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Check out livestock expert Jeff Swensons analysis of national and state livestock reports.

Farmers across the region have made swift planting progress. In North Dakota, where planting has been particularly slow, things finally are moving in the right direction.

The House Appropriations Committee this week will takes up an unusually partisan funding bill for the USDA and FDA that highlights some major cuts to spending Republicans would like to make, even as President Joe Biden even as debt ceiling negotiations lurch toward a June deadline. 

OLYMPIA — Warmer weather and lots of sunshine in mid-May prompted a lot of farmers in the Columbia Basin to get out into the field and plant, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. “Central Washington had a great week for farming,” said the weekly Crop Progress and Condition report for the Pacific Northwest for the week ending May 14. “‘Tractors cultivated, seeded and sprayed while cattle were let out into nice spring...

Columnist Randy Martinson notes that the northern Plains continue to see slow planting progress in North Dakota while Minnesota and South Dakota have been able to catch up to their average pace.

Farm milk prices are climbing but have a ways to go to hit profitability for most U.S. dairy farms.

By Kirk Maltais --Soybeans for July delivery fell 2.6%, to $13.64 1/2 a bushel, on the Chicago Board of Trade on Tuesday, with soybeans and soy products tumbling in response to weaker-than-expected economic data out of China. --Wheat for July ... | May. 16

Persistent drought in major beef cattle production regions continues to have a significant impact on the cattle industry despite improvements in drought conditions in other parts of the country. USDA-NASS

President Joe Biden is expected to sit down again early this week with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders as they continue negotiations on increasing the debt ceiling and GOP demands for spending cuts.

Kansas farmer Adam Baldwin received half of an inch to an inch of rain this week, which “bought the corn some time,” he says. However, he adds, “we still have a very shallow moisture profile.”