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Wyttenbach Meats in Prairie du Sac has become the first state-inspected meat processing plant to start shipping products to out-of-state markets. Wisconsin is one of three states in the nation to sign a cooperative agreement under new USDA rules...      House begins farm bill debate The House is prepared to get to work on the farm bill, in prepared remarks, Ag Committee Chair Frank Lucas explained the four-year process used to generate the bill including consideration of more than 200 amendments during markup. He noted the... Many amendments to consider in House Farm Bill As of Monday, the House Rules Committee had posted 226 amendments for that chamber’s version of the farm bill. Among them was one to set the target price for all crops at 55 percent of the five-year rolling Olympic average. That amendment also... Global Dairy Trade prices up/ Outlook prices down After declining for the last two months, the overall average price nudged a little higher on the Global Dairy Trade Auction in New Zealand on Tuesday. Cheddar cheese was 6.5 percent lower and butter milk powder declined 2.2 percent from the June 4th... Mostly higher day for grains and oilseeds Soybeans were mostly firm with July down on profit taking and the others up on crop development concerns. Planting is 85% complete, compared to 91% on average, and emergence is slow, but it is worth noting the crop is in better shape than it was... Early corn crops turning yellow and purple With the struggle to get corn in the ground, it’s likely that farmers are seeing uneven plant growth and some strange colors. Yellow and purple corn crops have been common as soil conditions change. University of Illinois crop sciences...  Cattle bids and asking prices not reported Cattle country remained very quiet on Tuesday afternoon with no bids reported. Although feedlot managers are equally quiet regarding asking prices, DTN says their guess is that steers and heifers are priced around 123.00 in the South and 198.00 in... Talks on US/EU trade proposal officially open Formal talks on the proposed U.S./European Union trade deal known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) officially opened Monday at the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland. Agriculture is expected be one of several sticking points... Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: June 18, 2013 Jul. corn closed at $6.73 and 1/4, up 4 and 3/4 cents Jul. soybeans closed at $15.10 and 3/4, down 1 and 3/4 cents Jul. soybean meal closed at $451.80, up $2.70 Jul. soybean oil closed at 48.81, down 3 points Jul. wheat closed at $6.87 and 1/2, up 7... Vilsack and Napolitano support immigration bill U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano support the Senate immigration bill that Vilsack says will be good for agriculture. “And there’s no question that absent it, we will continue to have shortages and we... Ohio Bicentennial Farms recognized The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) honored three families who have maintained their farms for more than 200 years as Ohio Bicentennial Farms during a ceremony at the Pickaway County Fair on Monday, June 17. The farms recognized included: Fagan...  Project’s goal is higher yielding grain sorghum The development of higher yielding and more advanced grain sorghum is the goal of a new project recently announced by the United Sorghum Checkoff Program. The Sorghum Checkoff will partner with the sorghum research and development firm Chromatin on...  Illinois: Soil Moisture Levels Remain Slightly Above Normal Soil moisture levels remained slightly above normal in the middle of June in Illinois, according to Jennie Atkins, Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring (WARM) Program Manager at the Prairie Research Institute, Illinois State Water Survey,... An update on the sow housing issue–part 1 Dallas Hockman is the director of industry affairs with the National Pork Producers Council. For the past few months, Hockman has been meeting with various restaurant, grocery and food service chains that have called for the elimination of sow... Vilsack: House’s SNAP cuts ‘unacceptable’ Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the 20 billion dollar cut in the SNAP, or food stamp program, that is part of the House Farm Bill, is “unacceptable”. Speaking Monday at a farm bill town hall meeting in Lubbock, Texas, Vilsack said that... |
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