Mark Jekanowski

So far during this current outbreak of avian influenza, the nation's broiler flocks had been affected far less than during the last big outbreak in 2015. "But that story's a little bit different if you focus on turkeys," noted USDA  Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski. Wh ...

So far this year, US dairies have produced little less milk than they did by this time in 2021. That drop comes on fewer cows as well. The latest USDA milk production report putting April's milk output at 19.2 billion pounds, just about 1% less than April a year ago ...

Another year of lower beef production, that's what USDA analysts are expecting for 2023. USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski said drought, reduced forage supplies and very high livestock feed prices are pushing cattle producers to take more cattle off pastures, sending them earlier than normal to feed lots and to slaughter ...

USDA is forecasting production of all wheat for this upcoming marketing year to be up from this past season but only by 83 million bushels, at a bit over 1.7 billion. Wheat growers planted almost 47.5 million acres, but the Midwest drought has been relentless, and USDA now projects growers will only get a crop off of maybe 37 million ...

"When it comes to the global supplying demand balance sheet, things there are a little bit more interesting," USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski recently said, acknowledging the impacts of the Ukrainian conflict on wheat trade ...

For the meat trade picture, USDA's March WASDE report raised it's beef export forecast by 30 million pounds to 3.3 billion pounds. "That really just reflects observed data," said World Ag Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski. "So, updating the data based on the latest numbers from January and we saw a little bit of a bump in exports to China ...

What did the most recent WASDE says about the domestic export outlook for wheat? "We actually reduced our export forecast a bit...lowered our U.S. wheat export forecast by 10 million bushels," said World Ag Outlook Board chairman Mark Jekanowski ...

With dairy, one story in USDA's March WASDE report is record high prices. "The all milk price was raised $1.50 per hundred weight to $25.05 per hundred weight, and that would be a new record compared to the previous record, which was achieved in 2014," noted World Agriculture Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski calls the increase significant ...

When looking at the beef cattle business, USDA Outlook Chairman Mark Jekanowski expects a tightening of the U.S. cattle supply for the rest of this year. He noted the industry is in the midst of a decline in cattle numbers that will lead to beef production dropping by well over a half billion pounds compared to 2021's numbers ...

For this year, USDA Outlook Board Chairman Mark Jekanowski said the nation's dairy market could be summed up as "strong dairy product demand and relatively slow production growth." Jekanowski said when looking on the milk production side, it looks like the dairy herd size is shrinking a bit ...