“We’re only 15 days into this. It feels like a year, right?” says Matt Clark, senior rural economy analyst. “I catch myself feeling very overwhelmed by the news flow, a lot has happened in 15 days.”

Iowa farmers say a foliar fungicide application can add more bushels per acre by preventing losses to disease pressure and minimizing the impact of environmental factors, such as heat stress and drought.

David Cogen partnered with John Deere during the 2024 growing season to till, plant, spray and harvest a small field at Deere’s Boundurant, Iowa, test farm. In the process, he says he learned a lot about farming and how difficult it truly is.

Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says live and feeder cattle futures closed strong on Thursday and for the week, pushed by cash. While new crop corn and soybeans gained as the market transitions from focusing on demand, to focusing on supply.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) bluntly stated, “There will be no farm bill if SNAP is gutted.”

On average, ag aviation makes at least one application to approximately 127 million crop acres, or one-third of the cropland in the U.S.