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If you’re thinking about cutting starter fertilizer this year because of surging costs, Ken Ferrie has three words of advice: Don’t do it.

With the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, farmers should consider revenue protection crop insurance at a high level, according to agricultural economists on the University of Illinois farmdoc website.

The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.

USDA unexpectedly raises wheat stocks

In the March World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, USDA made a deeper cut than expected to global soybean production.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture employee was paid to allow tick infested and diseased cattle to enter the country, according to an indictment filed in a Laredo federal court last week.

2022 ASA Conservation Legacy Awards

Oil prices are expected to increase to an average of $117 per barrel for March, up $20 from its February average, EIA said in its Short-Term Energy Outlook.

“Before the war with Ukraine, the President encouraged Russia to produce more oil to help us lower the price at the pump,” says U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS). “That’s so hypocritical.”

Grain and cotton prices will likely continue to push higher, Goldman Sachs said in a note to investors and reported by Bloomberg.