19 Dec 2024
RAMSEY, Minn., Dec. 19, 2024 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced awards for more than $4.37 billion in clean energy investments through the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program. Rural electric cooperatives will use the funding to support thousands of jobs, lower electricity cost...
19 Dec 2024
GRAIN BELT WX ROUNDUP Ohio Morning Temperature And Precipitation Summary National Weather Service Cleveland OH 712 AM EST Thu Dec 19 2024 Values represent highs yesterday and lows over the last 12 hours and precipitation over the last 24 hours ending at 7 AM EST/8 AM EDT. M = Missing Data T = Trace .BR CLE 1219 ES DH00/TAIRZX/DH07/TAIRZP/PPDRZZ/SFD...
19 Dec 2024
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2024 – U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the second round of Regional Agricultural Promotion Program (RAPP) grants, which is intended to allocate $300 million to 67 partners once all legal and administrative requirements are satisfied, expanding American food and agricultural exports in emergi...
19 Dec 2024
USDA MARKET NEWS--AFTERNOON CATTLE REPORT 12/19/24 VOLUME USDA TOTAL RANGE DTN PRACTICAL RANGE WT AVG KANSAS CONFIRMED CASH SALES - TODAY: 737 WEEK TO DATE: 2,370 STEERS LIVE FOB 67 191.00-191.00 191.00-191.00 191.00 STEERS LIVE DELIVERED No reportable trade HEIFERS LIVE FOB 276 191.00-191.00 191.00-191.00 191.00 HEIFERS LIVE DELIVERED No reportabl...
19 Dec 2024
REDFIELD, Iowa (DTN) -- Since the beginning of the H5N1 influenza outbreak in dairy cows in March, more than 860 herds have been affected. To trace herds affected by the virus, testing began this week on Grade A milk intended for pasteurization. "We know currently the cases we are seeing are in California and Nevada as far as the dairy industry goe...
19 Dec 2024
USDA Daily Market Rates 12/19 DAILY MARKET RATES(GRAIN/MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES) Effective: December 19, 2024 The following Market Rates are established to aid in the development of the Posted County Prices (PCPs) which are used by county Farm Services Agency (FSA) Offices for loan redemption purposes. Uses of these rates for other purposes may no...
19 Dec 2024
DTN Early Word Livestock Comments 12/19 06:09 Cattle Traders Await Cash Trade The cattle complex posted losses across the board as cash has not traded giving the impression the packers may not be short-bought. Hog futures showed gains supported by packer aggressiveness and higher pork values. Robin Schmahl DTN Contributing Analyst Cattle: Steady Fu...
19 Dec 2024
DTN Early Word Grains 12/19 05:47 Grain Markets Mixed to Mostly Lower After Very Poor Performance Wednesday March corn is down 3/4 cent per bushel, January soybeans are down 1/4 cent, March KC wheat is down 6 1/4 cents, March Chicago wheat is down 9 cents and March Minneapolis wheat is down 4 1/4 cents. Kent Beadle, DTN Contributing Analyst EARLY M...
19 Dec 2024
Editor's Note: Each year, DTN publishes our choices for the Top 10 ag news stories of the year as selected by DTN analysts, editors and reporters. This year, we're counting them down from Dec. 18 to Dec. 31. On Jan. 1, 2025, we will look at some of the runners-up for the year. Today, we continue the countdown with No. 9: A federal court vacated the...
18 Dec 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Less than a day after details were released, the entire funding bill for the federal government -- and nearly $31 billion in disaster and economic aid to farmers -- appeared to fall apart Wednesday because President-elect Donald Trump, Vice-President-elect JD Vance and their adviser, Elon Musk, all want to kill the overall bill. In a...