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Members of IBEW System Council No. 11 began a strike in Canada after contract negotiations with CPKC broke down.

USDA released details on the Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) program. USDA has also increased the funding for the program due to higher input costs. The payments to specialty crop growers are being made to deal with marketing losses in the 2025 growing...

Though it has been very wet in a lot of areas lately, a drier pattern is setting up during the next two weeks across large portions of the Midwest and Southeast.

Farmers for Soil Health, an initiative to increase the use of cover crop acres on U.S. farmland, has restructured its contracts and increased its payment rates. Enrollment is open until Aug. 31, 2026.

The soybean/corn price ratio continues to support a shift in area from corn to soybean planting as the season wraps up, backing ideas that corn acres are likely to decline further in the June report.

While the White House touts that China has agreed to buy $17 billion in agricultural commodities under an agreement reached last week, a new report shows U.S. agricultural exports to China fell by $14.9 billion during much of the past year.

Over the next several weeks, spot July soybean futures could move in either direction with both bullish and bearish factors likely to assure continued volatility in the weeks and months ahead. Iran, China and large speculators could all have a say in which direction soybeans...

Michael Grunwald's "We're Eating the Earth" argues the best thing agriculture can do to fight climate change is leave land wild.

Poet LLC and Antora have commissioned a 5-gigawatt-hour thermal battery system at Poet's Big Stone City, South Dakota, ethanol plant.

Percent the U.S. winter wheat yield deviates from the 25-year trend vs. U.S. winter wheat crop ratings.

DTN/Progressive Farmer examines the challenges facing rural America and the solutions some communities are embracing to succeed, in a series titled "Rural Resilience."

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...

Yet another month of below-normal precipitation puts into question how much corn Brazil can produce with its safrinha crop.

Commodities brokers advise farmers to develop disciplined grain marketing plans based on production costs, stick to price targets, seek professional guidance and utilize futures and options for effective risk management.