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Margy Eckelkamp

Margy Eckelkamp is the brand leader for Farm Journal’s Top Producer and The Daily Scoop, specializing in business reporting for CEO farmers and agricultural professionals. She provides actionable intelligence to help operations navigate farmland dynamics, diversified revenue streams and overall profitability. Margy’s expertise spans regulatory and EPA issues, ag retail trends and tech innovations – topics she explores in depth on The Scoop podcast. Her nuanced analysis of modern business management ensures agricultural leaders are equipped to make informed decisions in a rapidly changing economic landscape.

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Sound Agriculture adds seed treatment to its product portfolio, with nutrient use efficiency in focus.
The Evansville facility will be Wisconsin’s first large-scale soybean crush plant — processing 80 million bushels annually and lifting CHS’s total crush capacity by more than two-thirds when it opens in 2028.
USDA certification clears Farm Credit institutions to invest in the Farmers Innovation Fund — the financing arm of a network where farmers pick the startups, run the trials and hold the equity.
The monitor overseeing the court-supervised sale of 274,000 acres can begin designating winning bids as of Sept. 1.
As combines roll, Mosaic agronomist Tryston Beyrer says the fertility decisions made in the next 60 days — not next spring — will set the floor under 2027 yields.
The joint venture could “cut roughly in half” finished imports of phosphate fertilizers.
Led by Blue River Technology co-founder Jorge Heraud, the startup says it can improve fertilizer placement.
NASDA and the National Agricultural Law Center say a new project tracking both Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 filings offers a more complete view of agricultural bankruptcies — with California, Arkansas, Georgia and Iowa leading the initial dataset.
New research builds on growing state and federal scrutiny by asking what these laws could mean for land prices and productivity.
Day 3 of the Pro Farmer Crop Tour reveals low ear counts dragging down rain-weary Illinois fields, while Western Iowa corn flashes standout potential despite rising SDS and brown stem rot in soybeans.