Monday
President Trump visits farmer-owned Flavor 1st Growers and Packers, a participant in the administration’s $3-billion Farmers to Families Food Box giveaway program, 1 p.m. ET, Mills River, North Carolina. The president is expected to watch workers pack boxes and load them onto refrigerated trucks for delivery. “For us, this is not a political event,” owner Brian Rose told the Asheville Citizen News. Rose said the visit would highlight the work of farmers and the impact the pandemic is having on their income. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is expected to accompany the president.
U.S. Soybean Export Council and Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance hold U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange and Specialty Grains Conference online, through Thursday.
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology releases issue paper, “Agriculture and the microbiome,” ahead of a webinar on Tuesday. The paper will be available here.
USDA releases monthly Cold Storage report, 3 p.m. ET.
USDA issues weekly Crop Progress report, 4 p.m. ET.
Tuesday
USDA releases monthly Food Price Outlook, noon ET. At present, grocery prices are forecast to rise by a larger-than-usual 3 percent this year and revert to a 1.5-percent increase in 2021. Over the past 20 years, grocery prices rose by an average 2 percent a year.
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology holds webinar on its new issue paper, “Agriculture and the microbiome,” 1 p.m. ET. The report will be available on the CAST website on Monday. To register for the webinar, click here.
Farm Journal holds “holds Covid-conscious” Field Days farm show, through Thursday, with a virtual pavilion and a limited number of farmers allowed on farms In Iowa and Ohio to watch field demonstrations. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is scheduled to speak on Thursday.
Farmdoc Daily holds webinar, “Outlook for farmland prices and evaluation of determinants of farmland,” noon ET. For more information or to register, click here.
Global Aginvesting holds Aginvesting 2020 New York online conference, through Thursday.
USDA releases U.S. and Canadian Cattle report and U.S. and Canadian Hogs report, 3 p.m. ET.
Wednesday
Anniversary of adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920, assuring women’s suffrage. The day also is celebrated as Women’s Equality Day. The campaign for the vote began at the Seneca Falls convention — the world’s first women’s rights convention — in upstate New York in 1848.
USDA releases quarterly Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade, 3 p.m. ET. The report will make the first forecast of exports in the fiscal year opening on Oct. 1 and update the estimate of exports this fiscal year. The current estimate, $136.5 billion, is a marginal increase from fiscal 2019 but 5-percent below the levels recorded before the Sino-U.S. trade war. The new forecast will incorporate the effects of pandemic on agricultural trade.
Thursday
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks to the online Field Days farm show, 4:30 p.m. ET.
Farmdoc Daily holds a webinar, “Where are we at financially on Illinois farms,” noon ET. For more information or to register, click here.
International Grains Council releases monthly Grain Market Report, London.
Friday
USDA releases monthly Agricultural Prices report, 3 p.m. ET.