AgDay
Hosted by Haley Bickelhaupt, AgDay provides the nation’s farmers and ranchers with the latest news, weather and business headlines, and features the people and places unique to the industry and small-town America.
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Wheat was the price leader on Friday mostly on technical buying according to DuWayne Bosse with Bolt Marketing.
Tom Parker farmers corn, soybeans, and tomatoes in La Porte, Indiana. He won’t decide his crop mix this year, until he’s in the field.
NOAA and CPC issue an official El Niño watch with a 62% chance of forming by late summer. Meteorologist Drew Lerner explains why it’s coming sooner than expected, but warns the extreme forecasts may be overstated. What it could mean for global crops this year.
Auction volume is up 4.5% from late 2025, giving farmers a chance to update and right-size their equipment needs.
As farmers focus on changes to crop insurance ahead of the March 16 deadline, Ben Rand says some of the most valuable risk tools have existed for years, but there are also key changes farmers shouldn’t overlook.
The Smith family captures value from cover crops twice—first as high-quality cattle feed and then as biological fuel for no-till corn and soybeans.
Cattle futures are higher early Friday in tandem with the bounce in the equity markets and the pull back in crude oil and the energy markets according Scott Varilek of Kooima Kooima Varilek.
Who owns the Heartland? New data reveals more than half of principal landlords having never farmed and a third now aged 75 or older.
Soybeans made new highs for the move during the session. Mark Schultz with Northstar Commodity says it was partly due to the rally in crude oil and soybean oil. However, there were also some other factors that boosted prices.
New technology from Syngenta can pinpoint the microscopic pests in your fields with 90% accuracy.