Corteva relaunches focused on crop protection and Vylor becomes a separate seed and genetics company; Vylor shares closed their first day at $67.74, up 2.64 percent.
AgribusinessAbout $11 billion in direct assistance, $10 billion for economic losses and $1.1 billion for winter freeze damage, is being pushed into a defense spending package, but payments could take months.
AgribusinessWith Congress on a month-long campaign recess and the last extension expired, the Senate agriculture chairman says the farm bill may not pass; a dispute over SNAP penalties remains a sticking point.
CropsPetitions for nonregulated status cover MON 96012, tolerant to glyphosate, glufosinate, dicamba and HPPD- and PPO-inhibiting herbicides, and MON 89151, which carries three Bt insect-resistance proteins.
In his Kay's Cuts column for Beef Central, analyst Steve Kay says cash cattle prices fell 15 percent from June while packers regained margins, and that an immigration operation in Kansas cut a week's slaughter sharply.
AgribusinessHouse Agriculture Committee chairman Glenn Thompson told reporters at World Dairy Expo that the Senate's bill matches the House on 11 of 12 titles, and that diesel costs and a legal, year-round workforce dominate dairy farmers' concerns.
EnvironmentMinnesota's October Weed of the Month is autumn olive, a restricted noxious shrub whose single plant can bear about 60,000 fruits a year and which raises soil nitrogen, crowding out prairie species.
LivestockDairy farmers can choose coverage from $4.00 to $9.50 per hundredweight; the programme, reauthorised through 2031, now covers six million pounds at Tier 1 and offers multi-year contracts at a 25 percent premium discount.
CropsUSDA data show 528 million bushels of corn used for alcohol and other products and 210 million bushels of soybeans crushed in August, both up on a year earlier.
CropsCover crops cost $42 to $120 an acre to establish, but South Dakota research found grazing them returned $17.23 an acre in the first year and $43.61 in the second, and EQIP can cover up to 75 percent of costs.
LivestockThe Dairy Margin Coverage margin fell 95 cents to $9.93 per hundredweight in July and is projected below the $9.50 payment trigger from September to December as feed costs head toward $12.
CropsWith only 3 percent of Iowa's soybeans harvested by 27 September against a 17 percent average, processors brought in beans by rail and Bunge's Council Bluffs plant bid $1 over futures for prompt delivery.
LivestockAn AFBF Market Intel analysis finds the US herd 2 percent smaller at 74.3 million head, yet heavier hogs keep pork output up while exports soften, cold stocks rise 12 percent and feed costs are set to climb.
