Figuring out why corn futures prices dipped $2/bu. over the past two months may be one of those questions that only time will answer, says Bill Tierney, chief economist at AgResource Company in Chicago....More

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Anyone hoping for relief from corn prices received no encouragement from recent developments. The 2010-11 market year average farm price for corn was raised 10¢ on both ends of the range ($4.90-$5.70/bu.) in the monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates released Jan. 12....More

Does the ethanol industry rely too heavily on government subsidies?...More

Sufficient rainfall in much of the country will result in slightly higher average alfalfa yields than harvested last year, USDA predicts. But the yield gain won’t offset a 4% drop in acreage...More

Incredibly high grain prices apparently aren't going away, and plentiful supplies of corn might be harder to find for feedyard managers. But by contracting...More

If concern about mold and spoilage of wet distillers grains (WDG) has limited your use of this nutrient-rich byproduct of the ethanol industry, it may...More

For all the opportunities that come with value-added markets, they can be the tail wagging the proverbial fleabag if you lose sight of the core product while focusing on the extras some buyers are enamored with some of the time...More

U.S. corn producers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn this spring, the most in 63 years. According to USDA's March 30 Prospective Plantings...More

Feedyard managers have been scratching their heads for several months now, trying to figure out how to deal with higher corn prices...More

Stocks of all hay stored on farms totaled 96.4 million tons on Dec. 1, 2006, 8% lower than on the same date in 2005 and the lowest since 1988, says USDA's National Ag Statistics Service. Disappearance of hay from May to December totaled 66.6 million ......More

Keith Collins, USDA's chief economist, provided some ag perspectives on renewable energy before a Senate Ag Committee hearing this week. According to Collins: In 2000, the U.S. produced 1.6 billion gals. of ethanol, utilizing about 6% of the 2000 corn ......More