by Doug Mayo | Apr 27, 2018
Eighty-cent cotton is within sight. Prices (December futures) trended down last week, but rebounded on Thursday and Friday—closing at 79.43 cents. December 2018 futures broke 79 cents for the first time, and gained 52 points for the week. Some producers began and...
by Doug Mayo | Apr 13, 2018
A tariff is a fee assessed on imports. The tariff is a per-unit charge that has to be paid to the government by whomever brings the good across the border, and into the country. Assuming this fee is passed on by the importer, the impact of a tariff is to increase...
by Judy Biss | Apr 6, 2018
Farmers and ranchers must manage traditional business practices to be successful, but they also deal with the many challenges of ever changing weather. Rain, wind, and temperature are important and obvious aspects of weather that producers track on a daily basis, but...
by btillman | Apr 6, 2018
Peanut seed is likely on its way to many buying point locations this week and next week, as peanut planting will begin soon in the Florida Panhandle. Planting is already underway in Levy County and surrounding areas, where soil temperatures are warming quickly...
by Ethan Carter | Apr 6, 2018
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registered new dicamba herbicide product formulations for making applications to dicamba tolerant cotton and soybean crops. As a result, many states were overwhelmed with drift complaints regarding sensitive crops....
by Doug Mayo | Apr 6, 2018
On March 29, USDA released their Prospective Plantings report, which in my opinion, gets us much closer to what will eventually be the acres planted in 2018. The 13½ million acre neighborhood, or even higher, is what has been expected by many observers, and that’s...
