Jeff Cecil steps into the top role with a mission to integrate cutting-edge technologies and accelerate innovation as farmers navigate economic headwinds and volatile markets.

As we traveled and talked, we got to know each other. We were a diverse group, but we discovered common interests and struggles involving everything from weather and pests to technology access and the frustration of regulations that make more sense beneath the fluorescent lights of air-conditioned offices in capital cities than they do to the men and women who work outside and grow food.

Five years after her late brother, Levi, won grand champion, 12-year-old Lynnox Tysinger honored his memory with an emotional victory in the exact same show ring, leaning on the family’s rule to “just keep driving.”

A recent Georgia retirement sale highlights how fierce competition for well-kept, pre-DEF tractors commands top dollar, transcending pre-pandemic geographic price gaps.

Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group, says it doesn’t matter whether farmers believe the USDA report or not because it’s what the market is trading.

Brian Grete with Commstock Investments says a corn yield decrease was built in ahead of the report with average trade guesses .7 bu. lower than September. This is the largest October yield increase back to 2004.