Markets
Oil falls as China demand slows, U.S. gasoline sales dive
Crude oil prices settled lower on Monday after a choppy day of trading, hit by slowing oil demand in China and data showing the biggest drop for U.S. retail gasoline sales in more than four years.
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Market size for U.S. corn and soybeans
The USDA’s May 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report contained supply and consumption projections for the 2013-14 marketing year for U.S. corn and soybeans.
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Have crop questions? NASS has answers
When it comes to growing crops, weather is a constantly changing variable. These past few years, grain farmers have been on a veritable weather roller coaster.
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Ag markets generally strong again Monday morning
Concerns about old-crop supply tightness seemed to boost the grain and soy markets Monday morning, with the expiring May corn contract leading the way higher.
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Which comes first, the corn planting or nitrogen application?
While some parts of the Corn Belt made planting progress in the past week, not everyone did. And many farmers who are concerned about planting corn after the optimum planting dates may also wonder about changing their routine of field work.
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Drier weather to give big boost to U.S. corn plantings
Drier weather early this week in the U.S. crop belt will allow active corn plantings, countering the slowest seeding pace in nearly 30 years, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday.
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Crop insurance expands, costs grow in latest farm bills
The federally subsidized crop insurance program, the costliest part of the U.S. farm safety net, would spin off at least three new types of coverage and could cost 10 percent more under draft farm bills pending in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
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Oil falls to $103 on weak China demand
Crude prices fell to $103 a barrel on Monday weighed by a stronger dollar and a drop to an eight-month low in oil demand in the world's second-largest consumer China.
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Oil pares losses on weakening dollar, refinery boost
Brent and U.S. crude oil ended slightly down on Friday, after trading sharply lower for much of the session, rebounding as the U.S. dollar weakened and on late news reports that more oil would flow through BP Plc's Whiting, Indiana, refinery.
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Record world crops on horizon, USDA says; grain prices dip
Record-large U.S. corn and soybean crops will end three years of punishingly tight domestic supplies, the government said on Friday in a report that offered the brightest outlook in years for world food supplies.
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Crop markets fell in reaction to the Friday USDA reports
Corn futures declined significantly prior to the midday release of the USDA WASDE and Crop Production reports, which probably reflected early U.S. dollar gains.
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- Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
- Oil prices pare losses on U.S. equities turnaround
- Future of food discussion with Agriculture Secretary
- Ag markets diverged prove rather volatile on Thursday
- Hormel Foods profit declines as costs pinch
- Livestock Slaughter: Pork production up 5 percent from April 2012
