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.

A new program launched by Land O' Lakes' sustainability provider Truterra, LLC, will begin paying farmers for generating and selling carbon credits as early as this summer.

Net farm income and net cash farm income are expected to decrease 8.1% and 5.8%, respectively, in 2021 compared to 2020 based largely on the absence of direct farm payments that made up a large share of incomes last year.

The deadline for signing up for the USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) was originally set for this Friday. With renewed interest in growing general CRP enrollments, that deadline has been lifted indefinitely for both new contracts and those expiring later this year.