The beef sector has had a wild ride in 2020, but the good news for producers is the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic starting in the second quarter have largely been resolved, namely at at the processor's level.

Though there are risks to practices like cover crops and "planting green," the benefits to those types of practices far outweigh the dangers they pose, a soil health expert said recently.

As consumers continue to demand more from the food they purchase, food and ag supply chains are adjusting to meet that new demand, even if it means fundamental paradigm changes to entire sectors of the industry.

There are four dominant climatic cycles in place that foreshadow a quick spring planting season uninterrupted by rainfall in 2021.

It won't be a huge rush to prosperity for many in agriculture in the new year, but variables are lining up to deliver a recovery for the ag sector in 2021, one economist says.

A large portion of the nation’s center is in a winter storm watch or warning Monday morning, with snowfall expected…

Though the USDA hasn't specifically reported a large U.S. grain purchase by China in several weeks, new data show the export pace to that nation surged earlier this fall, and that's buoying soybean prices heading into this week's trade that will be shortened by the New Year's Day holiday Friday.

Overseas demand and adverse crop weather conditions in key growing regions around the world stoked major demand for U.S. corn and soybeans in the last couple of months.

Across the cattle, hog and poultry sectors, producers could see increased feed costs to the tune of 12% in 2021…

In its latest Cattle on Feed report released this week, USDA pegged total domestic feedlot inventory at 12.0 million head as of Dec. 1, just slightly above the same time a year ago.