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A calibrated monitor usually does a good job of telling you where yield is changing in a field within a hybrid, but it may not tell you exactly how one hybrid is yielding against another.

Brad Oelmann, president of Farrell Growth Group, shares how farmer-customers fall into three segments based on what they need from their ag retailers.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month. According to the CDC, between 2000 and 2020 suicide rates climbed 46% in rural areas. By comparison, the rate in metro areas climbed 27.3%.

Allied Cooperative (Adams, WI) and ProVision Partners Cooperative (Marshfield, WI) announced the upcoming merger of their cooperatives in March 2023.

Indiana-based agricultural cooperative, Superior Ag announced Richard Lloyd is President and CEO. This follows Barry Day’s retirement on September 1.

“This is the largest ag tech deal ever,” says Eric Hansotia, chairman, president and chief executive officer at AGCO.

If Congress doesn’t pass stopgap funding, crop production and progress reports will probably stall. That won’t bode well for markets. “Usually it means that we’ve got some selling pressure ahead,” says one analyst.

Fall is a great time for farmers to plant cover crops to improve soil health.

Corn harvest in Missouri is at 28% complete, with soybean harvest at only 4%. While Missouri was hit by drought this year which will cut yield average, some areas are bucking that trend.

As labor shortages persist and extreme weather drives up property insurance costs, Ken Zuckerberg encourages agribusinesses to start asking the hard questions today.