| |  | | The news for China isn’t good financially. The country’s economic growth sank to a new multi-decade low in the latest quarter. That's as the trade war with Washington drags on, too. | | |
| |  | | The new “Kansas City Fed Ag Finance Databook” says farm lending has slowed in the third quarter of this year. That’s after nine, consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth. | | |
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| |  | | If you’re considering selling some of your wet grain to livestock owners, it’s important you determine who will test for mycotoxins. The season’s weather and conditions could mean mycotoxins spring up. | | |
| |  | | Pat Brown, CEO and founder of Impossible Foods, says his company has a simple mission: “To replace the need for animals as a food-production technology – globally, by 2035.” | | |
| |  | | Much of the eastern cornbelt harvest has not been hampered by excessive rain. In fact, there have been a long run of warm, even hot, days with merely light showers from time to time. The only holdup has been waiting for crops to be ready to cut. | | |
| |  | | Chapter 12 bankruptcy rules were put into effect as a result of the 1980's farm crisis. It was added specifically for farmers (and fisherman) to allow them to get relief from some debt; keep the farm; and hopefully get back on their feet. | | |
| |  | | Most beans in our area are combined. Average was consistently 10-20 percent below last year. Just getting a good start on corn. First 2 pivot quarters were 10 percent below last year. Starting to get some dry corn (16-17) on last week of April planted 113 day corn. Not a single person at the elevator bragging about yields. | | |
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