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It’s a fall of firsts around our house. Our daughter Hazel started kindergarten, which includes riding the school bus. She lost her two front teeth on the same day, started dance through the Hartford community education program, and she got to take her first school field trip.
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US canola production raised again in USDA crop report. The U.S. canola industry continues to set new records as the first USDA production forecast for canola for 2024 was released in its Oct. 11 Crop Production Report. Canola production is forecast at a record high 4.93 billion pounds, up 19 percent from 2023. Production in North Dakota will be
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Cattle on Feed report contains bullish tone. The USDA released its latest Cattle on Feed report Aug. 23. Colorado State University ag economist Stephen Koontz said in his “In the Cattle Markets” column that the placements, marketings and on-feed numbers were within the ranges of pre-report expectations but said the report has a bullish tone.
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Growing PRRS losses cost pork producers. AMES, Iowa — Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome caused an estimated $1.2 billion per year in lost production in the U.S. pork industry from 2016 to 2020, an 80% increase from a decade earlier, according to a new analysis by an Iowa State University expert.
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Pork supply could rely on exports for demand. Large supplies of pork will be coming down the pipeline in the coming months. The USDA released its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report last week, which included an overall inventory that was up 4% from a year ago, although down slightly from December 2019.
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Missouri soybean testing reflects variety of weather conditions. COLUMBIA, Mo. — Fifty years ago, in 1973, the University of Missouri included soybeans in its crop yield testing program for the first time. Every year since, MU has conducted its soybean variety testing, seeing how they fare across the state in all kinds of conditions, from ...
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Canola market bounces back from China news. The canola market has bounced back strongly from the price drop early in September when China announced an anti-dumping investigation of Canadian canola. The futures price shortly before the announcement was $614 Canadian per metric ton (MT) and dropped as far as $540 only to rebound back to….
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U.S. cow-calf producers have been expanding the size of their herds since 2014, when the cattle and calves inventory bottomed out at 88.5 million head. A year ago at this time, the inventory stood at 94.4 million head, nearly 7 percent larger than four years earlier.