With the USDA cancelling its regularly scheduled July cattle inventory report due to budget cuts, a question that many would like to have answered is: How big is the U.S. cattle herd?. Fortunately, historical relationships between changes in prior and subsequent inventories and levels of cow slaughter in between or...

How big is the U.S. cattle herd?

Arkansas State

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. farm production expenditures report says higher input costs and lower commodity prices are threatening to shrink profits for farmers this year. The report says U.S. farms spent $481.9 billion on expenses necessary to run farming operations last year. That’s up 6.5% from 2022.

Rising costs, lower commodity prices threaten U.S. farmers’ profits

Wisconsin State

Budget constraints have caused the USDA to limit the number of reports it releases. Among these reports is the July cattle inventory report. However, there is enough historical context from which some conclusions may be drawn. Jason Franken from Western Illinois University has done the work in modeling these relationships.

Cattle Inventory Projections are Lower for 2025

December corn ended the day down 4¼¢. November soybeans closed down 23½¢. September wheat contracts closed mixed. CBOT wheat was down 8¢ at the close. KC wheat was down less than a penny. Minneapolis wheat was up less than a penny. "The corn market gave...

Soybeans close down 23¢ | Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Indiana State

Corn production is expected to be down 1% from last year at 15.1 billion bushels while soybean production is forecast to be 10% higher than 2023 at a record high 4.59 billion bushels. Average corn yield is forecast at record high 183.1 bushels per acre, up 5.8 bushels from last...

USDA Forecasting Record Corn and Soybean Yields

24/7 Wall St.

The Federal Reserve was unlikely to cut rates next week, but Wall Street anticipates a September reduction. Investors are largely expecting an easing cycle to begin, with more interest rate cuts from the Fed materializing in 2024 and 2025. Stocks recently surged on this anticipation, as investors price in what this will mean for stocks […]
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Fed Alert: If Rates Come Down, These Are 3 Stocks Are Going to Soar

Buffett sold nearly half of Berkshire's position in Apple last quarter. The combination suggests Buffett doesn't like what he sees in the market right now. What a record-setting pile of cash and Treasury bills can tell us about Buffett's expectations for the market. Warren Buffett is considered one of the...

Warren Buffett Just Sent a $277 Billion Warning to Stock Investors

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. Buying low-priced stocks can make sense in theory but in practice can prove hazardous, Susan Dziubinski, a Morningstar investment specialist, wrote in a blog post this week. On one hand, it is easier for an investor to spend relatively little...

10 Best Stocks to Buy for Less Than $10 a Share: Morningstar

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Trying to find an affordable house in Vermont or New Jersey is tough right now, but those aren’t the only states in the U.S. where home prices are on the rise.

10 States Where Home Prices Are Rising the Fastest

Washington, DC

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Alamogordo Conservative Daily

Command Sergeant Major Veronica E. Knapp was the command sergeant major of the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and U.S. Army Military District of Washington (JTF-NCR/MDW) per her official biography. However effective Tuesday she was released from command.

Command Sergeant Major Veronica E. Knapp Released from Command in D.C.

Farmland prices keep climbing, according to USDA’s Land Values Report. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, talks about what farmers are facing. Munch says, “The Department of Agriculture’s Land Values Report shows that agricultural real estate values are up five percent, or an average of...

New Report Shows Land Values at Record Levels

TheStreet

Markets end lower as investor seem to think the Fed has waited too long to cut rates. And they sold stocks hard in response.

Stock Market Today: Stocks crushed as markets see Fed rate error

Newark, NJ

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Paterson, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Jasmine McGregor, 32, and Jhenelle Lewis, 35, both of Paterson, New Jersey, have pleaded guilty to conspiring with a physician to distribute oxycodone, a powerful opioid, without legitimate medical justification. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Paterson Residents Conspired with Physician to Illegally Distribute Opioids

Oklahoma State

As Jess Bray pulled up to a 21-acre farm nestled in an eastern Oklahoma valley, she instantly got a warm feeling. “This is the place,” she thought. After attempting to buy two other properties before being outbid by cash buyers, Bray and her husband Jon began to wonder whether their dream of owning and operating their own farm would become a reality.

As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out

South Carolina State

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

Row crops ended ended lower Tuesday with soybeans making new contract lows again. Tomm Pfitzenmaier, Summit Commodity Brokerage, says soybeans suffered from report hangover as the market is still pricing in the 25% increase in ending stocks. However, soybeans also saw pressure from crop ratings remaining unchanged at 68% good...

Tomm Pfitzenmaier: Soybean Prices Crash as Crop Swells Dragging Down Corn

Denver, CO

David Heitz

More dangerous substances are entering the Denver drug supply, Harm Reduction Action Center warned in a newsletter this week. “The Iron Law of Prohibition posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases,” HRAC Executive Director Lisa Raville wrote in the newsletter. That is exactly what is happening, she said.

Dangerous substances entering Denver drug supply

No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

Colorado State

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

J. Souza

Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas, a $1.35 billion behemoth of the sea, has recently been introduced to the world since its maiden voyage on July 19th. The ship, boasting nearly 5,700 passengers and a crew of over 2,200, offers an array of amenities designed to cater to multi-generational families on shorter 3- and 4-day itineraries.

Cruise Passengers Not Happy About Feature on World's Newest Mega Ship

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Increasing pessimism about crop returns

Editor’s note: The following was written by Gary Schnitkey, Nick Paulson, Bradley Zwilling and Jim Baltz with the University of Illinois, Carl Zulauf with the Ohio...

Increasing pessimism about crop returns

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