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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.
The king of the crop world might lose ground in 2017. Weak prices combined with more appealing profits on alternative crops means corn acres could be down next year.
With the big cotton crop that’s expected next year, it’s not too early to start your marketing plan for it.
In part 1 of the 2019 bull-bear outlook you’ll find the recommendations shared by five commodity analysts. We’ll publish recommendations from four more analysts tomorrow.
While your grain marketing plan faces many headwinds, don’t be surprised when a few tailwinds provide opportunities for you to capture profits.
Understand your farm’s legal risks of disgruntled neighbors.
Senator Chuck Grassley’s record streak of not missing a vote has ended due to possible COVID-19 exposure.
A new training center opened in Kansas City, Missouri will allow both the dairy and food industries a place to hone their technical skills.
The White House is moving forward in the “race to 5G” and is also investing more money into rural broadband, helping better connect underserved areas of the country.
Drone technology is helping some farmers in North Dakota keep tabs on their livelihood like never before by giving them an aerial perspective on field conditions and crops.
To increase the speed and probability of discovering new crop protection products, Monsanto is collaborating with Atomwise.
Drainage boosts yield and impacts field operations, soil characteristics and soil health
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) announces its new Soil Health Partnership (SHP), designed to help farmers enhance soil health.
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Are you ready to go trait-less. Demand for non-GM crops opens a niche for eMerge Genetics.
Without exaggeration, every facet of agriculture is affected at some level by automation. In 2019, three significant technologies are making noise on U.S. farms.
Government and private industry will strengthen infrastructure
What to watch in the short and long term as mergers head for the finish line
It could hit 100˚F in Des Moines next Wednesday. That in and of itself is not entirely abnormal, but it does help drive home a larger point – extreme heat is descending on large areas of the Corn Belt.
The food and farming industry is worth nearly a trillion dollars to the U.S. economy in 2015, according to data collected from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). That’s 5.5% of the U.S. gross domestic product.
U.S. crop insurance indemnities are at $1.226 billion as of October 10 after having passed the $1 billion mark at the end of September, above where the totals stood for 2015 crops which was $6.280 billion, according to data from USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
During the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) convention in Phoenix earlier this week, members were told to expect another year of soft grain prices unless there’s a major disruption in outside factors, such as weather or foreign markets.
Hear from the CEO of one of the largest farmland investment firms, Farmland Partners, at this month’s Top Producer Seminar.
Ready to cash in on a new market or venture? Use this guide to make sure it’s a strategic decision.
Additional flexibility for farmers is being set in place for producers that normally use double-cropping and other changes under the federal crop insurance, according to USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Now that warm weather has arrived, everyone will start to focus on all the chores that have to be done to “gear” up for the upcoming season, including fly control.
Some farm-state lawmakers are going after situations where some ag economists at some universities are playing both sides of some issues like crop insurance, and profiting by it.
Crop insurance indemnities total $5.482 billion as of Feb. 8, 2016, up about $600 million over the past month, but still the smallest payouts since the 2010 crop year, according to Risk Management Agency (RMA) data.