The Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dipped 5 points in February. Farmers’ perspectives regarding both current conditions on their farms and their expectations for the future also weakened. The Index of Current Conditions fell 2 points and the Index of Future Expectations declined 6...

A machinery marketer says inventories of used tractors and equipment are growing.  Sandhills Global publishes Equipment Trader. Sales Manager Mitch Helman says inventories across all used tractor categories were higher in February than a year ago.

Merck Animal Health has unveiled the results of the company's first-ever consumer transparency research study, finding that two-thirds of consumers say transparency in animal protein is extremely or very important.

Troy Bancroft, AgroLiquid Co-Founder and Board President, was honored by the National FFA Organization with the Honorary American FFA Degree.

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and CNH Industrial brands (Case IH and New Holland) recently signed a joint memorandum of understanding that provides farmers and ranchers the right to repair their own farm equipment. The MOU follows a similar agreement AFBF entered into with John Deere...

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House to permanently authorize the USDA’s National Detector Dog Training Center.

Adding low-cost ethanol to the nation's gasoline supply improves energy security and saves the average American household more than $750 per year, according to a new study conducted by energy economists from the University of California-Berkeley and leading universities in Brazil and the Czech...

Cattle engineered to resist disease could be as little as a year away from the marketplace. A gene-editing technology developed at Washington State University is being licensed to a global animal genetics company for developing lines of cattle resistant to bovine respiratory disease, the primary...

New data from USDA’s Economic Research Service shows that between fiscal years 2018 and 2022, Mexico accounted for nearly 14 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports. With a total value of $28 billion, Mexico is projected to be the United States’ second largest destination for U.S. agricultural...

By Charlie Glass 

This is the title of an analysis item by Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a columnist at Foreign Policy and a fellow for international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Liu wrote, “The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) understand that ‘to the emperor, the people is heaven; to the...

The U.S. Champion Cheese Contest has crowned a champion. An aged Gouda named Europa from Arethusa Farm Dairy in Bantam, Connecticut, was named the 2023 U.S. Champion Cheese! Head Cheesemaker Eric Schmid was surprised by the announcement. Schmid says he is originally from Wisconsin and moved east to...

With higher-than-average costs and spring planting on the horizon, farmers are locking in their 2023 input needs.  Of the farmers responding to the January Purdue Ag Economy Barometer, 45% cited higher input costs as their top concern in 2023. 

Economist Ernie Goss with Creighton University says farmland values have not reached their peak. “We’re seeing farmland prices go for as much as $25,000 an acre.”

The recent USDA annual report on "Farm and Land in Farms" showed slight drops in farm numbers and farm acreage in 2021 compared with 2020.