World Ag Outlook Board

USDA Chief Economist Robert Johansson is on the move. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced this week Johansson will leave USDA to become Associate Director of Economics and Policy Analysis for the American Sugar Alliance at the end of January ...

American wheat growers continue to see prices above last season, but will that continue much longer? USDA's Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski,  said one source of higher prices is lower projected wheat stock.  "Stocks are getting, you know, for wheat, relatively tight. There's ...

The USDA is forecasting a reduction of volatility for the dairy industry, and a return to normalcy next year. World Ag Outlook Board Chair Mark Jekanowski said the dairy industry, has suffered a lot of volatility this year. It started he noted with the large scale lock down, then some re-opening of food service, food service industry closing again, and then uncertainty about schools and colleges

Mark Jekanowski recently broke down the latest USDA crop report. "And October's a little bit unique because we also incorporate the whole traunch of information that we got on September 30th and that's the grain stocks report and the small gain summary ...

The most recent World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report for October, better known as the WASDE, includes information from two places: USDA's Crop Production Report and Greens's reports that came out September 30th. You know in most cases we're looking a tighter supplies ...

According to World Agricultural Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski, American dairy producers have increased milk per cow. And in response, the USDA has increased milk production forecasts for both the current year 2020 and for year 2021 ...

Milk per cow pretty strong, nationwide, according to USDA Outlook Chairman Mark Jekanowski. The latest USDA Milk Production Report puts July's national milk per cow averaging 1,994 pounds; 21 pounds higher than July of last year. The total production for this July is 18 ...

The beef industry is on it's way to getting back to normal. After plant closures and slow downs this spring, USDA Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski said slaughter capacity is approaching pre COVID levels. "There is still however a backlog of cattle that would have been slaughtered in March or April that continues to hang over market today although the industry has been working through

Even though American wheat growers will likely see a 4 % year over year drop in the crop size, those growers are still likely to see a cut in average prices because they're driven heavily by international supplies. USDA's Outlook Board Chairman, Mark Jekanowski, said that the world wheat supplies are likely to be about 2% larger this year than last ...

The USDA has raised its estimates of beef, pork, and broiler production. "Basically what we're looking at here for both 2020 and this carries forward in to 2021 as well is just the fact that we are moving toward more of a normalized slaughter/capacity slaughter volume," said World Outlook Board Chair, Mark Jekanowski ...