Oil futures settled higher on Thursday on expectations of supply tightness.
During low-margin years, farmers should consider carefully four main areas to maintain a strong financial position.
Follow along as we head to Alabama and Nebraska this summer to follow farmers through the crop season.
Q: I have a Kubota M125X that is the sweetest running engine we have had around our farm in many years. It is a 5-cylinder, and I understand that it was not able to reach the latest Tier emission standards. However, it meets the "good" standards around our farm.
Cash-flow is a growing problem in farm country, and nearly all of the bankers speaking with DTN/Progressive Farmer at a recent conference said there was some part of their portfolio under significant financial stress.
Oxbows--cut off river bends that are often found as small, seasonally wet depressions along field edges--can be multipurpose conservation tools. Oxbows can store floodwater, filter runoff or drainage from tile lines, and act as nurseries for breeding fish.
Studies show the factors behind higher yields go beyond increasing plant populations.
Tar spot on corn may have arrived in the U.S. in 2015, but 2018 will go down as the disease's first year in the major leagues.
B.J. Wilkerson has his hands full overseeing 2,000 acres of irrigated corn and peanut production in addition to running a 700-head cow herd near Trenton, Florida. With 33 center-pivot sprinklers pumping groundwater for the crops, anything he can do to save time and money...
History remembers little about June 22, 1969, but Dale Johnson does. That's the day he went from being a teenager who helped on the family farm to an actual farmer--a young man with a plot and a plan.
No family wants to end up in court arguing about how inherited farmland will be divided. It's even more discouraging when one owner wants to keep the land, but the court orders all the owners to sell
Trade disruptions in Iowa involving soybeans, pork and corn combined will impact the Iowa economy somewhere in the range of $1.68 billion to $2.216 billion looking at direct effects and additional related losses in different sectors of the economy.
Arkansas advisor uses test plots to fine-tune his farmer recommendations.
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