September's WASDE lifted projected corn revenue to $857 an acre and soybeans to $634, but with fertiliser at a record $40 billion, fuel at $22 billion and interest at $34 billion after the Strait of Hormuz closure, AFBF's John Newton calculates costs up $30 an acre for corn and over $70 for rice, an
Penn State Extension educators Heidi Reed and Tara Felix weigh keeping, baling or grazing corn fodder: residue gives 90-95% soil cover, removal cuts cover by 25-80%, and a 150-bushel crop leaves about 3.5 tons of dry fodder.
USDA's crop progress report for the week to 13 September surprised analysts who expected a decline, held soybeans at 58% good-to-excellent with 6% harvested, and showed winter wheat planting at 8%, behind the five-year average of 12%.
USDA's 24th Crop Progress report of the season shows 8% of US corn and 6% of soybeans harvested by 13 September, ahead of the five-year averages, with corn rated 57% good to excellent and winter wheat planting lagging at 8%.
Market ManagementDeputy Secretary Stephen Vaden told corn and wheat growers gathered in Ogden, Iowa, on 11 September that a hundred farmers' accounts of unfair fertilizer pricing would be hard for any lawyer to explain away, and pointed them to an anonymous submission site while the Federal Trade Commission investig
December corn peaked just under $5.45 on report day and November soybeans at $13.3525 before closing lower; with August inflation at 3.4%, futures markets expect the Federal Reserve to lift its target to 3.75-4%.
An Agbiz outlook carried by FarmingPortal: local fertiliser prices were 20% above a year earlier at the end of August with Brent above US$100, tractor sales have fallen four months running to 606 units in August (down 13%), foot-and-mouth restrictions leave few export outlets if drought forces cattl
Weeks of drought and temperatures 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal have left more than a third of Kansas corn rated poor or very poor, and dryland growers say some fields will not be worth harvesting.
Nearly half of Missouri's corn was mature and 14% harvested by 6 September, well ahead of normal, while the US Drought Monitor reports expanding moderate to extreme drought in the south-central and south-west of the state and USDA forecasts a corn yield of 181 bushels an acre, four below last year.
The fungal disease tar spot has been found in corn in Randolph County, North Carolina, the state's first confirmed case, bringing to 19 the number of US states reporting it this year; a state pathologist says late-season infections rarely cut yield but scouting matters if wet weather continues.
Corn ending stocks fall to 1.567 billion bushels and the farm price rises 30 cents to $4.80; soybean prices dropped double digits on the day even as USDA raised its season-average forecast to $12; wheat was unchanged at 717 million bushels of stocks.
The September WASDE lowers the 2026/27 US corn yield by 2.2 bushels to 178.5 an acre and production by 213 million bushels to 15.8 billion, trims corn ending stocks to 1.6 billion, raises soybean output to 4.5 billion bushels with exports up 25 million, and leaves wheat unchanged.
Kansas State doctoral student Kelechi Igwe combines drone imagery, air temperature and soil moisture to estimate stomatal conductance across whole fields; his machine-learning model, about 50% accurate, flagged stressed patches that still looked green.
