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The 2026 shipping season began in the past week as the Upper Mississippi River is now open in addition to the Great Lakes.

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Gifting and charitable donations can provide a tax benefit to farmers while fulfilling a charitable intent.

There will always be power dynamics at work in a family-owned company, but those dynamics can often be more effectively managed toward a successful future.

A recent post on a message board dedicated to old farm machinery lamented the "death" of the vintage farm machinery hobby. Some of the older machinery is not worth as much as it was years ago but many of the "newer" machines (from the 1960s to the 1980s) are...

The world corn stocks-to-use ratio ex-China is currently projected to be 11%. That would be up slightly from last year's 10.6% but still very close to the 2012-13 era. That means there is a giant sucking sound for corn exports, and the U.S. is in a position to deliver.