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The push for more solar energy projects across the U.S. is intersecting with agriculture, and as farmland has become a key target for projects in the Midwest, it’s creating some eye-popping offers.
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.
At 22 years old, Emma decided the college life wasn’t for her. She dropped out and decided to become a farmhand. With each adventure comes lessons she shares on her “Ag With Emma” social media accounts.
Input costs are up $15 billion since February, diesel is roughly double and credit demand at Land O’Lakes’ financing business is already surging for next season, Beth Ford says.
Growers are locking in inputs earlier, paying on terms that run past harvest, and treating credit as part of the agronomic plan instead of a last-minute add-on.
“Look no further than Grain Belt Express if you want to see the fall of private property rights, the power of big business, and the political rot of eminent domain,” contends Kevin Reed.
Starting this fall, FBN’s Norm will surface daily, farm-specific insights, and by spring it aims to act on them, with Google supplying the AI models.
Drought forced Kentucky farmer Quint Pottinger to cut costs. His answer: a driverless retrofit kit, a smaller tractor and an 8-row planter that now plant his 2,000 acres of row crops on their own.
Corteva will pay $35 million to 12 states and accept 10 years of limits on distributor rebates that the FTC says kept cheaper generic pesticides away from farmers. The case against Syngenta continues.
One Minnesota family is breaking with tradition and reserving fall fieldwork for acres where it can make the biggest contribution.
Companies that take the wrong approach in developing an effective tool are likely to flunk on the farm. Here’s what they’re missing.
“Our story should scare people to the core, because it’s one of the biggest assaults on freedom and the Constitution that you’ll never hear the plain facts about,” says Steve Porter.
Kess Berg of Advanced Agrilytics says one of the solutions is connecting better with your existing data to identify what’s working well and where simple management changes could boost returns.
Joe Marino is a canary in a coalmine: “I don’t want this to ever, ever happen to another farmer or small business owner or American.”
Matt and Janna Splitter grew their farm by investing in people. Now the test is whether the farm can run without them — and which acres are worth keeping.
New tax rules could let farmers who sell land defer, reduce and even wipe out capital gains tax starting Jan. 1, 2027.
Two Midwest farmers share how ongoing cost pressures are reshaping their approach to harvest and planning for 2027.
Vision without a written plan is just a daydream. Here’s why putting your goals on paper, and doing the math, changes everything.
Tyler and Wendy Chambers have spent almost $300,000 in regulatory tape, yet the state has added a remarkable demand: Relinquish 44 acres or never build.
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.
People, insurance and having a plan in place are easy to overlook, but they can have a big impact when the unexpected happens.
New rule could allow qualifying LLCs and S corporations to stack payment limits by actively engaged owner. Here’s what farmers need to know — and what to do before the deadline.
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.
Government payments, insurance and regenerative incentives are worth about $0.52 per bushel on a 220-bu farm. Add them to a $5.49 December board and the marketing math changes — if you know your numbers line by line.
The monitor overseeing the court-supervised sale of 274,000 acres can begin designating winning bids as of Sept. 1.
Enemy of the state? What is Julie Burgod’s alleged crime?
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.
New research builds on growing state and federal scrutiny by asking what these laws could mean for land prices and productivity.