The Senate Agriculture Committee yesterday completed the 2012 Farm Bill markup in one session. The Commodity Title is based on the same outline we reported on 20 April. It eliminates direct payments, countercyclical payments and the ACRE program, and replaces it with a new Ag Risk Coverage (ARC) program. ARC:
Is based on county averages; Covers wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, long grain rice, medium grain rice, pulse crops, soybeans, other oilseeds and peanuts; Is based on total acres that are planted or prevented from planting, not to exceed total acres planted in the 2009-12 crop years adjusted for land coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP); Requires a one-time election for enrollment; and, Makes payment...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
