Farmers and ranchers are among those likely to face winds of up to 74 mph from the Gulf coast from eastern Texas to Mississippi, where Hurricane Delta is expected to make landfall Friday evening and deliver up to 15 inches of rainfall and storm surge up to 11 feet inputs of Louisiana including the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Fall harvest is still underway in the Corn Belt, but crop specialists have observed some crop conditions that could have major implications for the 2021 growing season and call for attention in securing crop inputs for the next year, namely herbicides.

Recent USDA data showed 2020 net farm income is expected to surge to beyond $100 billion for the first time in seven years, marking an almost $20 billion increase from 2019.

Hurricane Delta is intensifying as it makes landfall in the Gulf, delivering heavy rainfall to coastal areas and inland through Louisiana, eastern Arkansas, Mississippi and into Tennessee and the Bootheel of Missouri.

As the COVID-19 pandemic created new uncertainty and disrupted the normal function of the farmland marketplace, many potential sellers held on to land they would have otherwise been putting on the market.

The U.S. Drought Monitor shows much of the central and southern Plains — where a lot of cattle are grazed over the winter — is facing dry conditions heading into late fall and winter, and the Drought Severity & Coverage Index (DSCI) indicates drought conditions are increasing in severity.

The 2018 farm bill changed milk pricing rules in an effort to boost risk management capabilities through things like hedging…

Selecting Price Loss Coverage (PLC) or Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) is always a challenge for farmers, as some economists speculate about the long-term viability of PLC.

Fall harvest may be the culmination of this year's crop, but more and more farmers are thinking ahead to next year, namely in making early preparations and crop input purchase decisions.

Soybean harvest progress almost doubled in the last week, positioning farmers well ahead of where they were at this time a year ago, according to Monday's USDA Crop Progress report.