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Russia announces export bans

Volatility is here to stay in the grain markets — but so could higher prices.

Price rationing could last at least 15 months, or until the 2023 South American soybean crop is seen as a record.

Grain producers enter a third pandemic-era planting season with some traditional and new risks ahead, highlighting the need for risk management tools.

Russia will provide farmers with short-term loans with preferential rates worth over 160 billion rubles to ensure they have access to the inputs for a successful planting season, according to Prime Minister Mishustin.

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.