Grain Marketing

This webpage is the Marketing archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.

Agronomy News, November 2024, Volume 15, Issue 8. Inside this issue: Winter Crop Production Meetings, Slug Damage Survey & CDL Grant, Tank Mixes for Postemergence Weed Control in Soybean, Stink Bugs in Cover Crops, Corn and Soybean Variety Trials, UMD TAPS: New Kind of Farmer Research, Growing Giant Miscanthus in Maryland, Evaluation of Early Maturity Soybeans, Using NDVI to Determine Nitrogen Needs, Grid Sampling for Variable Rate Lime, Ag Tech Conference, Pesticide & Nutrient Management Training Dates, Storing Mycotoxin-Affected Grain, New Corporate Transparency Act Reporting, Weather Outlook and, Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy News, August 2024, Volume 15, Issue 4. Inside this issue: Fall Forage: Playing Catch-Up, New Wildlife Management Classes & Community, Wildlife Management Webinars, Small Grain Variety Trials, Soybean Research Field Day, Reporting Tar Spot, Podworms in Soybeans, Ag Technology Conference, Summer Grazing Management, Grain Market Outlook, USDA Notice to Beneficiaries, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

Maryland enterprise budgets for 2024 are based on average yields and estimated input costs, which may vary from one farm to another. It is important to include actual farm data when completing enterprise budgets.

Ag Commodity Markets: Review and Outlook

Implications Due To The Closure of The Port of Baltimore.

Crop budgets vary greatly by operation! Prices and cost estimates are averages collected from retailers across the state. Input prices will vary by crop, management, region, varieties, and other criteria and may not be reflective of YOUR true costs.

Grain Market Summary for the Agronomy News

All eyes have been on news headlines coming from the Black Sea for the last two to three weeks since the termination of the previous agreement between Russia and Ukraine. The escalation in the war between these two nations has seen drone strikes, missile engagements, and major destruction of Black Sea ports like Odessa in Ukraine. Traders have watched these headlines and acted accordingly in the market place as the price of corn and wheat retraced previous months losses.

Organic grain production is promoted for greater potential profits with premium grain prices, improved soil health with organic inputs and fewer environmental hazards in the absence of synthetic chemical use. However, the three-year period required for organic certification is a challenging phase when transitioning farmers are learning to do without synthetic chemical manage soil fertility, weeds, diseases and pests, while not yet receiving those attractive premium prices (Delate and Cambardella, 2004). Organic grain production, if done regeneratively, may reduce environmental impacts and increase ecosystem services from agriculture. Among the latter, minimization of nutrient loss to water is especially important in Maryland, since a good deal of the nitrogen and phosphorus pollution to the Chesapeake Bay comes from agriculture (2025 Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs)). However, the change in environmental impacts due to the transition from “conventional” to organic farming could be either positive or negative (Bavec and Bavec, 2015), depending on the system of practices (inputs, soil disturbance, soil cover, etc.) utilized in the conventional and organic systems (Röös et al., 2018).