USDA put a freeze on Coronavirus Food Aid Program (CFAP) payments as the new administration reviews all rules put in place by a lame duck Trump Administration. Could that review bring changes to the CFAP payments?
While China’s hunger for corn made headlines, Suderman says the steady demand for soybeans is creating a serious supply concern. That’s why there are now fears the U.S. could run out of soybeans.
USDA’s annual Cattle Inventory report released Friday estimated the total U.S. herd on Jan. 1, 2021, at 93.6 million head, about 200,000 head fewer than in 2020.
“This is indicative of farmer interest and individual investor interest. We are starting to see prices we last saw between 2012 and 2014,” Dickhut says.
While Tyson's lawyers were filing a lawsuit on Monday against one of the packer’s largest cattle suppliers, the ink was still drying on the sale of one of that supplier’s feedlots to one of Tyson’s competitors.
Any other year, you might be finalizing plans to head to Louisville in a couple weeks. While NFMS has been postponed until 2022, you can catch up on the latest machinery and trends at Farm Journal Field Days on Feb. 9.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the country anything, it’s that there is a tremendous amount of synergy between the circumstances of a pandemic involving humans and those involving animals.?
