President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a minimum 10% tariff on at least 60 countries but laid out a range of different tariffs for countries and trading blocs, including higher tariffs on China, Japan and the European Union, for instance. Along with that, all imported automobiles will have a 25% tariff starting Thursday.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins traveled across parts of Iowa on Monday to talk with farmers and agribusiness people about what is important for them to continue to run their farms properly.
A letter from farm groups draws a fine line of supporting the president's trade goals while fearing the worst ramifications for the ag economy.
As biofuels, agriculture and petroleum groups are expected to meet at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, a group of fuel distributors have raised alarms about what increasing RFS volumes for biomass-based diesel could mean to consumers.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins spent Monday in Iowa touting investments in biofuels as a way to increase demand for farm products. Rollins acknowledged USDA is getting ready for possible trade retaliation as President Donald Trump readies his tariff announcement on Wednesday.
West Virginia developer Ron Foster has asked a federal appeals court to require a district court to apply a new jurisdictional test laid out in the Supreme Court case Sackett v. EPA. Foster has been fighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2009 to develop a 90-acre tract of land the agency said contains waters of the U.S.
USDA's March 1 (2025) Prospective Planting and quarterly Grain Stocks report held little fanfare for the corn market despite the prospective corn coming in 1.1 million acres above the Dow Jones average estimate. Wheat, on the other hand, got a boost from an all-wheat planting number that was 900,000 acres lower than expectations. Soybean acres held little in the way of surprise, estimated to be just slightly below pre-report expectations. March 1 stocks for all three ag commodities finished close to expectations.
USDA released its Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports on Monday.
Average retail prices for all eight of the major fertilizers were higher than last month during the third week of March 2025. UAN32 saw a sizeable price increase, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more.
Trimble and PTx Trimble release new positioning technology, Cummins unveils its first-ever gasoline engine, Titan announces its sales are down, and John Deere joins biofuels group Growth Energy.
