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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
The six-month “Field-to-Freight” pilot puts five Class 8 trucks to work hauling parts on fuel refined from soybeans and distillers corn oil.
The southern rust outbreak everyone prepared for never arrived, but late-season rots and unexpected tar spot pressure kept growers on their toes. Two Extension pathologists share why this season’s biggest lesson is learning to adapt, not react.
After Calley Means alleges White House corruption on high-profile podcasts, commodity leaders urge Washington to choose peer-reviewed science over soundbites.
For swine showmen Landry Mabry and Tyse Buck, the discipline that wins banners is the exact same grit that commands an arena of 50,000.
From “Who owns my data?” to “Who’s training on it?”
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A side-by-side comparison suggests Green Lightning may help deliver strong corn yields with less sidedress N, giving sixth-generation farmer Carson Kahler a reason to keep testing the technology.
Rigid bank lending, prolonged market troughs and institutional capital force structural shifts across family-owned orchards and farm operations
From a retrofit boom to a dual-tank rig, targeted spraying is reducing herbicide bills — turning the challenges of tender logistics and tank mixing into cleaner fields and fewer weed escapes.
Renewable Fuels Association’s Troy Bredenkamp says the push from Alabama and Louisiana to waive 2027 Renewable Fuels Standard obligations would raise gas prices, not lower them, and hurt rural America.
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A rare, late-season cut of 1.6 bu. per acre to the national corn yield dropped ending stocks to 1.758 billion bushels, while stronger export demand trimmed soybean carryout despite record yields across the Western Corn Belt.
Patrick Scates runs a service company, not a fertilizer company. His Shawneetown, Ill., terminal is targeted to go live Dec. 1 and is built to let wholesalers share the infrastructure bill.
CoBank projects the U.S. inland barge fleet shrinking about 17% by 2035 while USDA expects grain and oilseed exports to grow 9%. Operators who ship by river should plan for wider freight swings and a softer basis.
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie offers insights and counsel on how to go about making adjustments to your 2027 cropping plan.
Welcome to the undercover bust of the cockfighting Corleones.
After 30 years of no-till, Matt Moreland says regenerative ag pays through smarter inputs, fewer repairs and steadier yields. Lenders and scientists weigh in on what comes next.
A showdown is erupting in the most significantly hot property rights case in the U.S.
The 2026 midterm election results are reshaping the political landscape in Washington, and agriculture is watching closely to see what the results mean for farm policy, congressional leadership and the future of the farm bill.
From northern Illinois to Nebraska, two farmers share why they’re turning to drones to seed cover crops into standing corn. Here’s what they’ve learned about timing the rain, beating compaction and making the math work.
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Federal and state agricultural leaders point to record rainfall for the autumn spike; officials defend border port protocols and push for expanded sterile fly capacity.
In their first on-camera interview since admitting a processing error in the September USDA Crop Report data, officials clarified that the mistake was a computer weighting issue.
Farmers rate their local FSA office well but give USDA crop data low marks, and they have ideas for closing the gap.
Industry leaders say the products must deliver consistent agronomic results and measurable economic returns to earn their place in farmers’ input lineup.
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