The State of the Union (SOTU) annual address is tonight, and President Barack Obama will be presenting his third SOTU to members of Congress. In anticipation of this event, we thought we'd offer some SOTU history, courtesy of former speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore, Robert Lehrman via Politico: Former President Richard Nixon in 1970 reportedly once said, "Agriculture in a State of the Union isn't worth a damn."Others disagree. Commodity and producer groups hope the president will talk about the farm bill. The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), in fact, sent President Obama a letter reminding him that his upcoming SOTU is a "unique opportunity" to comment upon the "value of a strong domestic renewable fuel industry." The RFA added t...
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...
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...
Key Takeaways: Brazil’s growing role in global agriculture is accompanied by a major vulnerability: the country imports approximately 88 percent of its fertilizer needs. High natural gas costs and development challenges have limited domestic nitrogen and potash production despite Brazil&...
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