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This article discusses what market variables are contributing to current corn market fluctuations.

In 2016, Dale Roberts began designing a DIY mower-sprayer in his farm shop, and six years later, he has a patent and a significant equipment innovation.

Each of the four M’s are verbs—action words—and they represent the actions that farmers everywhere must take as we strive for sustainable food production in the 2020s and beyond.

Corn futures ended the week near seven-month highs behind spillover support from gains in soybeans and ongoing concerns that a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine my disrupt global grain trade.

Due to negative crush margins, some soybean crushing plants in China are suspending operations, according to industry sources.

Input costs are high across the board this year. In leu of low glyphosate availability and increasing costs, whispers of an alternative have trickled down to Bayer’s research and development team.

DEVELOPING: There’s a new issue getting inputs after the only potash mine in Belarus declared a force majeure.

South America is still in the driver’s seat when it comes to commodity prices. March soybeans traded above $16 Friday, as traders will be keeping close eye on key figures coming from USDA’s Ag Outlook Forum next week.

There can be huge costs -- monetarily and in human capital -- if you don’t set up the structure of succession well, say Paul Neiffer, with CliftonLarsonAllen, and Rena Striegel, Transition Point Business Advisors.

A red zone is defined by the White House as an area with 100 or more new infections over a one-week period. The good news is the rate of new cases is dropping, says Alan Morgan, CEO, National Rural Health Association.