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As USDA prepares to post its June 30 planted acreage report, the trade expects U.S. acres to increase. Farmers from Michigan to Mississippi weigh in on how much their planting plans did or didn’t change since March.
AgriTalk’s Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer discuss slow downs in pork processing, the senate meeting on cattle market transparency, the bipartisan agreement on an infrastructure bill and more.
Farm Journal Field Days is a combination of virtual and live programming to take place Aug. 23–27. Here’s an overview of the fun ahead.
CRP acres often follow market forces, according to research from Farmer Mac. As such, today’s high cash grain prices may dissuade producers from enrolling acreage in CRP programs.
Areas of the Corn Belt in need of moisture are finally seeing rain this week, but it came with severe crop damage to portions of Iowa after hail wiped out some farm fields this week.
After months of negotiations, President Biden and announced Thursday a deal was reached on an infrastructure spending plan. The news came after a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators Thursday.
A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a part of the Biden administration’s federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts to farmers of color.
Meteorologist Matt Engelbrecht has the latest on several days of rainfall expected in the Midwest.
Brazil’s worst water crisis in almost a century will impact river navigation and make transportation of goods more expensive in the world’s largest exporter of commodities ranging from soybeans to coffee and sugar.
The United Nations issued a warning this week as world food prices are rising at their fastest pace in a decade. Global food prices have risen for 12 consecutive months and now sit at their highest level since 2011.