What You Need to Know Today:
It was a quiet trading day across major agricultural commodities, with most contracts closing within 1 percent of the previous day's settlement. Trading volumes for corn and the soy complex were lighter than earlier in the week, as traders were positioning before and after the June WASDE was released. The major agricultural-related news today was JBS announcing the closure of its Souderton, Pennsylvania beef plant on 14 August. The plant had a slaughter capacity of about 2,000 cattle per day. The closure will affect approximately 1,700 workers. President Trump called Iran “dishonorable” after its state media reported inaccurate descriptions of a potential U.S./Iran agreement. Pakistan, a key mediato...
New World Screwworm Another day, another case of New World Screwworm. USDA has reported nine cases of New World Screwworm (NWS) in the U.S. Of the nine reported cases, eight are located across four counties in Texas—Edwards, Gillespie, La Salle, and Zavala. Of the eight cases in Texas, si...
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the debates surrounding farm policy and crop production, especially the current back-and-forth about regenerative agriculture. Regeneration appears to be the word of the decade, the one that won’t go away. Its ubiquity cannot be ignored; in the same way we...
