Markets & Commodities
MARLIN CLARK
Mixed USDA news lowers grain market
March 16, 2010USDA’s March crop production report says we have the highest ending stocks of 12 years. That cannot be a good thing, comments grain merchandiser Marlin Clark.
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U.S. and China agree on reopening Chinese pork market to U.S.
March 19, 2010WASHINGTON — The United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork and pork products.
Pork trade will resume immediately once both sides finalize the export documentation.
Big market
Twenty percent of U.S. pork production was exported in 2009, and prior to H1N1 trade constraints, U.S. pork and pork variety […]
32 Ohio counties given disaster designation; Pa., W.Va. and Ky. counties also named
March 12, 2010COLUMBUS — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack has designated 10 counties in Ohio as primary agricultural natural disaster areas, due to multiple disasters including excessive rain, flooding, flash flooding, high winds, hail, freeze, and frost that occurred April 1, 2009 through July 1, 2009.
Twenty-two counties were designated as contiguous counties. In addition two counties […]
