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Declaring that nearly 42 people won't receive food-aid benefits in November because of the government shutdown is unprecedented and reflects a policy choice to use low-income people as leverage to end the shutdown.

Long-range models seem to agree that a flip in the weather pattern will occur in November, bringing heavier rain to central Brazil, but drying out southern Brazil and Argentina.

Clean Fuels Alliance America asked the Trump administration to close a tariff loophole allowing duty-free imported renewable diesel into the U.S., which disadvantages U.S. biofuels producers and American farmers.

Is it time for money to flow out of the overbought stock market and into cheap commodity markets as valid concerns about the former increase?

The proposed 2026 federal science budget would be the lowest this century.

Following a frustrating past year for marketing of 2024 and 2025 crops, time is quickly approaching to begin making plans for 2026-27, as well.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, finished construction of an underwater sill across the bed of the Mississippi River channel near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana.

Comments from the Trump administration have caught beef producers' attention. Prices have been driven by low inventory, and beef producers prefer it to be that way.

2024 and 2025 winter wheat yields for the top 18 growing states and the U.S. vs. the percent those yields deviated from the 25-year trend.

When your biggest customer buys more from you than the next nine customers combined, you've got a problem.

Discussing farm financing is difficult but necessary. Farmers often need supportive financing tools and programs to navigate challenges. Additionally, numerous strategies and advice can help farmers manage costs and face those challenges.

That cloud of black behind the combine might be more than dust. It's nature's way of degrading plant tissue.

Newly appointed Kubota Tractor Corporation President Alex Woods said as Kubota struggles with tariffs, it has some evidence a bottom in the slumping compact tractor market is on the near horizon.

Most-active December Kansas City wheat futures have fallen below long-term support at $5, cementing late 2025 wheat prices amongst the lowest in history.