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by Sara VanderPoel
Jan 82 min read
USDA Increases Funding for New Specialty Crop Program (MASC) by $650 Million
FSA is providing an additional $650M in funding for the new Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program and extending the dea...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Jan 62 min read
US Wins Trade Dispute Against Mexico Over GMO Corn Ban
The USMCA panel agreed with the United States on all seven legal claims, finding that Mexico’s measures to ban genetically modified corn...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Dec 18, 20242 min read
New USDA Program Provides Financial Assistance for Marketing Specialty Crops (MASC)
The program can provide up to $125,000 in assistance to qualified specialty crop producers. Depending on program demand, benefits may...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Dec 16, 20241 min read
South Africa Approved Permits to Import U.S. Genetically-engineered Corn After Drop in Domestic Production
South Africa could import 800,000 tonnes of corn in 2023-24 after producing its smallest corn crop in five years at 13.3 million tonnes...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Oct 28, 20241 min read
US Grain Exports Increased by 26% in 2023-2024 in All Forms - Valued at $48 Billion
The increase in exports were bolstered by a record 1,746,490,298 gallons of ethanol sold internationally and a single-market record 23.4...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Oct 21, 20242 min read
Plenty Opens World's First Indoor Strawberry Farm in Virginia To Produce 4M Pounds of Berries/Year
The Plenty Richmond Farm is designed to produce more than 4 million pounds of strawberries annually in less than 40,000 square feet by...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Early Reports Show Hurricane Helene has Caused Billions in Agricultural Damage
Across the southern U.S., “the crop losses alone could trigger $7 billion in insurance payouts, a US Department of Agriculture official...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Sep 4, 20241 min read
September 2024 California Processing Tomato Report
contracted production for California processing tomatoes is forecast at 11.3 million tons, averaging 50.0 tons per acre. The current prod...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Aug 14, 20242 min read
DCPA Ban Effective Immediately - First Time in 40 Years The EPA Has Used Emergency Action to Ban
The pesticide has been found to cause irreversible damage to fetuses in utero if they’re exposed to the chemical, and has been linked to...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Aug 12, 20242 min read
USDA Forecasts Record Soybean Crop in New Report - Up 10% From 2023 at 4.59B Bushels
The U.S. season-average soybean price for 2024/25 is forecast at $10.80 per bushel, down $0.30 from last month. The soybean meal price...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Aug 5, 20242 min read
Food Trends To Look Out For Coming Out of The 2024 Foodservice Conference
The IFPA Foodservice Conference had record attendance this year with more than 2,200 attendees including 1,000 foodservice buyers...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Jul 15, 20241 min read
China Makes It's First Purchase of U.S. Soybeans For the 2024 Crop Year
China made its first soybean purchase of the 2024-2025 crop year, booking 132,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans. By comparison, China made...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Jun 5, 20241 min read
2024 California Processing Tomato Report
California’s tomato processors reported they have or will have contracts for 11.5 million tons of processing tomatoes for 2024, 1% below...
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by Sara VanderPoel
May 8, 20242 min read
U.S. to Raise Tariffs on Phosphate Imports From Morocco to 14.21% From 2.12%
The proposed new rates will go into effect in November and apply retroactively to 2022 imports and will act as the new provisional rate...
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by Sara VanderPoel
May 7, 20241 min read
2024 CA Tomato Price Agreement Reached Between All Processors- Price Set at $112.5/ton
"CTGA considers $112.50 to be a fair and reasonable Base Price for this season. The Board also felt it was important to establish...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Apr 22, 20243 min read
National Hemp Report
According to the National Hemp Report released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, prices and acreage in the hemp industry...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Apr 10, 20242 min read
NCGA Opposes Corteva’s Petition for Duties on Herbicide Imports From India and China
“Farmers are price takers, not makers in selling our commodities, and closely managing our production costs is crucial to our success...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Apr 8, 20242 min read
U.S. Farmers to Plant 90M Acres of Corn - Down 5%, and 86.5M Acres of Soybeans
Acreage decreases of 300,000 acres or more from last year are expected in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, South Dak...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Mar 4, 20243 min read
Brazil’s Soybean Exports More Than Doubled U.S. Exports in 2023
Over the last two decades, Brazilian soybean exports jumped fourfold (431%), from 705 million bushels in 2004 to 3,744 million bushels in...
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by Sara VanderPoel
Feb 16, 20242 min read
U.S. Allows Farmers to Use Existing Supplies of Dicamba Weedkillers After Previous Ruling
The decision is a win for farmers who planned to use dicamba products sold by Bayer, BASF, and Syngenta on genetically modified soybeans...
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