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Ask the Mechanic's columnist Steve Thompson tells you the best way to align the cylinders on a front-end loader and why it's not a good idea to run a tractor without a battery.

Myriad weather challenges has filled out the second season (safrinha) corn crop from start to end. As more of the damaged crop is harvested, producers in Brazil will likely welcome the end of the season and prepare for the new soybean season.

Improvements have been seen in rail movement of grain to the West Cost, although both railways remain on alert as British Columbia declares a state of emergency due to wildfires. Experts say this situation could last six to seven more weeks.

Administration medical experts continue to stress that people who have been vaccinated are protected from the rapidly spreading Delta variant of COVID-19, but people who are unvaccinated have a much greater risk of contracting the Delta variant and ending up hospitalized.

A move to strongly positive by the atmosphere portion of ENSO may indicate stressful crop conditions during late summer.

Despite back-to-back months of 5% increases in consumer prices, the Federal Reserve isn't hurrying to raise interest rates.

Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper said his group plans to ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for a rehearing of an E15 case that has thrown year-round sales into question.

Week 27 (mid-July) crop ratings for the U.S and the top 18 growing states and the 20 year average vs. how 2021 week 27 rating ranks over the past 20 years

With packers sitting on supplies for at least a month out, someone must ask "when will packers need cattle?" and "when will the cash cattle market be able to demand higher prices again?"

The year 2020 will be remembered for the pandemic, but also for the extreme hoarding of toilet paper that went on as states went into lockdown.

We have run out of chart resistance on Minneapolis September wheat. One must go back to a monthly continuation chart to see where we can go next.

While few farmers consider drought or knee-muck to be good times, from a revenue perspective, this year presents the best opportunity for profits in nearly a decade. Here are the top suggestions from a recent DTN series on ways farmers can capitalize on current markets...

Frank discussions about difficult subjects are never fun, but in the case of the looming issues around seed treatments, it's time to talk.

The SCN Coalition says that soybean fields infested with soybean cyst nematode (SCN) are at increased risk of sudden death syndrome (SDS).