Daily market commentary

Daily market commentary

Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror, but the selling and market caution is still lingering through most of the market complex. In the equity complex there is limited selling, but traders are acting very cautious with poor economic data on Monday. That data included the Dallas Federal Reserves manufacturing production…
What are alternative feedstuffs for cattle? 

What are alternative feedstuffs for cattle? 

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The term ‘alternative feedstuffs’ can mean a lot of different things, but in feeding cattle, it includes edibles not commonly found in the feed bunk.  K-State Research and Extension beef specialist Justin Waggoner uses soybean hay as an example. He said cattle producers don’t normally feed soybean…
Wheat shows good promise going into winter

Wheat shows good promise going into winter

The Panhandle of Nebraska experienced favorable planting conditions for its hard red winter wheat with good soil moisture. Many growers are also seeing good emergence from the mild fall.  In the recent November U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wheat Condition Report, winter wheat conditions are rated 5 percent very poor, 13…
Jury Rules that Egg Producers Conspired to Fix Prices

Jury Rules that Egg Producers Conspired to Fix Prices

An Illinois jury found that several of the country’s major egg producers conspired to limit America’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Several large food manufacturing companies in the lawsuit filed in 2011 said producers used…
Smith Statement on Dairy Announcement

Smith Statement on Dairy Announcement

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Adrian Smith, Chairman of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, released the following statement after the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement panel issued their final report on the U.S.-Canada dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation dispute: “I remain fully supportive of Ambassador Tai and Secretary Vilsack’s efforts to hold…
Amish finding a home well off the beaten path in Nebraska’s Sandhills

Amish finding a home well off the beaten path in Nebraska’s Sandhills

Turn south onto the blacktop out of this Cherry County ranch town, and the Sandhills seem to roll on for an eternity. “Wide-open spaces” aptly describes the endless prairie, where cowboys still work cattle on horseback and stargazers come to get away from city lights. You’re lucky to encounter another…