Yet another flawed study criticizes large scale farms and wrongly equates them with greater environmental damage. Kimberly Nicholas of the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) says that most EU agricultural subsidies go to intensively farmed areas that cause the most environmental damage and already have higher incomes. Meanwhile, smaller farms and poorer regions that are “climate-friendly” are insufficiently funded. Cross-referencing the Yale University Environmental Performance Index with farm size reveals the opposite. Not only do larger farms more efficiently utilize resources, they have the capital to invest in environmental mitigation and have greater reputational risk that discourages bad behavior.&n...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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