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Some farmers need high tractive effort. So, they go wide on tires. Tracks achieve the same result with a narrower footprint, and they thrive in moist or wet soils.

The crop condition index for Saskatchewan crops have slid lower during the past two weeks on continued hot and dry conditions.

DTN's weekly average spot price for domestic distillers dried grains was higher versus one week ago.

A pair of nominees for key undersecretary posts at USDA had their confirmation hearings on Thursday before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Climate change and rural broadband were among the dominant topics.

A group of Midwest senators have requested a meeting with President Joe Biden and his cabinet to talk about biofuels' role in the administration.

The third round of frosts in the last month is the coldest with temperatures falling below the freezing mark in portions of Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais -- areas where coffee, citrus, and sugarcane are more heavily farmed. Damage to these crops may be extensive.

A front moving southeast through the Midwest produced a good round of severe weather, but it could have been much worse.

During Dad's last year, he gazed from a care facility window as the seasons changed and so did his life. Our almost daily phone calls from 1,165 miles apart kept us closer than ever.

Seasonality of U.S. corn crop ratings from week 23 to week 39

The challenge always is to understand how one overcomes today's trials in order to thrive in tomorrow's successes.

Weekly charts for DTN national cash indices of corn, soybeans and hard red spring wheat show one correction, one bear trend and one bull market.

The colorful, but very destructive spotted lanternfly has traveled farther west to Indiana. Farmers are asked to keep an eye open for the pest.

Despite back-to-back months of 5% increases in consumer prices, the Federal Reserve isn't hurrying to raise interest rates.

While few farmers consider drought or knee-muck to be good times, from a revenue perspective, this year presents the best opportunity for profits in nearly a decade. Here are the top suggestions from a recent DTN series on ways farmers can capitalize on current markets...