In tonight’s Evening Edition, examine crop progress across the nation, agriculture coverage, and a global perspective.
Crop Progress
USDA’s Crop Progress Report was launched in the present day, delayed sooner or later from the standard Monday schedule as a result of Independence Day vacation.
As of July 3, 7% of corn is silking in contrast with 11% for the earlier five-year common. Corn in good/glorious situation dropped to 64%.
Read the newest abstract from govt editor Laurie Bedord for updates on soybeans, wheat, and oats across the U.S.
XtremeAg farmers Kelly Garrett, Matt Miles and Kevin Matthews obtained crop-saving rains over the past week. As the crop will get nearer to pollination, the farmers are hoping for a break within the warmth and extra frequent rains.
See images from their farms in Iowa, Arkansas, and North Carolina within the newest article from XtremeAg.
Agriculture Policy
A current report produced by Farm Action and Open Markets Institute, gave letter grades to 3 federal departments and companies with roles implementing antitrust legal guidelines and selling competitors: the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Agriculture. The DOJ and FTC each obtained B- scores; the USDA obtained a D+.
The group cites failure to implement new guidelines for the Packers & Stockyards Act, which has been an ongoing battle for the division. In 2010, the USDA didn’t cross Packers & Stockyards guidelines and little progress has been made within the 12 years since.
“Secretary Vilsack, under the Obama administration, has already written these rules twice,” mentioned Joe Maxwell, president of Farm Action, in an interview with the Daily Yonder. “We feel very strongly that after a year [since the executive order] they should be further along.”
Per week after a House committee voted to ban China from buying U.S. agricultural land, the No. 3 House Republican chief cited nationwide safety considerations in spearheading laws to dam China from buying U.S. agricultural firms. The restrictions had been proposed on the similar time enterprise teams sought removing of U.S. tariffs on Chinese items, remnants of the Sino-U.S. commerce struggle.
Chuck Abbott shares extra on this current article.
Since early this 12 months, farm teams apprehensive about rising manufacturing prices have known as for larger reference costs, that are utilized in calculating crop subsidies, to be written into the 2023 farm invoice. Congress is months away from drafting the farm invoice, so there was little dialogue of the budgetary influence. But it could possibly be vital, in line with college economists who checked out a associated idea: The reference-price escalator that was included within the 2018 farm regulation.
“The reference price escalator is likely to increase the reference price over the next farm bill period for a number of program commodities, including corn and soybeans,” mentioned economists Gary Schnitkey, Krista Swanson, Nick Paulson and Jonathan Coppess of the University of Illinois and Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University.
Read what this might imply in your farm within the newest story from Chuck Abbott.
International perspective
Last month, Digital content material editor Megan Schilling traveled to Denmark with agriculture journalists from across the globe. She toured biogas services, college analysis plots, farm cooperatives, and natural and seed crop farms.
The expertise left her pleased with her farming roots and the Successful Farming legacy.
Shilling displays on the journey within the newest SF Blog story.