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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
American farmers are going to be producing more corn and soybeans than expected this year, which will mean lower expected prices for the crops, according to a new USDA forecast that boosted the department’s predictions for yields in both crops.
Brazil, the world juggernaut of agricultural production over the past 20 years, has the land, weather, labor and potential to increase soybean, corn and meat production even more dramatically over the next two decades, according to Brazilian and U.S. analysts.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 – On the heels of a late snowfall devastating much of the Kansas winter wheat crop, the Department of Agriculture is projecting a 25 percent drop in U.S. production from a year ago.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - In 2016, the U.S. exported more than 1 billion gallons (68,000 barrels per day) of fuel ethanol, an increase of 26 percent from 2015, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2, 2017 - U.S. crude oil production increased for the second consecutive month in November 2016, the first time this has occurred since early 2015...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017 – The U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization is warning that mankind's future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from ....
