Between the summer grilling season and winter holidays, autumn is normally a time of declining beef demand and prices.

There's a lot of demand but also a lot of poor crop weather in key parts of the world — including the U.S. Plains region — that have the world's ag market attention zeroed in on the wheat market.

It's common knowledge that health insurance costs have been moving in only one direction over the last decade or so.

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Farmers had another big week of progress with corn and soybean harvest, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report.

Though it was only around for about 14 hours, the nine-state, 770-mile path of the derecho storm system that carved a swath through the western and central Corn Belt in early August is now understood to be the most costly inland thunderstorm system in history.

“Mandatory” is something of a four-letter word in the cattle business, and recognizing that, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association leaders have…

Mounting dryness and drought conditions in the central Plains, where some areas haven't seen rainfall in over a month, and purported new soybean export demand have both of those pits starting the week's grain trade on higher notes.

Farmers in Brazil are facing hot, dry weather and a delayed start to the rainy season, especially in the soybean-rich central and western parts of the country.

Though it's been over two months since a derecho storm system worked its way through the Midwest, leaving in its wake severe damage to crops, livestock and farm infrastructure.