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As planting continues across farm country, it’s a good time to evaluate our weather up to this point in the year. Meteorologist Brad Rippey with USDA provided farm broadcasters with an update. “We still see significant drought on the US landscape. More than a third of the country currently, 37% experiencing drought. According to US […]

The USDA released the May World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates Report this week. The May report always includes the first look at new crop corn and soybean supply and demand tables. Joe Jansen is an agricultural economist from the University of Illinois. Janzen talks about his broad takeaway from the WASDE and the new […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. On Monday we got more data and news than we were able to process in one day. The US Treasury Secretary met with a Chinese delegation in Switzerland over the weekend. What was expected was just the […]

As we prepare to host the Got to Be NC Festival May 16-18 at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, we are also celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Got to Be NC marketing program.   

We are pleased to report that the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Program is rolling forward. The South Carolina Department of Agriculture partnered with USDA AMS to award $4.1 million for 26 projects The 26 projects consist of four infrastructure projects and 22 equipment projects Goal of these grants to build resilience along the middle […]

(Washington, D.C., May 11, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the suspension of live cattle, horse, and bison imports through U.S. ports of entry along the southern border due to the continued and rapid northward spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) in Mexico, effective immediately. NWS has been recently detected in […]

While we have a Waters of the United States Rule in place, there may still be questions about where it goes from here. Mary-Thomas Hart was at NAFB’s 2025 Washington Watch and said there’s been a rule in place since 2023. “We have a WOTUS rule in place. After a 2023 unanimous Supreme Court decision, […]

The U.S. and the United Kingdom reached the framework of a trade agreement that included opening U.K. market access for American agricultural products. Dave Salmonsen, senior director of government affairs for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the new agreement is the first step in a much larger picture. “This is, in a sense, the […]

We’re getting into a time of the year now where we’re starting to see some timely rains come through. We’ve had a few this past week. Let’s find out what kind of an impact that has made on crops and the drought monitor as we turn to our friend Corey Davis from the state climate […]

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at [email protected] or 843-540-4540. We have seen a fast planting pace in the US so far and the forecast indicates a warm and dry stretch over the next 7 days for most of the Midwest. The planters will keep running wide […]