and by mycogen seeds. visit acres of possibility.com to discover the potential of mycogen seeds. agday-brought to you by the dependable, long lasting chevy silverado. and by mycogen seeds. visit acres of possibility.com to discover the potential of mycogen seeds. good morning i'm clinton griffiths. one of the world's largest markets may get even bigger in the next decade. china rolling back it's one child policy. the rulers of the communist country deciding to allow couples to have two children. leaders implemented the one-child directive back in the late 19-70's. the party worried about future growth and making sure it has the workforce for the first time in at least two decades last year as growth slowed. more people will mean more demand for food. shares of danone, one of the world's biggest producers of baby formula, rose as much as 3 percent to the highest since april on the news. analysts say it will like take more time before commodities feel the impact. "is it anything that's going to affect the ag markets right now? probably not today or next week or next year. but five

and by mycogen seeds. visit acres of possibility.com to discover the potential of mycogen seeds. good morning i'm clinton griffiths. the world's biggest consumer of pork could jumpstart demand from u.s. producers..especially on a heels of an annoucement to restart shipments from some major u.s. facilities. china says it will resume imports of the meat from 14 u.s. plants and cold storage houses. the country halted pork exports from the facilities more than a year ago after fiinding traces of ractopamine--a growth promoter that's banned in china. usda says the impacted businesses--that participate in one of its ractopamine control programs---will soon be able to resume exports. these 14 plants make up about half of all u.s. pork processing capcity. rabobank agrifinance economist don close says despite the

and by mycogen potential of mycogen seeds. good morning i'm clinton griffiths. as congress looks for ways to get a budget deal in place before next week's deadline, it appears crop insurance funding could face some cuts. house republican leaders say there's a deal on the table for a two-year budget deal, which would help avert a government shutdown. but it needs the backing of democrats. out-going house speaker john boehner says it's not perfect, but there's no reason anyone should vote against it. in a town that isn't known for a lot of bipartisanship, you gonna see bricks flying for those that don't like the fact that there's a bipartisan agreement, but there is. it's a solid agreement. but farm groups -like national association of wheat growers have expressed concern. they say the proposed deal would cut three billion dollars in crop insurance support. they oppose any notion to re-open the

and by mycogen seeds. visit acres of possibility.com to discover the potential of mycogen seeds.> good morning i'm clinton griffiths. many farmers are harvesting a bumper crop in the western corn belt this fall. but can they get it to market? they're quick to remember the disaster they faced in 2014 as the shortage of railcars, locomotives and personnel resulted in severely depressed cash grain prices with a widening of basis levels. a year later, are railroads prepared to handle another big crop in the region? agday's michelle rook has the answer. last year's rail crisis in the western corn belt hit farmers hard, costing them millions of dollars. however, a lot has changed in a year... "you know there certainly hasn't been the delays that there was the previous year, so much improved on that, much better service." "they don't have to wait any time to get cars and actually the rates are a little bit cheaper. so it's a pretty good deal because the cost per car is down." so what helped break the logjam? part

farm report- brought to you by mycogen seeds. growing corn and soybeans is about more than just your field. it's what you were meant to do. visit acresofpossibility to discover the potential of mycogen seeds." e backo u.s. f table with me this week is mike north of commodity risk management group, and ted seifried of zaner ag. heard some basis kind of changing, and more attractive in some areas. so, ted, we'll start with you. if we are seeing basis improving how can some of these farmers use that to their advantage right now? >> yeah, so i like the idea of locking in basis. not pricing, but locking in basis right now for further on out. i think that's great. i think basis might be a little fragile right here because as we get to the tail end of this harvest storage is filling up very quickly. a lot of guys wanting to not price right here because of the price that we have currently, so as we start to dump more of this grain on the market, that basis might start to come down now at this point because we really haven't gotten that o

farm report is brought ot you by mycogen seeds. growing corn and soyebans is about more than just your yield. it's what you were meant to do. visit acresofpossibility.com to port. alan bruglar o marketing. brian doherty of stewart peterson. let's first talk about this-- in china the announcement that they're moving from one children per family. how bullish is that for agricultural exports? alan? >> i think it's positive in the long term, but obviously it takes a few years to get that going, and there's some skepticism as to whether some of these single children will want to have two children of their own, but statistically what alarmed me was one of the drivers of the policies, there's actually 33 million men with no woman because under the onchild policy there was a bias towards having male children as heirs, so there's a big mismatch socially, and it's very understandable why you'd want to change that policy. obviously they're also getting older. yeah, it's a long term positive for demand because it implies so much population gro