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New-Crop Soybean Oil Export Projection Suggests Greater Price Volatility
The USDA recently released its first official World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) for the 2026/27 soybean marketing year on May 12. The report was neutral to slightly bullish…
2025 NASS County Corn, Soybean, and Winter Wheat Yields
US corn and soybean yields reached record levels in 2025 while the US winter wheat yield was second only to the yield in 2016. Following the typical pattern, corn and soybean yields were highest in the main Corn Belt region with lower yields estimated in counties in surrounding areas. Wheat yields are also high in the Midwest but yields in the primary production regions ranged from above average in the Pacific Northwest and eastern Kansas to below average in most of Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado.
Rewriting the RFS Playbook: The Challenge of Meeting D4 Biomass-Based Diesel RIN Generation for 2026-2027
The analysis presented in this article frames the central question facing the biomass-based diesel sector and obligated parties under the EPA’s final Set 2 rule: How will the market deliver an unprecedented increase in D4 RIN generation in 2026 and 2027? The required monthly pace of D4 RIN net generation must rise from 592 million gallons in 2025 to 916 million gallons in 2026 and 991 million gallons in 2027—levels that exceed any sustained monthly pace in the historical record.
The High Cost of Honey Bee Colony Losses: Rebuilding Inventories and Managing Health
Despite persistent honey bee colony health issues and widespread attention on colony losses in the U.S., colony inventories have remained relatively stable. Using USDA data, this article shows U.S. beekeepers…
Conservation & Risk, Part 1: Introduction and Hypothesis
It is possible that the conceptualization of agricultural conservation, as reflected in federal policy, is insufficient, incomplete, or too narrow, and that helps explain issues such as funding challenges, backlogs in approved applications, farmer frustration, low adoption, discontinuation of critical practices, and more. A topic of this scale and scope needs a place to start. We began with cover crops and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Margin Coverage Option (MCO) 2026 Input Harvest Prices
The Margin Coverage Option (MCO) is an endorsement product introduced last fall and offered to producers for their 2026 crop year (see farmdoc daily September 16, 2025). MCO covers operating…
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Any US-China Summit Ag Deal Will Likely Be Limited, Experts Say
Farmers broadly expect an agriculture deal to be made at this week’s US-China summit, but enthusiasm is waning that it will be large enough to transform tough economic conditions. They’re…
Worsening Spring Drought Puts U.S. Wheat at Risk
The United States experienced its worst spring drought on record last month, with more than 60% of land in the lower 48 states experiencing moderate drought or worse. The drought…
76% of USDA Researchers Tell Union They Won’t Relocate
USDA relocated hundreds of ERS and NIFA positions to Kansas City in 2019, but about 85% of impacted employees quit their jobs or retired, rather than relocate. The American Federation…
DOJ Reaches Settlement with Agri Stats Over Meat Price-Fixing
The U.S. Department of Justice and six states settled their antitrust lawsuit against data company Agri Stats on Thursday in a move DOJ officials said would lower meat prices for…
Farmer Sentiment Falls in April on Input Cost & Availability Concerns
Farmer sentiment weakened in April as producers continue to grapple with rising input costs and ongoing uncertainty about availability, according to the latest Purdue University Ag Economy Barometer.