The June acreage report should be a major market mover as the USDA will update seeded acreage for this year. Of course, with good growing conditions during this summer, the USDA will begin to add yield potential back into the balance sheets and ending stocks will grow and prices will fall. The May USDA supply/demand report confirmed the bullish potential for soybean prices for new-crop prices. As with any productive season, prices will become very sensitive to weather issues during the...

weather and crop conditions continue to affect corn and soybean prices,but the June 29 release of the USDA s Acreage and Grain Stocks reports will provide additional fundamental information for these markets, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist. weather and crop conditions continue to affect corn and soybean prices,but the June 29 release of the USDA s Acreage and Grain Stocks reports will provide additional fundamental information for these markets, said a...

Most of the operations are sidelines for farmers or business hobbies for workers in other occupations, experts said. One researcher cautioned recently that American consumers are likely to eat an increasing amount of foreign-grown farm-raised fish in the near future. In this part of Ohio, most of the fish are sold to farmers and homeowners wanting to stock their ponds, but some are used for bait, and a smaller amount is sold to restaurants and grocers. Dan Longnecker, a trout farmer...

NEW YORK Commodities prices slumped across the energy, metals and agricultural markets Tuesday, led by declines in crude oil, gold and grains. In the agricultural markets, corn, soybeans and wheat all declined after a report by the Department of Agriculture showed better-than-expected progress in plantings and crop conditions, particularly in corn. Farmers had 92 percent of the expected corn acreage planted by May 20, compared with a five-year average of 86 percent at the same point. In...

UN Expresses Concern Over Soaring Afghan Opium Production [] 6/26/2007 6:21:26 AM The United Nations has expressed its concern over the soaring production of opium in Afghanistan, warning that the country is unlikely to regain real security until the production of illegal drugs is tackled on a war footing. UN Expresses Concern Over Soaring Afghan Opium Production [] 6/26/2007 6:21:26 AM The United Nations has expressed its concern over the soaring production of opium in Afghanistan,...

Nelson said that according to the information provided by the USDA, the program for accepting applications for assistance will be in place by approximately late October. Once applications are submitted it should take no longer than two months for them to be processed, so the first payments should be received at the end of this year. If successful, the legal action would result in licensed hemp farmers receiving assurances that no federal agency could hold them criminally liable under the...