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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.

Latest Stories
Who owns the Heartland? New data reveals more than half of principal landlords having never farmed and a third now aged 75 or older.
The market appears to be firm, but high quality farm land sets itself apart from medium or low quality.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” has fundamentally changed crop insurance. Here is how to capture the new ECO and SCO opportunities before time runs out.
Farmers prepare for a 4% to 6% increase in chemical budgets as trade duties on key active ingredients set a new price floor.
Ambassador Julie Callahan outlines a transactional approach to global trade, targeting market access and regulatory reform
One of the two major domestic phosphate fertilizer suppliers says the duties should be dropped.
PI AgSciences aims to bring to market a new mode of action in row crops and specialty crops.
USDA Under Secretary Luke Lindberg points to strategic deals and surging dairy, ethanol and corn exports driving the U.S. toward an ag trade surplus
A new AI-driven platform, Acre Almanac, decodes any number of years of your private farm data to help you separate environmental luck from high-impact agronomic choices.
The executive order outlines why and how USDA will ensure adequate supplies of elemental phosphates and glyphosate herbicides.