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The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said the USDA will investigate for evidence of price manipulation in the cattle market in the weeks following a fire at a Tyson beef plant in Kansas.

After digging into yield potential in 10 states, the DTN/Progressive Farmer 2019 Digital Yield Tour, powered by Gro Intelligence, wrapped up by forecasting a national average corn yield of 163.2 bpa and a soybean yield of 44.2 bpa, both below USDA's...

Don't assume Bt traits will protect your field corn from damage.

Livestock producers are reminded to take action to protect their animals from anthrax, especially those in areas with a past history of the disease.

Our farm correspondents take a deep breath, and try to look ahead to fall and start planning for 2020.

School gardens and other projects, such as a project in Louisiana called Seeds to Success, are used as teaching resources across the country.

An attitude of gratitude will not make all this year's farm issues magically disappear, but blogger Katie Pratt says it could help.

This week's head-scratching WASDE report sends our farmer correspondents to the field to pull some yield checks, and both are also hoping timely rains continue.

Whether it was sharing the struggles of getting a crop in or worrying about where the crop may go, farmers and Minnesotans had a lot on their minds at a Farmfest forum on Wednesday in southern Minnesota.

Class III milk prices in July were the best they have been in five years. For farmers who have made it through that time, USDA is now finally sending out checks under the Dairy Margin Coverage program. The payments are a welcome relief for a Minnesota...

Loren Lindler, a student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, shares how she spent a summer internship with DTN/Progressive Farmer.

The Federal Reserve Board is being swept along in the undertow from the trade war.

With crops in need of a rain, eyes are on the skies, but they're also watching the market to see what happens when USDA updates its acreage and yield estimates next week.

Meeting the demands of consumers can be as fickle as feeding a child. What they want and when they want it is both fascinating and frustrating for farmers.

The crop is cooking and summer down on the farm should get be a bit more laid back; but excitement is always just around the corner.

Site management and a little construction savvy help this family grow a duck-hunting tradition.

A Maryland farm's summer camp teaches children the finer points of marketing, animal care and pest management.

Signs of stress can come in many forms such as physical, emotional, behavioral or cognitive, and everyone reacts to stress differently.

USDA on Thursday released details of the 2019 Market Facilitation Program, which includes county payment rates of $15 to $150 per acre for row crops, $11 per head for hogs and 20 cents per hundredweight of milk. Payments will be made in three...

The corn crop struggled through some high temperatures last week, but View From the Cab reporters say it endured better than expected.

Congratulations to the winners of the MyPlanting19 photo contest held by DTN and Progressive Farmer.

Cattle suffer during heat waves, but here are some tips of what producers can do to lessen the stress.

There is a wide range of crop conditions in the field this year and you don't have to travel far to see them.

Every three days, a child in the U.S. dies because of an agriculture-related incident. Families are working to be a little more cautious when it comes to life on the farm.

A University of Missouri Extension specialist is urging patience on many Midwestern roadways after the flooding seen this spring.