Blogs

The wet season is starting on time, but mostly due to fronts pressing into central Brazil. El Nino is likely to cause more sparse precipitation this season.

Greg Ibach, a former Nebraska agriculture director, would succeed Luke Lindberg who has been named executive director of the United Nations World Food Program.

Irrigated corn sites are mostly below average, and rainfed sites are mostly no better than average as 2026 winds down.

Between ICE raids disrupting production and Texas and Kansas no longer reporting fed cash cattle prices due to confidentiality, it's no wonder why the market closed lower on Monday as the cattle complex needs to see more support.

Poet LLC supplied ethanol for the first U.S. 100% ethanol ship-fueling operation with Maersk, as a new report highlights marine shipping's massive market potential.

Seed corn harvesting crews race Mother Nature to pick the crop and get it to the processing plant to preserve quality.

Processors in parts of Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Southern Minnesota and Nebraska are pushing hard for old crop beans due to delayed harvest.

Along these lines, this chart shows the 2026, 2025 and 25-year average for the week 38 soybean condition report for the top soybean states and the U.S. vs. the percent that this year's week 38 rating differs from the 25 year average.

The Federal Reserve is now raising rates, not lowering them, and supply-and-demand fundamentals may keep rates higher.

Statistics Canada's July 31 stocks estimates came in above AAFC's August update for all but oats, thanks again to larger-than-expected on-farm stocks.

The ruling in the U.S. District Court of Eastern California could force the Labor Department to recalibrate wages for farm workers. The department changed the Adverse Effect Wage Rate last year, reducing farmer pay to migrant workers by an estimated $2.46 billion.

Technical analysis is an important part of the toolbox. The December corn chart provides numerous examples to demonstrate various formations.

The U.S. has accomplished a lot in 250 years. Perhaps the best way to appreciate those accomplishments is by learning more about what they really are and how they truly came to be.

In this equipment roundup, DTN/Progressive Farmer looks at high diesel costs hitting returns; March equipment sales down; reports that Cat buys Monarch technology; Fieldwork Robotics readying an autonomous picker; new equipment from KIOTI and Loftness; and Kubota offering...