In January, Louis Dreyfus Co., one of the world's largest ag commodity traders, sold 60,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans (2.2 million bushels) to a Chinese processor using a digital "blockchain" platform. The sale worked better than expected.

More farmers likely will be filing Chapter 12 bankruptcy in 2018 as they continue to struggle with costs of production exceeding commodity prices. That's according to a new report from ag lender CoBank.

Imagine pulling into your field with a super sprayer equipped with technology that identifies weeds, fungus and even plant nutritional needs, then mixes and applies the necessary inputs all on the same trip through the field.

Farming in a great environment has put big corn yields in the bins for Vern Frederickson and his family for years. But, the Fredericksons, aided by their agronomist and seed suppliers, have pushed yields to exceptional levels in the past decade.

A lot of people told me I was nuts," says Tom Perlick when he announced he and his son, Scott, were launching a distillery as a way to add value to the crops grown on their 3,000-acre farm in northwest Wisconsin.

Without irrigation water, farming is impossible in Madera County, California. That's where Tom Rogers farms.

Chevrolet's first production truck was the 1918 One-Ton, a design inspired by a modified parts-moving vehicle used in its production plants.