It's the season for giving, but if annual gifting strategies are part of your estate plan, you may want to reconsider.

These products caught our attention while walking among exhibitors at this year's fall farm shows.

Surrounded by thousands of acres of high-dollar vineyards, California officials and agricultural leaders brought in producers and perspectives from around the country recently to highlight the importance of adapting climate-smart farming practices to help build resiliency...

The price floor under farmland started showing a few cracks this year. It didn't fracture everywhere or on all types of land. But, in Iowa, where prices have set new benchmarks over the years, there was a marked change between March and September.

To help farmers look at various stewardship practices and the effects on their lands, Minneapolis-based farmer cooperative Land O'Lakes has rolled out a new software program called the Truterra Insights Engine.

Most crop farmers expect cover crops to serve as a long-term payback from a short-term cost. But, that's not the case with farmers who graze cover crops, says Meghan Filbert, livestock coordinator with the Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI).

Cameron Dinkins was home from college during Thanksgiving break when a streak of lightning lit up the farmland surrounding his family home, Linden Plantation, in Glen Allan, Mississippi. It had been raining for most of the day, and in that brief glimpse outside, he saw vast...

Agricultural land values are holding steady despite tumbling commodity prices. On the one hand, that's good, because those land prices are propping up equity in farm country, providing much-needed collateral for operating loans. Unfortunately, it's not so good when it comes...

David Hula sits high in his Deere S670, its header chewing through nearly impenetrable rows of corn at 2 miles an hour--52,000 plants to the acre, 780 kernels per ear, eight rows on a pass. He watches the yield monitor tick up, and again, then 600 bushels. "We saw some...

David Hula sits high in his Deere S670, its header chewing through nearly impenetrable rows of corn at 2 miles an hour--52,000 plants to the acre, 780 kernels per ear, eight rows on a pass. He watches the yield monitor tick up, and again, then 600 bushels. "We saw some...

I'll be sending out the W-2 and 1099 forms to my clients in the coming month, so I thought it would be a good time to review the different types of employment classifications. I think one of the most frequently asked questions is if an employer should pay a worker as an...

When Reiss and Heather Bruning wanted to move a generations-old operation from a long tradition of private treaty sales to public auction, they found it easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.