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Growers are grappling with a second consecutive year of waning demand and no home for their grapes. The issue is complex with non-tariff trade barriers hitting the wine industry especially hard and a flood of imports that are creating cheap wine with which U.S. grape growers can’t compete.

Farmers can make a poor planting scenario better by teaching their planter how to dance across fields. The practice is particularly helpful in wet soils.

Vince Boddicker, Farmers Trading Company, says grain and cattle markets saw selling Monday in tandem with the collapse in outside markets.

High winds have posed plenty of problems for farmers trying to spray, and even plant, this spring. NOAA says it’s one of the windiest starts to the season on record, but the bigger question is how long will it last?

Outside markets are under pressure to start the week, but grain and livestock markets are holding their own yet again. Focus shifts to weekly crop progress reports and ever-changing weather forecasts.

Brad Kooima, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says grains lose early strength running into chart resistance. While cattle also started higher with the sharply higher cash trade Thursday but faded.

Learn the key management tactics that can help reduce the impact of lambsquarters and marestail this season.

Agriculture requires adaptation—but it would be easier and better if farmers like me could gain access to the latest technologies. Science offers them, but my government prohibits them.

Jon Scheve discusses how often record yields happen in the U.S. and the likelihood it will happen again in 2025.

On a recent trade mission to Vietnam, South Dakota farmers found out the tariffs being proposed by the Trump administration are a huge concern for exporters.