U.S. soybean farmer’s biggest foreign competitor Brazil faces new challenges as a judge moves to ban glyphosate until more toxicology studies are completed. However, that isn’t stopping the country from potentially increasing soybean acres up to 5%. “A substitute judge…
Friday a California jury found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by Dewayne Johnson alleging Roundup caused him cancer. The jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million. The verdict came from San Francisco’s Superior Court of California where a jury…
A year after another court denied a petition to ban chlorpyrifos, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has released its decision ordering the EPA to cancel all registrations for chlorpyrifos in the next 60 days. Chlorpyrifos has recently been in…
Near the end of August, roughly 100 scouts will head to the fields across the corn belt to gauge the nation’s corn and soybean crop’s yield potential with the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour. Because the crop is further along…
If the appearance of the soybean crop going into late July predicts how it will yield, the 2018 crop in Illinois is going to be a high-yielding one. The crop in Illinois was rated at 78% good + excellent (G+E)…
A wildfire in Idaho has burned nearly 100,000 acres in less than four days, killing some cattle and forcing thousands more off summer pasture. The Grassy Ridge Fire started on July 26 around 4 pm MST following a lightning strike…
While USDA continues to show corn and soybean conditions are impeccable, some farmers say crop conditions reports don’t tell the full story. According to Monday’s USDA Crop Progress Report, 72% of the nation’s corn crop is rated good to excellent.…
Navigating NAFTA 2.0 progress has been a game of “wait and see.” After several rounds of discussions among the three countries, a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is still in limbo. Now, leaders from both Mexico and the…
In today’s USDA Crop Progress Report, the agency indicated corn and soybean crops around the country are still maturing at record pace. The nation’s corn crop is well ahead of an average year with 81% of the crop silking compared…
Wheat ranks third among U.S. field crops in planted acreage, production, and gross farm receipts, behind corn and soybeans. Production has, however, dropped off over the past decade. USDA estimates U.S. farmers planted 46 million acres to wheat for the…