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Northwest Indiana farmers had a jumpstart to the 2021 planting season, with some farmers planting soybeans the earliest they ever have. As farmers push the planting dates, they say it pays to plant soybeans early.

The few ag retailers who track and separate inventory purchasing gains and losses from product margins and operating earnings know precisely how speculative inventory purchases impact actual operating results.

The past five years have been transformational for AMVAC, says Scott Hendrix, Senior Vice President, U.S. and Canada Crop Sales and Application Technology.

Our audience shared some key data to learn more about the compensation benchmarks in ag retail—particularly for entry-level sales agronomists and applicators/machine operators

Whether it’s how you’re investing in technology or how your company is regearing itself for the farmer of the future, the ag industry is evolving right before our eyes.

A drier and milder window to plant last week played into farmers’ favor. The latest USDA Crop Progress Report shows planting is ahead of average.

China’s soybean imports almost doubled in March from levels in the same month a year earlier, data from customs showed on Tuesday, as cargoes of beans from top exporter Brazil cleared customs after delays.

The chase to capture carbon continues. It’s a possible new source of income for farmers and ranchers, but it’s also bringing a set of challenges and questions. The answer could be both public and private programs.

With a consecutive warm and dry days in much of the Corn Belt, some farmers were able to start planting earlier than normal last week, but the weather pattern this week is flipping, with a cooler bias setting in.

Successive cold snaps in the past week have destroyed between 30,000 and 50,000 hectares of French sugar beet, growers group CGB said on Monday, calling it the worst frost-related losses for the sector ever recorded.