While environmental groups are also setting their sites on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the legality of another herbicide, farmers and farm groups filed a lawsuit earlier this week on the restrictions mandated for dicamba use.

The U.S. corn and soybean crops got smaller as the 2020 growing season progressed, and coupled with a record export projection for corn and the lowest soybean ending stocks in seven years, analysts expect the data contained in Monday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) data to fuel bullish momentum for both markets as North American harvest wraps up.

World markets took note of the announcement Monday that Pfizer is conducting promising late-stage trials on a COVID-19 vaccine, and that bullishness spilled into the grain trade.

Ann Veneman was the first female U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during George W. Bush's first term as president.

The Ogallala Aquifer is a massive natural underground water source — the largest in the contiguous U.S. — that fuels crop irrigation in eight states in the central U.S., and it's been experiencing a high-profile drawdown in recent years.

Minnesota Congressman and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson's defeat in last week's election opened the door to a new leader, and two fellow "Blue Dog" conservative democrats are vying for the position.

Growing concerns about mounting dry weather conditions in South America provided some upward momentum to soybean prices heading into the week's trade Sunday night and into Monday.

While cold air has begun moving south from Canada and cooling temperatures, as is the seasonal tendency in the last month, conditions remain warm and dry in the western third of the U.S.

The dairy market's been strong in the last two months on export demand and government programs providing incentive for consumer dairy purchases.

With much of the 2020 corn and soybean crops in the bin (how much depending on your location), it's time for farmers to start turning attention to post-harvest financial work to get informed and ready for the 2021 crop year.