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The new Beneficial Ownership Information final rule announced on Tuesday by the Treasury Department essentially removes the burden of reporting ownership details to the federal government for an estimated 32 million small...

DTN's Digital Yield Tour projects Iowa will have the highest corn yield in the country at 214 bushels per acre (bpa). Iowa is also projected to have the second-highest soybean yield at 61.8 bpa. While both yields are strong, Iowa's...

Farmers and analysts who spoke to DTN last week at Minnesota Farmfest said they expect the state's crops to produce yields comparable to last year, which saw record or near-record yields in most counties. DTN's Digital Yield...

The Minnesota Farmfest show hosted an outlook forum with farm economists and a commodity analyst looking at finances and market conditions. That was followed by standing-room-only debates for governor and U.S. Senate races in...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins spoke at Farmfest in Minnesota on Tuesday, announcing some changes to crop insurance, including a two-month delay for paying premiums this year. She also talked about modernizing USDA data...

Buying seed, fertilizer and crop protection products months before planting can lower total input costs and protect farm profits.

USDA on Friday released its annual Land Values Summary report, covering both cropland and pasture. Nationally, cropland values topped $6,000 an acre for the first time, while pasture values also reached $2,000 an acre.

Six Republican senators and 12 GOP House members wrote to the secretaries of the departments of Homeland Security, Labor and State urging administrative actions to deal with growing problems with the H-2A visa program used by...

In announcing Bunge's second quarter finances on Wednesday, the company's executives said strong soybean crushing margins, expanding renewable-fuel demand and geopolitical disruptions are collectively creating a favorable...

The Trump administration announced new tariffs on Brazilian products on July 15, but excluded some key agricultural products such as beef and coffee. Brazilian ethanol will face a tariff; however, Brazil hasn't been exporting...

Over time, the farm safety net has shifted from primarily offsetting market losses to increasingly boosting profitability for major commodity crops since 2007, according to economists at Ohio State University and the University of...

In a federal lawsuit over patent and licensing rights to glyphosate-resistant corn seed, Bayer CropScience on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit brought by Latham Quality Inc., a company that alleged...

A study released by the National Corn Growers Association spotlights that U.S. corn farmers paid an average of 68% more for seed than Brazilian growers from 2023 through 2025, while U.S. growers also paid substantially more for...

According to the monthly Purdue-CME index, farmer sentiment regarding current conditions dropped by 5 points in June to 113 points, the lowest level since December 2024. Farmers' view about the future also fell by 7 points to 118...

Mount Vernon showcases George Washington's innovative approaches to agriculture.

Bayer Group has announced the company is consolidating its Roundup business into a new subsidiary, Ruveon LLC.

Monsanto, which is now owned by Bayer Crop Science and its subsidiary, Ruevon LLC, filed a petition with the International Trade Commission, alleging that glyphosate from China is being sold in the U.S. below fair-market value. The...

Following court approval earlier this month, a consulting firm for Monette Farms released details of lands for sale. Brokers across Canada, Montana, Colorado and Arizona listed farms for sale totaling roughly 274,000 acres.

President Donald Trump on Monday declared an emergency under the Tariff Act of 1930 to suspend countervailing duties on Moroccan phosphate for at least eight months. The decision won praise by corn and soybean farm leaders.

The Senate farm bill includes a range of provisions that could directly affect farmers and ranchers. Among them are expanded USDA financing for precision agriculture equipment and fertilizer storage, new flexibility to use virtual...

Vice President JD Vance pitched the idea Monday that the Trump administration wants unfrozen Iranian funds to go to buy U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans, wheat and corn. Going back 25 years, the U.S. has only seen a...

Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture on Wednesday examined issues around Brazil's production forecasts for 2027. Like U.S. farmers, Brazilian farmers face low commodity prices, as well as high fertilizer and input...

Farmers with losses from flooding or other storm damage should have already contacted their crop insurance agent and had an adjuster come out. An insurance provider may decide it is still practical to replant a crop, but that...

A Canadian judge has approved plans for a Saskatchewan-based farming giant that fell on the wrong side of creditors to sell 274,000 acres of ground in Canada and three western states, including Montana, Arizona and Colorado.

Fertilizer companies such as Mosaic Co. have been forced to idle production because sulfur exports from the Persian Gulf have slowed dramatically. An executive with Mosaic talked about production challenges tied to the Strait of...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told senators on Wednesday that USDA needs more authority than the current $30 billion under the Commodity Credit Corp. The fund is stretched, she said, due to changes in farm programs and...

President Donald Trump commented Wednesday that he doesn't think the U.S. needs any products from Canada or Mexico. As Trump made those comments, groups were testifying before Congress that the USMCA trade deal has been a...

Farmers on the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) tour in North Carolina spotlighted how they are improving soil moisture retention and cutting back on their fertility costs using cover crops on different types of...

Mount Vernon showcases George Washington's innovative approaches to agriculture.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed Monday that a calf had been infected in La Salle County, Texas, which is in the adjacent county to where last week's cases were reported. But APHIS also reported a...

At a farmer roundtable in Wisconsin, Trump also suggested his administration is looking at another possible aid package for farmers. The president also said fertilizer prices would come down after the war with Iran ends.

OMAHA (DTN) -- Farm groups are continuing to press Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to drop the 16.8% countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports.

More than 100 corn farmers from as many as 18 states organized their own field hearing at a farm in northern Texas with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC chair told farmers the agency is investigating the...

USDA Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce said landowners should start to receive notifications within the next month about whether they have farmland eligible for enrollment in base acres. Fordyce...

The Justice Department stated in a news release that Bayer agreed to remove potentially anticompetitive provisions from its seed loyalty program. DOJ stated the agreement came as part of the Antitrust Division's investigation...

In their efforts to show the Trump administration is focused on bringing down fertilizer prices, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins led another press event on Tuesday at USDA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., to tout the...

Firms with nitrogen projects at various stages of development say they have seen more focus on ramping up production, especially since Trump administration officials announced a strategy at the end of April to build out more...