company says it's responding to public-health concerns over drug-resistant bacteria. the sandwich maker says early next year it will introduce chicken and turkey raised without antibiotics across all of its roughly 27thousand u-s restaurants. the company says it plans to eventually require its pork and beef suppliers to raise antibiotic-free animals. livestock and poultry producers give antibiotics to prevent and treat disease. but food makers are facing growing pressure from consumers and some lawmakers to curb the use because of fears it creates a resistance to drugs used to fight bacteria. rabo agrifinance's don close told agday he thinks demand from u-s export markets could drive the move to antiobiotic free meat production in the u-s. for the domestic market, i would still categroize that as a vocal minority share of consumers. when we go into the global market, and certainly the one

implant issue, the antibiotic issue, the ractopamine issue, ultimiately if we take the lead australia has demonstrated, we'll probably have to be more accomodating to get the wide acceptance into china." subway is the largest u-s restaurant chain in the u-s, with its number of stores surpassing mcdonald's in 20-11. as agday first reported wednesday, the federal aviation administration plans to move forward with a plan which requires registration for all unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. . officials at the faa say uav's continue to violate airspace and interfere with fire and rescue operations. it's appointed a new task force to look into the matter. the national corn growers association says farmers are willing to comply with new drone regulations as long as they are

use a drone will do so over open cropland in rural areas, far away from airports or large population centers. bowling says drones can have an important commercial application for farmers. "the faa is really concerned about this. so they are concerned and this is going to create a registry registration requirement i think much like a fire arm registration requirement out there just so they can track who has a drone, what size it is and where we're at," the assocation for unmanned vehicle systems international estimates that agriculture will account for as much as 80 percent of all commerical u-a-s use. the regulations focus on the safe operation of a drone by someone at the controls. but what about drones operating without the "human touch"? tomorrow on agday we'll look at the fastevolving industry of o-ton-a-mous autonomous drones. in other regulatory matters, lawsuits against the epa and its "waters of the u-s" rules will not be combined into one. the panel of multi district litigation refused the epa's request to consolidate the court cases. that means nine "wotus" cases will be litigated in seven different courts. an agricultural law professor from iowa state doesn't think syngenta's c-e-o is stepping

down. mike mack announced his resignation for the end of october. this move comes just months after syngenta turned down several takeover attempts by monsanto. mack was very vocal about his desire to keep syngenta operating as a separate company. in his resignation announcement, mack said he believes it's an approopriate time for the company to benefit from persepectives of a new leader, calling current market conditions challenging. we're showing the western corn belt some love in today's cropwatch. for that we turn to mike hoffman. mike! let's start off crop watch in western nebraska. dwight smith send us a picture of hard red winter wheat. he says there is plenty of moisture in the area. the crop is emerging and looking good. usda says 62 percent of nebraska's winter wheat is rated good to excellent. 83 percent of what was planted has emerged. moving over to southeast south dakota... dave hoff sent us a photo of his office chair for the day. hoff posted on twitter he's seeing above average yields on his farm but not recordbreaking for now. according to usda, 39 percent of corn and 90 percent of soybeans

system continuing to plague the southern plains lot^s of moisture in west texas some of that spreading eastward some of it^s coming north i^ll have the rest of my forecast coming up. still to come, we'll be analyzing the dairy sector and expansion of the cow herd in the midwest. how's that impacting prices? plus our beef today report shows somes a slight improvement for feed lots. and this may look like just another field trip. but these youngsters are learning how texas farmers may help pay their way through college! find out how, as we head in the country. (agday sponsored by the enlist weed control system from dow agrosciences -combining the proven control of a new 2-4-d and glyphosate. take control of

chicago. let's head to the cme floor for an update. we are seeing green across the board which is nice to see. we've been in a dead trade within the past couple of sessions. we are getting a little bit of a bid here today with corn, soybeans and wheat. looking at the corn market, we need to see a close above 3.79 and a half. if we get that, we're going to confirm a near-term bottom and potential upside towards the four dollar handle. the bottom side support comes in at 3.71 and a half. if we break that, we're heading to the low 3.60s. it has been a wild week and a past couple of months in the meat market. live cattle and feeder cattle, lean hogs, all extremely volatile. let's start looking at the cattle complex though. live cattle, feeder cattle are relatively mixed on the session but in a strong uptrend. i think most of this is on short coverings on the significant drop we saw last month. the

volume has died off which concerns me just a hair. i think there's a few more dollars to the upside both in the december live cattle as well as the november feeder cattle. this has been oliver sloup with ii trader from the floor of the cme floor of chicago. september was a slow month for the nation's dairy herd. usda's monthly dairy production report shows u-s milk production was up just four-tenths of a percent. according to our partners at dairy today, that's the slowest rate of increase all year. the total herd population shrunk a bit from august. but it's still larger than a year ago. the top dairy producing state of california continues to lose milk production. it was down three-and-a-half percent. for ten straight months, dairy production in california has dropped. meanwhile, south dakota -which has been aggressive in attracting more dairies to the state -saw a 12-percent bump higher in milk production due to a larger herd and individual cow production. michigan and wisconsin also saw an increase

(cut through the uncertainy in the markets. give mike a call at 888-747-0843) (bean harvest is wrapping up in the u.s. attention now shifts to brazil. what does it mean to bean markets? we'll talk about it in the profarmer profit briefing,

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texas and some other pockets of the southern plains. where will we see this rain next? well most of it will continue to move through texas and northward. a lot will be beneficial. some will be way too much. so let's just put the maps into motion and watch that system as it starts to move off to the north northwest. now, it's going to move through the northern plains but the moisture continuing to flow off the gulf of mexico. some of it off the pacific ocean. we will continue to put down huge amounts of rain in parts of texas. it's going to be a fairly good soaker north. for the rest of the country, southeast going to continue to drive high pressure continuing to dominate. the great lakes and ohio valley will continue to be dry as well with another quick shot of cooler air. not cold air but cooler as we head through tonight and early part of tomorrow, you can see the rain spread through the dakotas and parts of minnesota, iowa and into missouri. the heaviest

pressure will keep some pressure in the four corner region. some of that will be snow in the higher elevations. heading through the day tomorrow, you can see high pressure along the northeast gulf, keeping things dry in that area. dry up and down the eastern seaboard. the center of the country continues to be moist with that system moving through. high pressure coming in once again for the pacific northwest. here's the precipitation estimate over the past 24 horus. already huge amounts eastern new mexico and western texas and much of that area. adding on the next 36, we're going to continue to add i mean some of these areas are going to see 10 inches of rain unfortunately. some of these areas are in a severe drought which will help somewhat. you don't need it that quickly. texas under the gun there. parts of oklahoma as well. again the rain farther north is nice with most areas with an inch or two, perhaps in some of the northern plains states. there's the

temperatures. big difference from north to south along that frontal system. 45 in sue saint marie and 80s in memphis southward. low temperatures tonight going to a drop off in the great lakes and northeast. some areas getting into the upper 30s. you can see out west 40s showing up but still mild for the southern plains. high temperatures from the ohio valley southward, but chilly in the northeast and chilly in the central and northern rockies. here's why: we have that quick shot of air moving through the great lakes then the ridge comes in through the day or two. another trough coming down for sunday and monday. then look at this. a huge trough develops as we head through the second half of next week. and heading toward halloween. looks like a shot of cold air east of the rockies. that's a look across the country. now let's take a look at some local forecasts. first of all for fresno, california it's partly to mostly sunny skies. the high is around 81. memphis, tennessee is a lot of sunshine and warm. the high is

but then mostly cloudy with a high near 84 degrees. feed lots have been struggling as they try to break-even. next in our beef today report find out why they may see slight improvement. and find out how this field of texas corn will help college-bound students pay their way through school. (this is machinery pete inviting you to check out my new website -machinery pete.com -offering farmers tens of thousands of used equipment listings to search. let machinery pete help you find and

a a a b prices, a recent bounce is helping get losses to more manageable levels. according to our reporting partners at beef today, the sterling profit tracker showed feedyard losses hitting 550 dollars a head two weeks ago. this week's tracker showed more improvement, now at negative 385 dollars. i really

think we'll be okay. i'm not saying cattle feeders will be back to profitability, but i think we'll be in a range that is at least more tolerable, and i also think the outcome of the recent correction is, we've had the price spreads and margins between feeder and fed cattle so far out of balance, that this is proved the opportunity to get margins back for the margin opertors close says even with current prices, if we can see inventories rebuild, the situation is looking better for the first half of 2016. meanwhile on the pork side it appears the global pork market will continue its slow recovery in the fourth quarter. economists at rabo-bank say the strong u-s dollar, against foreign currency, impacted exports. rabo-bank says there is a clearly visible mismatch between supply and demand across the globe. rabobank says the

importing countries, and how that will impact trade. meanwhile the u-s international trade commission ruled that mexico was unfairly dumping sugar on u-s markets under-cutting prices by u-s producers. the investigators say mexico was selling its sugar at less than 60percent of fair market value. the i-t-c says mexico heavily subsidizes sugar for its growers. as part of the ruling, mexico has agreed to limit its exports to this country. it will also adhere to minimum prices set by the united states. the international trade commission says these agreements will remain in effect until 2019. up next texas school kids find out how texas farmers will eventually help pay their way through college. in the country

college is expensive. the rising cost is a concern for students and parents. one school system in the texas panhandle is doing something to help. ed wolf with the texas farm bureau tells us how. what does corn have to do with college? for kids at gruver isdoeverything. the money made from this field helps every child at this small panhandle school further their education. "each year we will grow about 410 acres of corn on it. we'll harvest it. and a lot of donations go in. the proceeds go toward scholarships for graduates of gruver high school." it all started with karl nelsen. he farmed this land about 15 miles south of the oklahoma panhandle. but he didn't have anyone to pass it down to. so he gave it to the school. the district leased the land to local farmers for years, but thought they could do more.

four years ago the gruver farm scholarship foundation was formed. "our old superintendent david teal i was sitting at a junior high football game watching my son and he came up to me and spilled it out and said, 'what do you think?' and i said, 'let's do it!' we thought to get it off the ground it might take a few of us but now its grown to where everyone wants a piece of the action. its really neat." it is truly a community effort. a group of about 10 farmers help care for the field day to day. and even more pitch in when it's time to plant & harvest. plus companies and individuals donate seed, fertilizer, tractors and more. saving about $600 an acre. so more money goes to help a student. "this year we started a thing where people can donate a bag of seed. if you don't have a tractor a sprayer or a combine you can still be a part of it and feel like your really doing something to help these kids." every single student receives receive enough money to help with up to 8 semesters of college. how much they get is ultimately up to them. "there is a merit system set up. it's

if you're in any organizations you earn points. if you're in athletics, ffa, fccla, the more you're involved at our school the more points you earn." on the day of harvest, pre-k through 4th graders come out to learn more about agriculture, crawl on a combine and get an ear of corn. knowing one day they'll receive the fruits of this harvest. this year's graduating class is the first to receive the scholarship money. parents and students are overwhelmed. "it started our freshman year i think. yeah we're the first graduating seniors to get this benefit. i think it's really amazing that our community can just come together and provide us an opportunity to go to college." gruver is like a family. and they're helping their own. every ear of corn is an investment in one of the town's children. allowing them the chance to live out their dreams. with the texas farm bureau, ed wolff, gruver ) that's all the time we have this morning. we're glad you tuned

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