If U.S. farmers believe commodity prices will stay strong for the next five years, the Senate’s farm bill proposal could be a good choice, say Texas AgriLife Extension economists....More

As wheat harvest begins or nears across the Southwest, farmers anticipate production will range from near-record yields to near disaster, depending on rainfall amounts and timing of rain events. Wheat observers from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas report that the 2012 crop will be earlier than normal....More

The USDA’s projections of U.S. and world corn and feed grain supply-and-demand conditions presented in the May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report set the benchmark by which the corn market will judge unfolding events. According to a University of Illinois agricultural economist, those events are continually unfolding, with some of the more important ones to be revealed this summer....More