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The summer 2025 issue of Progressive Farmer marked a milestone for the magazine. It's the first time in the publication's nearly 140-year history that we have used an AI-generated image on our cover.

Lawmakers have raised concerns about closing Agricultural Research Service (ARS) laboratories in California, Delaware and Illinois. The Illinois lab includes programs focusing on soybean germplasm and corn genetics. Separately, Mexican officials also are asking the U.S. government to...

Following last week's unbelievable surge in both the fed cash cattle market and the futures complex, traders are hopeful support will allow the market to trade higher again this week.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains is slightly lower versus one week ago.

Systems have been largely disappointing in the Canadian Prairies during the last couple of weeks. More rainfall is forecast in the extended range, but can we trust that to actually occur?

Second U.S. corn rating of each year from 2000 to 2025 vs. percentage of the U.S. corn area in some form of drought D1-D4 as recorded in the U.S. Drought monitor site.

While the alleged smuggling of a fungus into the United States by two China nationals raised concerns of a potential agroterrorism plot this week, farmers have been dealing with Fusarium graminearum for decades.

With all three U.S. wheat markets displaying bottom formations, other spring wheat areas being lost to corn at a greater rate than expected this year, and drought conditions impacting spring wheat areas on both sides of the U.S. border, the Minneapolis wheat premium to Chicago...

When interest rates on long bonds rise, the U.S. dollar usually gains value. That this has stopped happening suggests foreign investors are seeing the U.S. as a riskier place to invest and are demanding even higher interest rates.

Gevo agreed to sell its Minnesota ethanol plant for $7 million while retaining assets for potential sustainable aviation fuel production, while the new owner plans to restart production.

Feeder cattle's dramatic rise to record highs is certainly cause for celebration in the short term -- and anxiety for long-term planning.

Powerful winds whipped up planting season dust across the country during the weekend, prompting a dust storm warning in Chicago, which has not seen one of such magnitude since 1934.

CNH Industrial, parent company of Case IH and New Holland, forecasts lower ag sales and income for 2025, while also announcing a moderate price increase "in the low single digit(s)."

Soil moisture is below normal in many of Brazil's safrinha corn growing areas. A drier outlook for April puts that corn crop at a higher risk of drought and damage.