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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Switching part of your acres to no-till is as simple as just parking the tillage tractor, right? Maybe not. Here are a few considerations before trying no-till for the first time.
Collecting across-the-board data is increasingly important for the sustainability and success of your business, but it doesn’t have to be a monumental task.
As an Illinois farmer, you know that long-lived farm businesses learn to thrive in an ever-changing environment.
When farmland draws a premium, you’d expect the soil to be in good shape, right? More landowners are considering fertility clauses in their farm leases to ensure tenants don’t suck the soil dry.
Biofuels groups have high hopes a Biden Administration will get the RFS back on track. But an announcement just days on the job seems to showcase a Biden Administration’s push for electric vehicles instead.
Spilled blood never dries. Roughly 175 years after the mysterious death of Jane Story Perryman, the farming matriarch rests in forgotten solitude.
What does everyone want? Tractors in good condition, with low hours, often 10 to 20 years old. Why? The price of new equipment just keeps going up every year.
A conservation plan basically means writing down how to use a farm’s natural resources in as detailed a fashion as you can.
Just days on the job, a Biden-Administration is giving a glimpse into the new administration’s priorities. How could a focus on climate and COVID recovery impact farmers and ranchers? We explore on U.S. Farm Report.
Boeing Co said on Friday it will begin delivering commercial airplanes capable of flying on 100% biofuel by the end of the decade.
The Trump and Obama administrations had very different relationships with agriculture and rural America. Will the Biden Administration learn any lessons from those two predecessors?
The D.C. Circuit Court handed the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) a win in its last battle with the Trump Administration over waivers to the Renewable Fuels Standard.
President Joe Biden’s trade team is coming together, and it looks to be stacked with individuals who were key in crafting the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Former USDA Secretary Dan Glickman calls on returning USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to be assertive on climate change policy.
The nitrogen-fixing power of soybeans is a dream for corn and other crops – but what if you could harness that power through microbes? Sound Agriculture is introducing SOURCE that claims to do just that.
What you did this past fall, what you’re doing this spring and the plans you’re making for the summer will make a huge difference in the combine at the end of the year.
“Farmers used to have to choose between legacy accounting software or applications that weren’t built specifically for farming,” says Brian Stark.
The rebuilt/retrofit factor in the used planter market has been huge the past 18 to 24 months.
As President Joe Biden took office Wednesday, one former Secretary of Agriculture thinks a Biden Administration and USDA will focus more on helping craft a farm bill that focuses on conservation.
Some farmers have one tool worth more than their grandfather’s entire tool inventory. Modern equipment is so big, it takes expensive tools to do even simple maintenance and repairs.
With three modes of action that provide corn rootworm control, Bayer’s SmartStax Pro will hit the market at a time when corn rootworm resistance is top-of-mind.
Prior to Bt technologies farmers lost $1 billion annually to CRW—in the form of chemical costs or actual yield loss. With resistance to traits on the rise, it might nibble its way back to a billion-dollar price tag.
With renewed focus on no-till and reduced tillage, how can you experience the greatest financial and positive environmental impact? Do you have to cut back on tillage every acre to maximize the benefits?
Following the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, agriculture industry leaders congratulated Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
With enthusiasm from favorable market prices at a high, many farmers are wondering if it’s time to consider corn-on-corn or soybean-on-soybeans. Ken Ferrie says important to understand the agronomic challenges of each.
Tyson Foods has agreed to pay a settlement of $221.5 million in the broiler chicken antitrust civil price-fixing lawsuit, according to filings Tuesday in federal court in Chicago.
Michigan farmer Michael Stamp was sentenced to eight years in prison this week. A federal indictment filed in 2017 accused Stamp of federal crop insurance fraud and bankruptcy fraud.
In the Trump Administration’s final hours, the EPA granted two small refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and appears to have reversed a previous denial.
In summary, the lawsuit alleges crop input manufacturers, large wholesalers and retailers have created an unfair market for farmers.