CoBank has released their 2024 outlook report, which takes a look at the key themes they expect will shape agriculture and the rural economy in the coming year.

In the last decade, world agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 1.94 percent per year, far slower than the 2.74 percent output growth rate over the previous decade and below the average annual rate of 2.3 percent over the last six decades (1961-2021).

As cybercrimes become more prevalent, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) joins other food companies in efforts to share information and bolster protections.

John Deere, a leader in agricultural machinery, is working towards fully autonomous farming by 2030. Their aim is harnessing AI and machine learning to address pressing challenges, such as unpredictable weather, dwindling farmland, and labor shortages. Their See & Spray technology showcases this...

A letter signed by 3,466 farmers from across the country was sent to President Biden this month. The letter expresses concern that his administration is taking a short-sighted approach to addressing climate change by prioritizing the use of electric vehicles over biofuels, such as corn ethanol.“If...

CropX Technologies announced the launch of Reinke Direct ET™ by CropX, a sensor-based innovation that provides Actual Evapotranspiration (ETa) measurements on a Reinke center pivot irrigation system.

Wisconsin Battery Company recently announced the acquisition of 17 acres in Portage, Wisconsin, where it will build a new manufacturing plant to develop hemp carbon batteries as an alternative for lithium-ion batteries. The company focuses on research, development and manufacturing of clean,...

What was, at one time, conceived to be impossible now has been proven as possible, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said while attending the grand opening of the first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in the United States.LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and...

When it comes to the cattle market at the beginning of 2024, there’s good news ... and then there’s more good news.

Satellite-based remote sensing allows us to see much more than we can see when standing on the ground. New research from the University of Minnesota found, when combined with artificial intelligence, remote sensing could dramatically improve management of soybean aphids.

Understand why oil prices impact corn and soybean prices.

A study from Sandro Steinbach and Yasin Yildirim of North Dakota State University and Xiting Zhuang of the University of Connecticut examines the current challenges in global shipping and their direct impact on U.S. agriculture. In Farmdoc they noted:

The head of the International Dairy Foods Association estimates more than $7 billion in processing expansions are currently underway across the U.S.

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.9 million head on January 1, 2024. The inventory was 2% above January 1, 2023, according to USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service (NASS).

by Nate Kauffman and Ty Kreitman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityNew non-real estate farm lending activity at commercial banks continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2023. According to the Survey of Terms of Lending to Farmers, the volume of new non-real estate farm loans was about 15%...