Market Features
Season 48
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Winter weather sweeps across the South and up to the East Coast
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Adjusting to live in college and back home can be a challenge - especially when you enter the family farm in a completely different role than anything they've done before. That is the challenge facing Hannah Borg in Nebraska.
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Continued drought in cattle grazing regions of the United States has seen farmers and ranchers cut their animal numbers, reducing the size of the national cattle herd to levels not seen since 1962.
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While the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the global economy, the repercussion carved into rural America was its own animal.
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Another round of tornadoes swept the South in the month of January. This time two suburbs of Houston were hit, along with parts of Alabama while a major snow storm ground air and land travel to a halt.
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The University of Nebraska released their farm production cost budgets for 2023, and estimated increases in almost every input category.
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Another round of atmospheric river of moisture flows out to California helping ease drought, but cause several problems in the wake of the system.
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There are dozens of solar projects in Minnesota that fall under the category of “Community Solar”, where solar energy is sold directly to consumers rather than adding electricity to the general grid.
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A coalition of 18 farm and industry groups sue the EPA over the new Waters of the United States rule.
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Maple Leaf Farms, along with Culver Duck, a nearby competitor, have helped push Indiana to the number one spot in the nation when it comes to raising duck, selling 14.5 million, almost 60 percent of the nation’s total.
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Coastal California dealt several rounds of wind and water while the Southeast is hit with massive rain storms and severe weather.
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The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule last week that reverts the definition of “Waters of the United States” to its Reagan-era origins.
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Weather swings continue to whipsaw everyone as the switch flips from subzero to spring-like conditions across the country. While next week is predicted to be a bit milder, the past week was a wake-up call that it’s still winter.
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Weather and policy stories are constant each year. Themes emerged in 2022 of higher land, fertilizer and commodity prices. But what fell, or didn’t fall is what made headlines this year. This look back is our Cover Story.
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Farmland values in Iowa saw huge increases in value, mimicking increases in national farmland values.
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Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig was inspired from her short time in Europe before returning stateside in work for NASA. Framework started in her graduate studies have served as roadmaps for the United Nations and the formation of AgMIP.
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Backups at ports on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts have left cargo ships stacked up waiting to unload creating headaches for businesses wanting to get their goods in or out of the U.S. interior, and they're looking for other options.
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The water level of the Mississippi River has improved in recent weeks, but the river remains too low for normal shipping volumes.
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The Rocky Mountains make a picturesque backdrop for the daily routine of Nick Trainor, a fifth generation cattle rancher based in Watkins, Colorado.
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Biden and Xi meet to talk issues. Former Ambassador Branstad adds his take on the meeting.
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The insects traveling during this drone launch by M3 Agriculture Technologies are codling moths, the bane of existence for many pear and apple orchard owners.
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China, Mexico, Japan and Colombia all took more than 1 billion bushels of U.S. corn in 2021. The number two destination upheld a change in the type of yellow corn they’ll let in the country. David Miller reports.
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New outbreaks of HPAI were reported this week in Wyoming, Wisconsin, Virginia, Ohio, Washington and Pennsylvania. Nearly every state has dealt with infections this time, but many things have been learned since the last big outbreak eight years ago. Colleen Bradford Krantz reports in our Cover Story.
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The look forward comes in the form of elections and is less concrete just days after the polls closed. A few races are still too close to call and keep in doubt who moves into majority or minority positions. Peter Tubbs has our election wrap up.
Season 47
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When is a recession a recession - The chair of the Chicago Fed speaks.
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As years-long arid conditions grip the western U.S., producers in Europe are enduring their continent’s worst drought in decades.
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During the megadrought, Colorado and Nebraska fight over water rights.
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Duluth and Cleveland ports are both now handling dedicated container ships, hoping to help ease congestion elsewhere.
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Several thousand residents are still waiting for power and drinking water to be restored.
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Monday, the House Ag Committee held its fourth listening session of the year in Rice County, Minnesota. The previous session had occurred in the Western United States, and speakers there focused on water issues.
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After rallying in vain against the Dakota Access Pipeline, activists in Iowa brought reinforcements to push back on a new proposal to transport a different hazardous material beneath the state’s fertile landscapes.
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The 2021 growing season offered a challenging dry-weather test for many sunflower-growing regions, and some may struggle this year as well.
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This week, the House Ag Committee held a hearing on possible changes to the crop insurance system that subsidizes the prices farmers pay to insure their crops against weather loss.
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Culling the herd to stay above water.
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Iowa is a leader in several farm commodities, but collateral damage – in the form of runoff-impaired waterways – has spurred legal actions designed to thwart pollution linked to agriculture. While ultimately dismissed, those moves may have helped cultivate renewed interest in farm conservation.
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Owners of small and medium size meat processors gather to examine what the future might hold for their industry.
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Harvest is underway in Ukraine despite nearby fields being on fire and the need to avoid shell holes or unexploded ordnance.
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A derecho damaged crops in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
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Holiday week is a good time for a crop progress report with two producers we spoke to in the spring. Here's Paul Thomas and Cameron Peirce.
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New rules for drones may help agriculture.
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The R-CALF challenge to the constitutionality of the Beef Checkoff was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.
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Shawn Tiffany was recently in front of the Senate Agriculture committee testifying on a litany of bills aimed at the livestock industry. As an independent owner/operator, the story is personal to his family and community.
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Sec. Tom Vilsack announces new initiatives in a trip to the Midwest.
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Less than 10 years ago, casinos, local business and governments parlayed their influence into a deal with the Iowa legislature – to phase-out millions in state gaming subsidies which had kept tracks afloat even as dog racing declined nationwide. This year the well ran dry.
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The Supreme Court of the United States rejected an appeal from Bayer AG to shut down thousands of lawsuits over the safety of glyphosate.
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Senate Ag Committee opens a gate for cattle producers
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The WTO chief insisted that trade has lifted 1 billion people out of poverty, but poorer countries – and poor people in richer ones – are often left behind.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the deepening drought in the western U.S.
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Historic flooding in Yellowstone National Park will likely close parts of the destination for months. Much of the U.S. also baked under 100 degree temps as summer is just beginning.
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The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to California's Prop 12 this fall.
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On Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations invited witnesses to discuss the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP and the Farm Safety Net.
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California producer Joe Del Bosque is entering another year of growing several crops with less water from the sky and his allotment. Our conversation looks his farm, water story and hopes for the pending harvest.
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The USDA announced funds for a series of projects intending to make the U.S. food system more resilient.
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In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic triggered economic fallout leading to job losses for tens of millions in the U.S. alone. For one recent college graduate, being laid-off was the final nudge he needed to branch-out - by returning to his roots.
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The Russian blockade of Ukraine may keep millions of tons of grain off of global markets, would could lead to famine in dozens of countries.
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