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Farmers Who Don’t Trust U.S. Data Vow to Hoard Until Prices Rise

Chris F

Staff
Moderator
Location
Hammerwich
Not just us in our office who are doubting these numbers then!


American farmers in disbelief over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s relatively lofty projections for crop production are vowing to put off harvest-time sales until prices recover from recent lows.

Corn futures that surged mid-year as record rains interrupted U.S. planting have slumped back to where they started thanks largely to government yield estimates that indicate crops stood up to the weather better than feared. The next batch of USDA numbers will be released Thursday at noon in Washington.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Reading a book about food aid and how America basically decides who goes into famin. The USA farm lobby is ridiculously powerful and some of what goes on is quite frightening
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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