With recent headlines about the health of the farmland market as commodity prices continue to climb, economists are taking a deeper dive to get a feel for the likelihood of double-digit year-over-year farmland value gains this year.

It's no surprise to anyone that it's been much colder than normal in much of the country over the last few days, with Arctic air sagging well south of its normal location due to a weak polar vortex.

There's a flood of data and information hitting farmers who use the latest precision ag technology in their crop management. But it's sometimes difficult to properly utilize that data in the right ways.

The value of farmland was one of the agricultural line items that was relatively unscathed by the tumult of the last 12 months; the land market had been under mild pressure from bearish grain markets for years, but a wholesale major decline in values never reached fruition like it did in other key ag markets.

The signup deadline for the federal Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs is just over a…

Not too long ago, crop fertilizer prices were low. But as the corn market has surged, prices for these key crop inputs have also moved higher, with some prices shooting significantly higher in the first week of February, new data show.

Major disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic were common in the livestock industry in the last year. The beef supply chain became more resilient and stakeholders adapted to the pandemic, preventing disruptions from being even more severe.

This time of the year, the snow-water equivalent is a key measure of moisture that will be available for crops…

In what was one of the most challenging years for agriculture, the crop insurance sector rose to the occasion to…

A lingering shortage of soil moisture fueled by continued drought conditions ha winter wheat in parts of the southern Plains in rough shape heading into a critical time period for the crop.