Pre USDA Report Thoughts

May 9, 2012

The typical trade guesses are searching for large adjustments compared to final months report and I wonder how willing the USDA will be to…

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Resurfacing of Euro-Zone Worries Pressure Grain Futures

May 9, 2012

U.S. stock market place set for weaker start off, also unfavorable for livestock futures.

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Current Rains Advantage Brazil’s Safrinha Corn Crop

May 8, 2012

Consultant raises Brazilian corn crop estimate.

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Grains Firmer Overnight in Lackluster Trade

May 8, 2012

Firmer dollar limits gains overnight.

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University of Illinois Commodity Week for May possibly four, 2012

May 6, 2012

Visitors Michael Cordonnier (Soybean & Corn Advisor) and Paula Savanti (Rabobank Int’l) take up the failed South American soybean crop with host Todd Gleason and panelists Matt Bennett, Bill Mayer, and Mike Zuzolo.

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Eldora producer testifies at U.S. House hearing

May 6, 2012

AMES (NCBA) – Dave Petty, an Eldora cattle producer, told members of Congress on April 26 that USDA’s conservation programs are a wonderful asset to cattle producers. “We want to see them continued and refined to make them a lot more producer-friendly and much more effective in protecting the atmosphere in a sensible manner,” he [...]

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DAVID KRUSE

May 5, 2012

The organic generate market has been undertaking very effectively. After all, this is America wherever salesmanship can be turned into income. People purchase items all the time they did not know that they required or wished until finally they had been skillfully marketed to them. Individuals want balanced, nutritious, secure meals and the natural market [...]

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Iowans discover Central American markets

May 5, 2012

AMES (ICA) – Iowa beef producers Dan Cook, of New Providence, and Kent Pruismann, of Rock Valley, participated in an Iowa Meat Trade Mission to Guatemala and Panama in early February. Cook, a past chairman of the Iowa Beef Industry Council, explained that the mission was exploratory in nature to establish if there is a [...]

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