The renewable fuels industry got some good news Monday when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it would tighten restrictions on small-refinery Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) waivers.

Though grain prices have rebounded in the last few months, the long-term trend stretching back to the early 1990s of increasing nominal farm debt continues, and it's a call for continued vigilance in managing debt levels, especially in times of tight farm-level profit margins.

The deadline for purchasing crop insurance is about three weeks away, and farmers have options to consider in making their…

Crop-watchers are taking stock of the damage from the winter storm that sent temperatures plummeting as far south as Texas. And the verdict isn't good for crops like grapefruits, onions and cabbage.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data late last week extended the trend of outlooks forecasting tightening grain supplies and robust export demand, and the supply implications of those factors sent corn, soybean and wheat futures higher in overnight trading preceding Monday's session.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Chief Economist Seth Meyer said Thursday agency estimates show U.S. farm exports will be a record of $157 billion this year, with $31.5 billion of that going to China, also a record.

Though it's largely because of major gains in corn, soybean and wheat prices and resulting demand from the farm gate, the increase in fertilizer prices — specifically phosphate (P) and potash (K) — is driven by more than $5 corn and $13 soybeans.

In the year since the global COVID-19 pandemic began, it's disrupted supply chains around the world and caused massive changes in many sectors of the economy.

Glufosinate tolerance is a growing trait in a lot of soybean and cotton varieties in the last two decades, with tolerant acres ballooning — largely in the southeast and mid-South — to more than 15 million acres.

As temperatures begin to slowly rebound and farmers and ranchers start to recover from the Arctic blast that dropped temperatures to around zero as far south as Texas, a system delivering light snow and rain to the eastern seaboard looks to be the only major moisture-bearing weather pattern in the U.S. for the next couple of days.