The National Pork Producers Council is infuriated the European Union is refusing to include agriculture in trade negotiations with the U.S. NPPC vice president of global government affairs Nick Giordano says it’s unacceptable the European Commission recently issued...

Missouri Governor Mike Parson says he’ll be “really aggressive” with almost $5 million in the state budget augmenting federal money to improve rural broadband connectivity in Missouri. “It’s important to me to make sure every kid and every community has the...

A grain marketing consultant says continued dryness in Brazil is friendly to corn prices. Dr. Michael Cordonnier tells Brownfield the outlook for second-crop Safrina corn is concerning if weather patterns stay dry. “They’ve planted about six percent of that corn,...

Minnesota Farm Bureau continues to seek changes to the state tax code to conform with the federal government. Farm Bureau director of public policy Amber Hanson-Glaeser says last year efforts in the legislature to bring Minnesota’s Section 179 equipment expensing rule...

Milk futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started the week lower pressured by loses in the cash market. January class III milk futures closed unchanged at $13.99.  February down nine cents at $14.13.  March down 15 cents at $14.49.  April down 17 cents at...

The National Pork Producers Council says commerce has been mostly uninterrupted in the pork industry during the government shutdown. “U.S. packing plants employ about 500,000 workers and without FSIS being deemed essential, those employees and facilities would have...