The soybean market has outperformed most of the trade’s expectations amid bearish sentiment regarding South America’s record ...

Block grew up in Galesburg, Ill., and helped on his family farm milking cows, collecting eggs and feeding pigs. His childhood ...

Don Roose, U.S. Commodities, says grains had a quiet day as they were consolidating around strike prices as it was May option ...

Since his passing, many have honored his commitment to the world’s most vulnerable. And they’re right. But he also understood something essential: that achieving food security in the 21st century ...

Learn about an Iowa plot trial that is looking at the yield boosting potential of strip cropping corn and cover crops.

Drew Lerner, founder of World Weather, Inc., says the summer of 1968 had some strong patterns, including a wetter bias in the ...

Sunlight drives photosynthesis, which drives starch production, which drives yield,” explains Ken Ferrie. If sunlight hits the ground, it's wasted, so maximizing sunlight capture requires closing rows ...

In today’s economy, the ability to farm often depends on the ability to commute,” says Daniel Munch, economist at American ...

Flaring tensions in the Black Sea region and not-so-spring-like weather combined to lift grain futures in the overnight session. Wheat futures are leading gains. For more details about the weather ...

Taxes and insurance are on every farmer’s mind—and if they’re not, they should be. Given all the regulatory changes for crop insurance and the Affordable Care Act, plus uncertainty ...

Scott Varilek, Kooima Kooima Varilek, says live cattle traded two-sided early Friday as the market awaits larger scale cash ...

Same song, different verse. That’s the theme of the latest farm financial data published earlier this month by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of ...