Corn trolling fees hit record high
Last spring’s flooding may have played a role in the explosion of the 2019/20 corn troll population, which is up 66.6 percent from last [...]
Mexico continues to be great trade partner for U.S.
U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico grew over 32 percent from 2009 to 2018, per USDA. In 2018, Mexico was the top export destination for [...]
Raisin production is falling despite last year’s gain
California raisin production increased 17 percent (in terms of handled volume) in 2018 from 2017’s small volume but was down 7-10 percent from more [...]
Foreign competition impacting corn exports
For the week ending Oct. 17, 2019/20 corn exports of 489,040 MT were up 12 percent from the week before. Yet cumulative exports, at [...]
Fallout from USDA’s move out of Washington
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NAFA) and the Economic Research Service (ERS) have each lost between 50 and 75 percent of their [...]
Amendments to Sugar Suspension Agreements ordered vacated
In a ruling earlier this month, a Court of International Trade judge ordered that the 2017 amendments to the U.S.-Mexico Suspension Agreements be vacated. [...]
Cooler fall temps as dairy herd shows signs of recovery
Dairy data releases in the last two weeks included some encouraging signs of herd recovery and bearish stocks numbers. Last Monday’s USDA Milk Production [...]
AJC stocks rose in August despite import slowdown
The U.S. imported just 21.6 million single-strength-equivalent gallons of apple juice in August, an extremely low volume for the month. The five-year average for [...]