Minding Ag's Business

Powerful winds whipped up planting season dust across the country during the weekend, prompting a dust storm warning in Chicago, which has not seen one of such magnitude since 1934.

Global tensions and trade wars rise as geopolitics, markets, and environmental factors create uncertainty for farmers. Developing value-added products and new markets may offer solutions.

During low-margin years, farmers should consider carefully four main areas to maintain a strong financial position.

The Economic Research Service's third reading of net farm incomes is lower than 2023, but the decline is softer than initially forecast due to better-than-expected production expenses.

Living on the family farm or ranch can be challenging. Surviving through the changes in agriculture can lead to a change in what legacy means to each person.

Fuel and fertilizer prices are expected to soften for the 2025 growing season, but projected corn and soybean returns remain negative for 2025.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit last month rejected appeals filed by attorneys who represented farmers in the Syngenta corn settlement. The attorneys for years have been contesting court allocations of compensation for legal fees in the case.

On Friday, June 14, DTN will host a webinar examining the cattle market's long-term outlook and how producers can use livestock risk protection insurance to protect their business from downside market risk.

While rain may slow the national planting pace, some growers will get a few windows of opportunity. Anxiety about U.S. planting and Brazilian flooding has changed the market trend.

Farmland analytics company AcreValue simplifies land research by making title records easy to search and weaving them together to show broader trends.

A dust storm shut down an Illinois interstate Tuesday, just about a year after a tragic accident caused by blowing dust killed eight. Rain is on the way and research is underway to determine factors contributing to these Midwestern dust-ups.

Collaboration conversations between CHS and Growmark, two of the nation's largest farmer-owned cooperatives, have concluded. No new opportunities will be pursued at this time.

More farmers borrowed money in 2023, resulting in a growing loan business for the nation's farm banks, according to an annual report from the American Bankers Association.

The next Ag Summit Series webinar will discuss strategies and plans to help farmers make the best of a tough year of prices and weather.

Crop insurance purchases for most row-crop growers must be made by March 15. Farmers also need to visit their local Farm Service Agency office to make their ARC or PLC elections for the year.

Crop insurance purchases for most row-crop growers must be made by March 15. Farmers also need to visit their local Farm Services Agency office to make their ARC or PLC elections for the year.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack pointed to the expansion of crop insurance coverage and the Commodity Credit Corporation as important tools to support farm incomes at USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum. However, a panel of former USDA chief economists see issues that could...

The Fed's challenge in 2024 will be timing. Leaving rates too high for too long could damage the economy, but rates cut too quickly could fuel more inflation.

Think about your own and your business's habits that can change. Then do it.

It cost an average of $11,835 to buy an acre of Iowa farmland in 2023, and while that's a record, the 2023 Iowa State University Land Value Survey highlights several trends that suggest a change may be coming to the land market.