Articles Tagged with ''soybeans''

EPA is proposing the latest revisions to its crop grouping regulations for the purposes of setting pesticide tolerances, a move that the agency says will benefit producers of minor crops and pesticide companies through lower registration costs.

A flurry of Department of Agriculture reports Wednesday showed bin-busting production of corn, sorghum, soybeans and cotton took place in 2021, largely matching what traders were expecting to see.

The cost of fertilizer exploded in 2021 and farmers across the country are going to be hit even harder in 2022, according to a new study by Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center.

The 2019 version of the Trump administration’s Market Facilitation Program overestimated trade damages and was marked by regional payment disparities among farmers growing the same crops, according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office.

The Department of Agriculture made little change to key figures for corn, soybean, wheat and rice figures on the last “report day” of 2021.

The impact of changing climate conditions on the world’s wheat, corn, soybean and rice production are likely to be seen sooner than previously estimated. And of those crops, only wheat is expected to see increases in yield.

Farmers are being hit from all sides with increased production costs, but two of the expenses responsible for the most volatility and uncertainty are fertilizers and pesticides.

U.S. soybean exports picked up pace significantly in the first week of October, offering evidence that U.S. shipping of the 2021-22 marketing year crop is recovering from delays caused by damages to barges, elevators, ports and other infrastructure on the Mississippi River by Hurricane Ida more than a month ago.

Department of Agriculture officials increased soybean and corn yields which helped push ending stocks projections higher in Tuesday's World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report.