Kentucky farmers will be receiving a crop yield survey this month from the National Ag Statistics Service.  David Knopf, director of the regional office which covers Kentucky, says the data from this questionnaire will be used as a base for the level of any farm bill program payments that might kick in due to adverse crop or market conditions.

Feldhaus has part two of the series on “Ag Alumni Roundup” activities underway this week at the UK College of Ag, Food, and Environment.  Dean, Nancy Cox, is featured discussing one ag major that many students use as a spring board to medical school. She also points to extra-curricular student competitions that serve to complement their in-class education.

A seasonal report with a roadside market operator who’s featured tomatoes at Christmas time and who now has a booming crop of mums in full bloom.  Owen County farmer David Chappell is what you’d call a “typical” Ky farmers with beef, tobacco, and row crops, but he’s added horticultural crops to his mix; and it’s working well.

An update on the latest round of Ky Ag Finance Corporation loans for ag infrastructure projects and for beginning farmers.  KAFC coordinator Bill McCloskey says some $1.6 million was made available through tobacco settlement funds to assist the ag sector with below-market loans for approved projects to boost ag development.

The first of a two-part report with Dr. Nancy Cox, Dean of the UK College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, as the school celebrates Ag Alumni Roundup week on the Lexington campus.  Cox says undergrad and graduate student numbers are strong and growing and she discusses a few of the more popular options for ag majors.

CBOT futures traded narrow ranges today with mostly lower closing prices near the day’s lows. Futures traded higher early morning but selling resumed as the huge harvest rolls on.  Following Tuesday’s limit-down move in some LC and FC contracts, cattle futures started lower this morning but bargain hunters took the market to higher closes.

CBOT futures closed higher and near the day’s highs as prices rallied steadily after posting lows early morning. November Soybeans and soybean meal futures traded to new lows not seen since last April.   Cattle futures closed sharply lower with a few contracts down the daily trading limit of $3.00 in LC and $4.50 in FC.

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