🌾 Ags this week: 🌍 Middle East escalation → higher Crude, weaker risk assets, continued inflows into ags (record Sugar buying last week). 📈 Key events: USDA acreage Tuesday, NFP jobs Friday. 📊 The U.S. Plains need rain. 🌧️ Seasonals turn bullish into April. #CrudeOil #Grains #USDA
DOGE cuts to USDA hit Iowa harder than almost any other state. Rural development loans. Farm Service Agency offices. Conservation program funding.
Iowa's agricultural economy runs on federal infrastructure. Strip it away and farms fail. #NoKings #Iowa #USDA
DOGE cuts to USDA hit Iowa harder than almost any other state. Rural development loans. Farm Service Agency offices. Conservation program funding.
Iowa's agricultural economy runs on federal infrastructure. Strip it away and farms fail. #NoKings #Iowa #USDA
As someone who is on constant #FinstadWatch, I received an email entitled "Finstad....is this because he is FULL OF SHIT ??????????????" alerting me to #HR8104 Fertilizer Transparency Act which would require #USDA to publish weekly #fertilizer price data online (hmm sounds like more government)
Join the DTN WASDE Report Webinar 2026
Our ag-industry favorite, the #WASDE report #webinar covering April’s #USDA WASDE report is on April 9. Join Rhett Montgomery, DTN Lead Analyst, and hear in-depth insights into #corn, #soy, #wheat, and more: dtn.link/xbzsik
#grains #agriculture #AgWebinar #webinar #GrainStocks #AgMarkets
Trump's 'farmer' event= corporate landowners & agribusiness execs. Black farmers weren't invited. Again. While his USDA just canceled $300M in grants that help actual farmers. This is not a celebration of farmers. He's celebrating those who've replaced them. #BlackFarmers #USDA
The Superstition Wilderness inside the Tonto National Forest; Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
#ForestFriday
#USForestService
#USDA
So many factors influencing the farm economy right now. Rising fertilizer prices affect corn. Export market uncertainty (China) affect soybeans. High costs tied to the war and tariffs. Distrust of #USDA data due to major staff cutbacks. No #FarmBill in sight.
#ElonMusk and #DOGE gutted the #USDA.
(www.wired.com/story/usda-f...)
Now, #Recall after #Recall.
#GroundBeef
#MetalContamination
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Trump to Announce Aid for U.S. Farmers Friday: Trump will announce measures Friday, Mar 27, 2026; 2018 USDA aid was ~$12bn. Markets will focus on program design and payout timing, not just headline size. 👈 Read full analysis #Trump #Farmers #Agriculture #USDA #Aid
#USDA export sales 397,200 metric tons old crop +46% from 4 week average, 205,800 of new, #corn 1.218 million -10%, 135,000 new, #sorghum 3,900 -89%, #soybeans 668,900 +89%, 27,000 new, meal 507,600 oil 800 -74%, #beef 10,700 -19%, #pork 40,300 +23%
#FinstadWatch
BREAKING
March 25 2026, the #FinstadForCongress "brand new website" went live.
#RepFinstad touts as "proof" of supporting #Farms three bills that have NOT been enacted
#HR3283 #FARMER Act
#HR6143 #PRECISE Act
#HR7426 #USDA Express Loan Act
#FinstadFails
#TimeForChange in #MN01
The #USDA gutted a $300 million program for #minority #farmers, and their wild excuse? Something about #gazebos
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Trump administration’s views regarding #gender ideology and immigration-related policies “bear no meaningful relationship” to the purposes of many #USDA programs.
ℹ️ This year, it was DOJs Office of Information Policy (OIP)who issued FOIA guidelines. In years past, it was Office of Management and Budget (OMB) but w/this admin, it could be anyone here on out 😫 - www.justice.gov/oip/oip-guid... #NARA #DOD #DOW? #HHS #AG #USDA (take your pick)
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
#USDA
#ScrewsFarmersAgain
FU Brooke Rollins and Vought/Miller anti DEI BS
2026 ‘Dirty Dozen’ produce: Nearly 100% tested positive for pesticides, including ‘forever chemicals’
#Food #Fruit #Vegetables #Pesticides #PFAS #Health #FoodSafety #USDA #USpoli #USA #EPA #Agriculture #Water #GroceryStores #Cdnpoli #UStrade #Cancer #BirthDefects
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#USDA, #animalslaughter, #AnimalRights
Exports to South Africa: in every state...from 2023
Fresh/chilled and frozen poultry and poultry products derived from birds originating from the following zones are ineligible due to virulent Newcastle disease (vND)
#USDA, #animalslaughter, #AnimalRights
Development of a microwave stunning system for cattle
Reversible stunning, microwave animal brains for slaughter. USDA site is a MUST to get updates from. There is a long list of updates you can automatically get as they arrive. We must know everything.
Available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/sta...
#wallartforsale #wallart #gift #giftideas #science #USDA #StaphylococcusAuereus #5000x #Magnified #BacterialCells #ElectronMicroscope #MicroOrganism #SEM #Phagocytes #ARS #EMU
The coalition assert that USDA has threatened harsh penalties if states do not comply with the agency’s vague and expansive funding conditions relating to immigration, DEI and gender identity, which are unrelated to the purpose of USDA funding. #vtlaw #USDA
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#USDA export inspections #corn 1.700 million metric tons #sorghum 182,179 #soybeans 1.102 million #wheat 458,411
Tribal leaders are warning USDA’s relocation plan could break trust, drain expertise, and disrupt services to Native communities. #USDA says it will improve access, but tribes say the impact could be serious. via Eric Katz