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“It’s sickening what the government can get away with,” say David and Debbie Ross. “We’ve done nothing wrong and we want a jury of our peers to hear the evidence. All of it.”
You take care of your land and livestock—don’t forget to take care of yourself.
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.
Who owns the Heartland? New data reveals more than half of principal landlords having never farmed and a third now aged 75 or older.
PIC’s Dan Hamilton shares his raw, inspiring story of losing his wife during childbirth and how the resilience of the agricultural community helped him find hope again.
Teresa McQueen, corporate counsel for Western Growers Association, shares best practices for reducing turnover, elevating company culture and becoming an employer of choice.
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.
“The value of drones on the farm, as high as it is today,” says Russell Hedrick, “will soon go up to levels not even imagined yet.”
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 mile from home, our world shattered. We survived the wreckage, but it made one thing clear: Stop pushing pause and finalize your farm succession plan today. Your legacy depends on it.
One of the two major domestic phosphate fertilizer suppliers says the duties should be dropped.
“If you think they don’t abuse small businesses, then my story says otherwise,” says J.P. Brooks. “They make sure we own nothing.”
Consolidation risk is not limited to smaller operations. Succession gaps, management transitions and strategic exits are driving consolidation regardless of size.
PI AgSciences aims to bring to market a new mode of action in row crops and specialty crops.
“We’re on a one-way street,” says Kenneth Graves. “I don’t want to just go along and pretend.”
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
As Pioneer marks 100 years, leaders say gene editing and advanced data tools are poised to drive the next leap in corn yield, building on a century of gains from hybrids, biotech and management strides by farmers.
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.
From cyberattacks to succession, top producers share how they turned high-stakes crises into strategic growth. Discover how balancing data with values and peer relationships can transform agricultural risk.
Scales of Injustice? Jake Molieri faces ruin after officials clamped down on his snake aversion business.
The way you show up for your team on the farm shapes how work gets done and the kind of environment your crew experiences every day.
The Neumillers, an Illinois potato farm family, share a 70-year legacy of farming, family and passing the torch to the next generation.
The executive order outlines why and how USDA will ensure adequate supplies of elemental phosphates and glyphosate herbicides.
From rethinking plant populations and fertility to SCO/ECO coverage, the two high-yield farmers share their plans for managing ongoing volatility.
Almost two years ago, then-new CEO Bill Anderson said it was his goal to have the legal liabilities “under control” by 2026.
Ezra and Eli Lane discovered a hoard of nine corn whiskey jugs buried for roughly 150 years, with the prize worth several thousand dollars.
Putting off letting go of the wrong employee often makes problems harder to fix later.