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.

Going into Tuesday's monthly USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, the trade expected substantial increases in export sales for both corn and soybeans, but that boost only came to fruition in the soybean trade.

Farmers are expected to plant massive corn and soybean crops this spring as a response to recent market movement and record-low domestic grain stocks. Corn is expected to see an especially big year; if it's realized, this year's crop will be the third-largest in the last 75 years, just behind 2012 and 2013.

Labor is one of the biggest challenges facing a few sectors of agriculture right now. Recent changes like changing legislation, increased farmer efforts to align with the Fair Labor Standards Act and growing advocacy on behalf of farm workers in sectors like the dairy industry have many facing growing costs to adhere to increasing regulations.