Agribusiness Update for Wednesday 09/04/13

This is the Agribusiness Update...I'm Greg Martin... The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation has announced interest rates for September 2013. The CCC borrowing rate-based charge for September 2013 is 0.125 percent, unchanged from 0.125 percent in August 2013. The interest rate for commodity and marketing assistance loans disbursed during September 2013 is 1.125 percent, unchanged from 1.125 percent in August 2013. Forestry experts at WSU are offering funding and educational workshops to help eastern Washington residents sustain small forests that are less susceptible to fire, insects, and disease. The "For Healthy Forests, Every Acre Matters" workshops mark a transition for extension by targeting information not only to their traditional forestland owning audience but to landowners with less than 10 acres forestland as well. DTN introduces its Ag Weather Station, a field-based weather station that not only monitors real-time weather conditions, but in an industry first, also provides highly-localized forecasts for the surrounding area. That's today's Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network.