USDA Reports
While the U.S. breeding herd continues to contract, record-breaking productivity is keeping total inventory levels steady at 74.3 million head, according to the March 1 USDA Hogs and Pigs Report.
Biosecurity is the best defense to keep foreign animal disease out. USDA wants to see how you put it into practice.
The December 2025 Hogs and Pigs Report offers a few more surprises than normal when comparing pre-report estimates with USDA’s numbers.
With no growth in supply expected and lower feed costs, analysts expect hog prices to remain well supported in 2026.
The department says it will relocate more than half of its Washington, D.C., staff to five hubs around the country, as well as consolidate or eliminate regional offices.
The industry is starting to see profits from a cumulative standpoint similar to levels in August 2022 and producers could be seeing breakeven this August.
The latest USDA Hogs and Pigs Report affirms U.S. pork producers are very savvy, and they’re not going to make investments right now given all the uncertainty that exists, says economist Altin Kalo.
Although there were no earth-shattering surprises in the Dec. 1 USDA Hogs and Pigs Report, economist Lee Schulz says there are several important takeaways for pork producers as the year comes to a close.
If the funding measure fails, USDA has a contingency plan in place for essential workers and services. The plan would retain a small number of administrative employees to oversee activities including disaster response and cybersecurity should funding lapse.
USDA’s final look at crop production for 2023 caught the commodity markets by surprise. The agency increased the final yield estimates for both corn and soybeans, and as a result, prices plummeted on Friday.
USDA released a few big surprises in the June acreage report, including a spike in corn acres and a large reduction in soybean acres. The agency also forecasts grain stocks below trade expectations.
USDA’s first official net farm income forecast shows an expected 16% drop in 2023 net farm income, largely due to a decline in commodity prices and government payments with higher expenses and costs at the farm level.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, offers further analysis on market trends and movements and what they mean to the farm industry.
Declining U.S. corn acres, a slow start to corn planting and stable domestic consumption are all creating a bullish story for corn.
This month’s 2019/20 U.S. corn outlook is for larger production and beginning stocks, greater feed and residual use, lower food, seed, and industrial (FSI) use, and increased ending stocks.
Declining U.S. corn acres, a slow start to corn planting and stable domestic consumption are all creating a bullish story for corn.
Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions, says it was an impressive that grains, especially the soybean complex, shook off the election results, possible tariff hikes and a sharply higher dollar.