Blogs

A new guide helps soybean farmers identify and manage four of the biggest nematode threats.

A very active weather pattern will continue this week and extend through next week as well. Drought reduction is likely, but deficits may be too large to overcome during this pattern.

The conflict has driven up insurance premiums and created a backlog that now threatens shortages and delivery delays.

Between the conflicts in the Middle East to the unknown details regarding a potential strike at the JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado, the cattle complex is under some unforeseen pressure.

In rejecting President Trump's tariffs, the Supreme Court reined in an abuse of presidential emergency powers. It didn't stop presidents from declaring dubious emergencies.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in a news release, touted the Trump administration is spending more than $1 billion to accelerate progress on farm modernization and long-term food supply. HHS will spend $100 million conducting research into alternatives for farm...

U.S. wheat export sales and shipments as of the third week in February as a percentage of the February USDA export projection along with those sales as a percentage of the final export figure vs. the percent change in U.S. wheat exports from the February WASDE projection...

Safrinha corn planting is slightly behind schedule, a large concern with limited soil moisture and only about two months of the wet season left.

A mutually beneficial relationship involving trade in canola oil and renewable diesel or biodiesel should help minimize tariff risks in the upcoming USMCA negotiations.

The intimidation tactics becoming all-too familiar in politics today have now reached a trusted institution in agriculture: The FFA. Enough's enough.

Christopher Burdett pleaded guilty to generating $7 million in fraudulent renewable fuel credits by vastly overstating biodiesel production, as part of Renewable Fuel Standard scheme.

While the corn market has reacted in a positive manner from the renewed concern about dryness in the southern half of Argentina, the sharp fall in the U.S. dollar, rise in crude oil and recent talk about a policy in favor of year-round E15, there are some technical roadblocks...

Commodities brokers advise farmers to develop disciplined grain marketing plans based on production costs, stick to price targets, seek professional guidance and utilize futures and options for effective risk management.

A G4 geomagnetic storm may degrade satellite navigation for some hours and disrupt low-frequency radio navigation. But given this is January and not the middle of spring planting, this storm if it arrives will have negligible effect on U.S. farms.