According to the results of the 2025 Sustainability Insights survey of growers, water is among the top priorities when it comes to sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

If you want to thrive in the next few years, you have one option: innovate like you’ve never innovated before, using artificial intelligence, says columnist Mark Faust.

“I’ve had conversations with lawmakers on the hill, counterparts in the white house and across the cabinet. We are putting together options from A to Z, so when the President decides it’s time, we can step in,” she says.

While application season is still weeks away, retailers and other suppliers are encouraging farmers to reserve product now.

Growmark FS has two ag retail locations in Rep. Mannion’s district.

With most input prices still record or near-record high, farmers in parts of the country have seen eroding balance sheets for four straight years. Now the concern is more farmers will be forced out of farming this year, unless they see some type of market or government intervention.