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Potato farmers are disappointed in the way the 2019 crop year is ending along the Red River Valley, from eastern North Dakota to northwestern Minnesota. The weather has forced many of those farmers to leave their crops in the fields after Mother Nature dealt a one-two punch. Damaged potatoes at...

Contributions by FreightWaves Market Analyst Alexandria Quevedo Even though it's October, reminders of the devastating March floods in the western Corn Belt haven't faded. Roads are still closed, farms drowned, and the volume of grain carloads leaving the region is still trying to play catch up....

By William Sumner, Hemp Business Journal Contributor Among the most significant reform benefits of the 2018 Farm Bill's passage was the ability for hemp cultivators to obtain federal crop insurance. Yet, more than 10 months after the measure's passage, no such policy has been...

Midwest corn harvests are about a month behind the typical season and expected corn yields are lower than last year. Meanwhile, in the southern United States, the corn harvest is business as usual for farmers.  The FreightWaves' SONAR chart below shows the increase in digital, or online, interest...

Potato farmers are asking U.S. agricultural officials for support in expanding export trade into Mexico.  Currently, American potato farmers and exporters are mostly barred from selling fresh potatoes in Mexico due to restrictions by the Mexican government, namely that U.S. growers can only sell...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for voices with unique knowledge of numerous transportation/logistics/supply chain sectors, as well as other critical expertise. Brazilian ethanol has proved a mixed blessing for struggling American corn growers and the carriers who own the trains,...

The United States is in a trade war with China, which began with tariffs that drove China to retaliate. The U.S. and China attempted to come to a trade agreement; however little has come from it. As a result, they have been seeking and using substitutes to the other nation's goods.  China has...

During his Twitter tirade last week, President Trump mentioned his displeasure with the fact that China has not upped its purchases of U.S. farm products as it promised it would as part of trade talks. Those comments affected agribusiness stocks. What Happened Not surprisingly, the VanEck Vectors...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/0 Farmers are protesting the national budget produced by Obrador, which cut financial aid to rural farmers by as much as 20 percent. Rural farmers also asked for fertilizer and other goods that they said were promised by the government. "In case the...

As many as 50,000 angry farmers throughout Mexico blocked highways and an international bridge along the Texas-Mexico border on July 17 in protest of the government of President Andres Manuel López Obrador.  The Mexican farmers' protest spread over 42 locations in some 23 Mexican states throughout...

Shares of Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) have sharply rebounded from May's weakness and the recovery now reflects the company's outlook, according to UBS. The Analyst UBS analyst Steven Fisher downgraded Deere from Buy to Neutral with a price target lifted from $158 to $167. The Thesis...

Historically heavy rainfall in the Midwest region of the United States has contributed to surging prices of agricultural commodities in more ways than one. Breached levies and flooded fields prevented farmers from planting their crops and also disrupted barge and rail traffic, preventing stockpiles...

Trade tensions remain the overriding story this morning as investors and traders gear up for a new day of trading after fierce selling yesterday. But the narrative seems to have changed just a bit as glimmers of optimism emanate from Washington and Beijing. President Trump said he would meet...

April Hemp Pricing Report The PanXchange April hemp pricing report is out, you can find the full report here. We will also begin onboarding clients to the physical trading platform in the coming weeks. Interested parties please visit our hemp trading page for more information. Beyond Meat Mania...

Hundreds of farmers may be out of luck trying to recuperate losses after last month's historic floods in the Midwest. Millions of bushels of grains were destroyed in more than 800 on-farm storage bins – mostly in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa – and U.S. Department of...