely,” while telling Canada it will have to wait to re-enter the talks to modernize the three-nation trade pact.
Typically the trade sees a 4-bu. corn yield variance in the August WASDE report, reports market analysts from Allendale. The soybean market will be heavily influenced by trade factors.
Pres Trump and European Union leaders announced Wednesday they have agreed to work toward “zero tariffs” and “zero subsidies” on non-automobile goods, including buying more US soybeans.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said a plan by the Trump administration to pay $12 billion in relief to U.S. farmers is a stop-gap proposal that “nobody is thrilled about.”
It’s been hot and steamy across the Corn Belt the past couple weeks, but as you drive down the I-55 corridor, uniform fields show promise for a record corn crop in 2018.
Soybean prices in the U.S. and Brazil, the nations that account for roughly 80 percent of global exports, have taken drastically different paths thanks to Donald Trump’s trade war.