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USDA looked into its crystal ball this week and released its first round of numbers for many key forecasts for agriculture in 2019 and beyond.
Whether you are managing millennials or you are a millennial leader responsible for guiding a group of employees in day-to-day operations on your farm, generational differences shouldn’t be ignored.
Farm Journal and Indigo are hosting two events next week for cotton farmers.
The public comment period for the new Waters of the U.S. rule is now underway.
The rise of farmer’s markets to home-delivery meal kits to niche brands claiming gluten-free and sunshine-fed products are just a few clues the food landscape is cluttered, confusing and changing.
Anytime you’re in business with family there will be challenges. That’s why it’s important farmers remember which “hat” they’re wearing, says Davon Cook of Ag Progress.
Anthony Schwarck’s strong business acumen and focus on the business of farming earned him the title of the 2019 Tomorrow’s Top Producer Horizon Award winner.
County Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices rushed to get Market Facilitation Program (MFP) payments processed before a government shutdown closed the offices Friday, according to USDA under secretary Bill Northey.
On Dec. 4, Jerry Hennessey surrendered to authorities and appeared in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, where he was charged with mail fraud.
Bayer AG plans to cut 12,000 jobs and exit its animal health business in an effort to mollify Wall Street.
On Nov. 1, 2017 FMC closed on a large number of DuPont assets, thereby rocketing itself to become the fifth-largest global chemical company. Post-acquisition the company plans to deliver 16 new products in four years.
While his name will not appear on a ballot Nov. 6, President Donald Trump looms large over the midterm elections.
The U.S. and Canada have agreed on a trade deal that would save the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral bloc, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Brazil lags far behind a global digital revolution to automate agriculture. Now, Deere & Co., and other farm-equipment makers, are helping Brazil to bridge that great digital divide.
A former grain elevator manager is on the run after allegedly pocketing $2 million from the Ashby Farmers Cooperative Elevator Co. in west-central Minnesota.
Deere and Company said Friday that the impact of stronger fundamentals for other crops outweighed the impact of the decline in soybeans, which have fallen because of Chinese tariffs.
Pipeline Foods LLC., U.S.-based supply chain solutions company focused on organic, non-GMO and regenerative food and feed, will acquire a 3.4-million-bushel grain elevator from ADM Company in Atlantic, Iowa.
A $289 million verdict against Monsanto (Bayer) was the first of what may be thousands of cases in the debate over whether Roundup causes cancer. Bayer’s CEO is trying to ease fears of Bayer investors.
Shares of Bayer slumped as much as 12 percent, the most since September 2011, in Frankfurt, Germany on Monday as investors respond to the guilty verdict in the Monsanto cancer case.
The U.S. said it will begin imposing 25 percent duties on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports in two weeks.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the world’s largest agricultural trading companies, posted better-than-expected second-quarter profits.
Syngenta announced Wednesday it received EPA registration approval for Vibrance Cinco fungicide seed treatment. It is labeled for use in corn against seed- and soil-borne diseases.
While some states, such as Missouri, have strict cutoff dates, others rely on label guidelines which stop applications at R2. In many areas, soybeans are at or near R2.
From east to west growing conditions greatly vary. While some farmers struggle through drought conditions, others are wondering just how long soybeans can handle extremely wet feet.
A rout in commodities deepened as the threat of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies intensified, hitting markets from steel to soybeans.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat plants containing a trait developed by Monsanto in southern Alberta.
Chris Novak is leaving NCGA to be the new CEO of CropLife America.
Bayer AG is days away from a transformation into the world’s biggest maker of seeds and agricultural chemicals.
President Donald Trump signaled his intention to impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports and curbs on investments in sensitive technology.
Deere & Co says rising freight costs and higher prices for raw materials is forcing the equipment to raise prices.