Scouts on Day 2 of the Wheat Quality Council's 2026 Hard Winter Wheat Tour
found many fields where the tolls of drought, freeze and disease had led to
crop abandonment. The weighted average yield for the day was 39.3 bpa.
4^Winter Wheat Tour Day 2 Yields 39.3 BPA
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to allow
for permanent year-round E15 sales, also to include reforms to small-refinery
exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
BYear-Round E15 Bill Passes House
Prices of all eight major fertilizers were higher in the first full week
of May 2026 compared to a month earlier. However, only one fertilizer was
significantly higher, which DTN designates as anything 5% or more. The
remaining seven nutrients were just slightly more expensive.
7^DTN Retail Fertilizer Trends
Farmers highlighted their frustrations over fertilizer price moves, while
senators drilled into questions over price reporting and expanding fertilizer
supplies during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Tuesday. At least one
witness called on Congress to consider more aid relief for producers to deal
with the price impacts caused by the war in Iran.
FHow Does Congress Deal With Fertilizer?
COVID-19, remote work and demographic shifts ended decades of population
decline in rural America.
BRural Resilience - 2
