Industry News & Outlooks

September 25, 2024

“Our measurement of real per capita expenditures for fresh beef has shown positive gains for every month this year. Strong 2024 nominal (not inflation-adjusted) consumer beef

September 25, 2024

Everyone in or close to production agriculture knows that nearly all sectors have seen profitability fade in recent years, as U.S. net cash farm income has

September 6, 2024

Published four times a year, “Winescape” offers comprehensive analysis of the wine and grape markets as well as trending topics. Download current and previous issues of

August 29, 2024

By Ben Laine, Senior Dairy Analyst Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs) are set to change the way milk is priced. After receiving proposals, hearing testimony, making

August 29, 2024

The price story for beef is all about consumer demand, not supply. Ranchers have not yet begun to rebuild the U.S. beef herd, so the supply

August 8, 2024

Milk will soon be priced differently than it is today. Before the end of the year, milk producers pooled in the Federal Milk Marketing Orders (FMMOs)

August 1, 2024

By Dave Weaber, Senior Animal Protein Analyst Beef demand so far in 2024 has been nothing short of amazing. This is despite talk in the livestock

July 22, 2024

Terrain analysts dissect news topics important to agriculture and weigh their significance for the sectors relevant to our Farm Credit customers. In this issue, our analysts

July 9, 2024

By Don Close, Chief Research & Analytics Officer In my conversations with cow/calf producers over the past year, they have voiced three primary explanations or concerns

July 9, 2024

Milk production has been essentially flat for the past three years, and 2024 is on track for another year at the same level, if not less.

July 9, 2024

“Milk production has been essentially flat for the past three years, and 2024 is on track for another year at the same level, if not less.

July 5, 2024

Juiced-Up Prices After many years of low returns for processing tomato growers, the combination of higher at-home food spending during the pandemic and lower-than-typical inventory pushed

July 2, 2024

After a slow start to the year, milk prices got a welcome boost after bottoming out in April. These prices are a big improvement from earlier

June 27, 2024

Situation The 2024 new-crop corn market rode a strong run from early March through May that was partly fueled by two types of weather concerns: not

June 27, 2024

Situation Avocado demand has seen an incredible boost in the last decade. Most of this increased demand, however, has been fulfilled by a surge in imports.

June 27, 2024

Persistently tight milk supply created an opportunity for strong exports to drive prices to new heights for the year. But the new price level could be

June 27, 2024

Following a period of steady expansion in the mid-2010s, vineyard values have flattened throughout much of the North Coast in recent years. Over the past year,

June 27, 2024

Situation Carcass weights began to climb during the first quarter of 2024 as Midwest cattle feeders held cattle to replace the weight lost during severe weather

June 27, 2024

In September, I wrote a Quarterly Outlook titled “Brazil Is Cotton’s Heir Apparent” that described the merits of Brazil overtaking the U.S. as the world’s largest

June 27, 2024

Situation: The realities of “higher for longer” interest rates have significantly added to the cost to carry inventory (inputs and outputs like grains). At the same