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USDA this morning released its Agricultural Outlook Forum acreage, yield and production numbers. These are widely anticipated by the trade and will be incorporated into the May WASDE (World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates) for corn and soybeans. The May WASDE includes the first official set of supply and demand tables for the new crop year.
USDA expects a slight decline in total acreage across wheat, corn, and soybean to 224 million (down ~1%). This number assumes a normal level of prevent plant acres and a modest expansion in the Conservation Reserve Program.…
The 36th annual All Day Ag Outlook will be held Tuesday, March 3, at the Beef House in Covington, Indiana. Join the WILLAg analysts and the farmdoc team for the day. We’ll cover the basics this year, including the markets, weather, weeds, trade, competition, land values, and crop insurance decisions. Click the registration link for complete details.
Doors open at 7:30 a.m. central / 8:30 a.m. eastern and include both coffee and rolls in the morning and a Beef House lunch.…We had another cold and mostly dry week across the state. Average temperatures this week ranged from the low teens in northern Illinois to the high 20s in southern Illinois, between 8 and 18 degrees below average. A healthy snowpack in the southern half of the state helped push nighttime low temperatures well below 0, including lows of 7 below in Taylorville and 4 below in Jerseyville. The cold end to January pushed the month as a whole to be around 2 degrees below normal statewide.…
