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Commodity Classic Corn and Soybean Outlook

Commodity Classic Update News Reporter With your Southeast Regional Ag Report, I'm Trevor Williams. Commodity Classic kicked off on Tuesday of this week. The highly popular conference, which focuses mainly on soybean related info, also covers other row crops like cotton and corn. While Soybean production might not be a primary focus of the southern states, like cotton and peanuts, soybeans still play a major role in the economic impact agriculture has across Alabama, Georiga, and Florida. Like most conferences in the COVID-19 world, this event is being held online, where attendee...

Pierre, SD, USA / DRGNews Mar 5, 2021 10:17 AM The Commodity Classic trade show in partnership with the National Association of Farm Broadcasting has produced a program called “Mental Health on the Farm.” Mental health practitioner Ted Matthews says stress is normal for farmers. “ Every farmer has stress. It’s just a matter of how they handle it. And, how much can you handle, well, you don’t want to find out at the end how much you can handle, you want to you want to accept the fact that it’s stressful and start looking at what can I do to lower that stress right away. Because the...

OMAHA (DTN) — How to respond to pressure for agriculture to sequester carbon and reduce emissions is a theme running through discussions during the online Commodity Classic this week. During the opening session of Commodity Classic, leaders of the major commodity groups offered their takes on agriculture’s moves to focus more on climate change, as well as the Biden administration’s drive to lower greenhouse-gas emissions across the economy. Commodity Classic, which is virtual this year, is led by groups for farmers who grow corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum, as well as the equipment man...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke Friday in the closing general session to participants in the virtual Commodity Classic event. At least some aid programs for producers were frozen for review when President Joe Biden took office. Vilsack, who was confirmed last week, said the department continues looking at those programs while also waiting for Congress to pass the latest national aid package being debated now.