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In the absence of two critical issues, farm bill commodity programs would make little sense. Issue one: crop production can change considerably from year to year due to weather and disease, and issue two: over the long-haul supply increases faster than demand....More

Wheat futures received a bump up last week following the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report....More

To the wheat industry, China is like an elephant in the corner....More

Petroleum prices should remain high for the foreseeable future, while natural gas prices should remain low and electricity prices are likely to increase slowly. Demand is likely to remain high for nitrogen, potash and phosphorus fertilizers, but production costs will have much less impact than commodity prices...More

The United States is narrowing the gap between what it buys from other countries and what it sells overseas, says Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, chief agricultural negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. “And agriculture is leading the way,” Siddiqui said at the recent Southwest Ag Issues Summit in Austin....More

Some wood may need knocking on here, but a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service spokesman expects commodity prices to remain at historically high levels for the next decade. Michael Dwyer, director of the FAS Global Policy Analysis Division, says “things never looked so good—if you have a crop to sell,” this year. “If realized, 2012 will be another record setting year for all measures of farm income.”...More

When a group of U.S. soybean farmers recently stepped off a plane in China, they anticipated a celebration of 30 years of partnership....More

Although Brazil is struggling with various concepts of the STAX plan, which could be a key component for cotton in a future farm bill, they are showing a willingness to work with it to resolve subsidy disputes....More

A tsunami of red ink is about to wash across the pork industry, which is facing losses unseen even in the fall of 1998 when hog prices at times approached zero value....More

Cotton prices (Dec12 futures) have moved above the target 75-cent mark, closing Friday at 75.21....More

“Most farmers sell in the bottom one-third of the market.” This myth has been repeated often enough over the years that some producers believe it. But the facts tell a different story: Most producers sell in the top one-half of the market....More