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The plan requires conserving 440 million acres.

The latest U.S. Drought monitor indicates drought is gripping pastures, with 60% of the nation’s cow herd is now in some level of drought or dryness, and it’s causing cow slaughter numbers to climb.

Yield prospects for hard red winter wheat in central Kansas were above average, scouts on an annual crop tour said on Tuesday, although yield-robbing diseases, primarily stripe rust, were prevalent in some areas.

The company says it plans to help “decarbonize the farm and food value chain and enable farmers to earn additional revenue through positive climate action.”

Whether the mercury is too high or the rain gauge too low, those producers who have already put away the planter now play the waiting game. And as always, the stakes are high.

Corn prices closed in the green Tuesday, but old crop soybean prices were under pressure again. AgriTalk host Chip Flory digested Tuesday’s market action with Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain.

Meteorologist Matt Engelbrecht takes a look at one storm system that is parked right now over the South.

The Ag Credit Survey from the KC Federal Reserve shows strong profit potential for farm borrowers is helping support a second consecutive quarter of increasing farm incomes, loan repayment rates and farmland values.

Reuters reported POET is in talks with Flint Hills Resources to buy all its ethanol assets. The possible deal would increase POET’s production capacity to up to 3 billion gallons a year.