“On a year-over-year basis, ammonia is down 50%, phosphates are down a little less than that, but they're still down in the low teens, and potash prices are down 44%,” says Samuel Taylor with Rabobank. Wholesale prices for herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are also coming down. When it comes to the price of seed, though, there won't be much relief.
Retired ag lender Joe Kessie joins the Top Producer podcast to chat about three reasons why he doesn't expect what he experienced in the 1980s to occur in the 2020s.
After losing its third consecutive trial, a Bayer investor called for the company to reconsider its litigation strategy, and a trial lawyer signaled interest in restarting settlement talks for thousands of Roundup cases.
While a few cotton fields flourished with yields to brag about at the gin, the majority of the region’s production suffered, from one weather extreme to another.
Phillip Hord and Jessica Stevens are two examples of what happens when pig farmers think outside of the box to grow demand and build confidence in U.S. pork among consumers.
