A senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing says the market is closely watching China’s reaction to recent geopolitical events.Naomi Blohm says the country continues to have a strong influence on international trade flows.

Low feed costs and strategic risk management are driving profitability recovery in the U.S. swine industry.Hog producers are currently enjoying low feed costs as corn and soybean meal prices are at comfortable levels. One person’s loss is another one’s gain. We see that scenario play out often on...

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into whether leading commercial fertilizer producers colluded to raise prices.The probe targets CF Industries Holdings Inc (NYSE:CF), Nutrien Ltd (NYSE:NTR), The Mosaic Company (NYSE:MOS), Koch Inc., and Norway's Yara International...

The Meat Institute says Senator Schumer's bill will destroy the meat packing industry, sending costs for consumers soaring, reducing union jobs, and harming livestock and poultry producers."This proposal is absurd," said Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts. "Schumer's bill and other...

A state court in Missouri has granted preliminary approval to a proposed U.S, nationwide class action settlement to resolve all current and future claims against Roundup™. Bayer has proposed a $7.3 billion national settlement.

Cybersecurity threats against the food and agriculture sector are rising, and vulnerabilities throughout the supply chain could threaten U.S. food security.

Tech experts say generative AI will revolutionize farm operations from spreadsheet management to labor optimization.

USDA is expecting food prices to rise an additional 3 percent this year.

                                                 Source: Renewable Fuels Association The ethanol industry strongly contributed to the U.S. economy last year, as record-setting production and exports supported hundreds of thousands of jobs and generated tens of billions of dollars in gross domestic product and household income, according to an...

A lot has changed on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus since its founding in 1867, but a storied plot of land near the south quad has been preserved nearly intact for a century and a half. The Morrow Plots, famed in song and story, represent the oldest continuously running...

A group of farmers, Farmers for Free Trade, and business leaders say the US-Canada-Mexico (USMCA) trade agreement provides the certainty that is needed for America’s farmers and ranchers. During a roundtable discussion at the site of the original signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement,...

Farmers across the U.S. continue to navigate narrow margins and tight budgets.

The USDA raised its forecast of prices for corn, soybeans, and wheat at its recent Ag Outlook Forum, partly because of acreage shifts.

The U.S. Supreme Court says the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) doesn’t allow the President to impose tariffs.

An ag economist says declining cheese and butter prices continue to make U.S. products more competitive on the global market.