Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse shares some tips on understanding the differences available in crop insurance options ...

In line with USDA’s Grain Stocks report, which showed a record number of bushels stored off-farm, CoBank customers also reported large increases in total bushels. The USDA data showed a larger share ...

U.S. farmers this summer have received the best weather for growing crops in recent memory. But despite a record-sized crop coming, many in the Corn Belt barely expect to turn a profit this year. Corn ...

Recently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that $12 billion will be made available for the “Farmer Bridge Assistance” program, which will provide economic assistance payments to producers ...

For anyone in Ohio watching South America at the end of January, the spreadsheets still look reassuring. USDA’s January WASDE and the latest official Brazilian and Argentine surveys describe a 2025-26 ...

Few are more invested in our land and food than America’s corn farmers. Yet agriculture is often unfairly criticized, oversimplifying the practices that made the U.S. the world’s most productive and ...

Corn and soybeans may not often appear directly on your dinner plate, but they’re behind much of what does. From feeding the livestock that produce our eggs, meat and dairy to fueling global trade and ...

USDA is estimating near record corn and soybean crops in Iowa this year, but early yields results indicate that might be difficult to achieve, at least for corn. At the Reints farm in northeast Iowa, ...

The researchers say the Green Revolution and exclusive selection for aboveground traits in corn — ignoring traits related to the roots and rhizosphere, the microbe-rich zone surrounding roots — ...

With already thin profit margins and increasingly uncertain farm labor and other input costs, precision agriculture ...