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Many Midwestern farmers still have grain left in storage from 2023, after they refused to sell a record corn crop due to low prices. Now, dry weather is accelerating this year's harvests and ...
Crop insurance policies that guarantee minimum prices for the 2024 wheat crop were set in mid-September at $7.34 a bushel for Kansas wheat, down $1.45 a bushel from last year.
Loan Rates per Unit Corn $1.95/bushel Upland cotton $0.52/pound Wheat $2.94/bushel Rice $6.50/hundredweight Peanuts $355.00/ton Soybeans $5.00/bushel Grain Sorghum $1.95/bushel Barley $1.95/bushel Oats $1.39/bushel Oilseed (sunflower, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mustard, crambe, sesame seed) $0.1009/pound
Corn is the most valuable crop in Kansas – in 2022, farmers collected $3.6 billion from corn, at $7.2 a bushel, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That’s $1.5 billion more than ...
The soybean checkoff is a congressionally-mandated assessment on soybeans, whose proceeds are used to fund soybean research and promotion efforts. The checkoff is managed by the United Soybean Board under the supervision of the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service. In 2014, the checkoff was $109.1 million. [1]
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre. Overall production of corn in the U.S. was 15.1 billion bushels for 2021.
May 20—Higher corn and soybean market prices could be a boon to local farmers with product in their silos and storage bins and could mean higher prices at the grocery store. Ty Higgins of the ...
Test weight refers to the average weight of a cereal as measured in pounds per bushel (1bu. = 8 gallons or 2150.42 cu. inches). Test weight is an important predictor of milling yield for rice and flour extraction rate for wheat. USDA’s official weight per bushel for the highest grade for major cereals and oilseeds include: wheat and soybeans ...