An Urban's Rural View

The fundamentals are bearish for the dollar, and while a declining dollar is good for ag exports, it isn't an unalloyed blessing.

Inflation is picking up, and while prices are still rising at rates central bankers consider safe, some economists are starting to worry.

Startling statistics show that increasingly it's rural areas and small towns rather than big cities that are dogged by social problems.

Why the divisions between urban and rural, liberal and conservative, have intensified, and what to do about it.

No matter who prevails in a legal battle at the World Trade Organization pitting China against the U.S. and European Union, the result could disrupt the international trade system.

A report on DTN/The Progressive Farmer's 11th annual Ag Summit.

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research makes the case for public-private partnerships as a way to get more high-value ag research for the limited public funds available.

Agriculture groups' pleas not to withdraw from NAFTA displease Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

The administration's failure to negotiate a bilateral trade deal with Japan raises questions about the president's notion that the U.S. can replace multilateral arrangements like TPP and NAFTA with bilaterals.

A survey of the history of Spain provides unexpected insights into the history of agricultural relocations.

Washington still hasn't come up with a plan to pay for big infrastructure investments -- and doesn't seem to be looking very hard.

The world's biggest restaurant chain is promising healthier and more "sustainable" food even as it doubles down on courting its traditional customers.

For good, understandable business reasons, most farmers don't sell at farmers markets. In one way, that's a shame.

All of the farm-bill interest groups want more. What's likely to be available is less. Here's why.

Is Russia an emerging superpower in global food supply?

If the U.S. is going to make a priority of rectifying trade deficits, why not start with the really big one?

A Wall Street mogul who owns an oil refiner has been trying to get the government to shift the "point of obligation" for blending ethanol into gasoline from refiners to retailers. He has failed -- so far.

A company in Switzerland is creating buzz with a burger that buzzes.

There's danger in the game of nuclear chicken the U.S. and North Korea are playing, but there's also the possibility of a more cooperative U.S.-China relationship that could have implications for ag exports.

President Trump's new chief of staff is imposing order and discipline on an unruly executive branch.