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While more farmers are leaning on bank financing for 2025, others are finding it tough to stay in business. Farm banks are well-situated to support increased loan demand as capital levels and profitability grew in 2024.

The weather through much of the U.S. east of the Rockies has been active with seasonable temperatures. But a ridge developing over the South this week could be the catalyst for major changes the rest of summer.

The University of Illinois lab responsible for innovations such as short stature corn and super sweet varieties of sweet corn is in jeopardy of closure. A vital soybean seed lab is also on the proposed closure list.

The budget reconciliation bill includes a provision that will allow USDA to add 30 million acres of new base acres to farm programs. Under the changes, farmers who have planted commodity crops from 2019-2023 will get a chance to add acres to farm program base if they meet the...

CHS Inc. announced it is permanently closing its Superior, Wisconsin, grain terminal, the largest in the Port of Duluth-Superior.

Limited supplies and strong demand have been the biggest reasons why both the live cattle and feeder cattle markets have traded higher, and why for now the market will likely remain strong.

As presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to make Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services and said he'd let Kennedy "go wild on the food." And so Kennedy has.

With corn export commitments to date only being exceeded once in the last 25 years (and barely), the USDA should be increasing its export estimate again on Friday.

Biofuels groups praise EPA's "strongest-ever" RFS proposal, while urging proper handling of small-refinery exemptions to maintain the 15-billion-gallon commitment.

Soybean oil's percent contribution of the combined soybean crush value over the past 30 years along with the average and plus and minus one and two standard deviation lines.

DTN/Progressive Farmer recently talked with Trimble PTx Senior Product Manager Dinen Subramaniam about Trimble PTx's award-winning OutRun autonomous technology. Available now as an autonomous grain cart solution, Trimble PTx is adding tillage functions and AGCO-brand Fendt...

December corn on Monday is under severe pressure again and for about the eighth time is challenging the support area of $4.33 to $4.34. The more a chart point is challenged, the more vulnerable it becomes with each additional test. A look at the weekly version of the December...

Stemming from multiple factors, agricultural employers nationwide find hiring workers difficult, reflecting a widespread farm labor shortage.

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.