The U.S. continues to benefit from solid economic growth, low unemployment and moderating inflation. From today’s vantage point, the U.S. economy seems likely to continue on that trajectory into 2025. However, the outlook for the rural economy is more volatile and uncertain. Rural industries are...

The President recently signed a stop-gap government funding bill that calls for speedy payment of $10 billion to farmers to buffer lower commodity prices and high production costs. Congress had already voted to fund the government through March 14.

Demand for biodiesel and renewable diesel surged higher in 2024. Jeff Earl with Clean Fuels Alliance America says states continue to prioritize renewable fuel policies to help grow clean fuel use.

“Moving Iron” podcast host Casey Seymour said the machinery business should settle out in most ways except for used tractor inventory.

A trade-dispute panel ruled recently that Mexico’s restrictions on U.S. genetically modified corn exports violate the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, handing corn producers a major trade victory.

Brian Forrest of Maple Ridge Dairy near Stratford, Wisconsin, embodies a spirit of selflessness and resilience, as he has been an organ donor, not just once, but twice.

“We’ve hit a new normal in commodity pricing, which means the demand side of the equipment equation is likely in a valley as well,” said Andy Campbell, Tractor Zoom’s director of insights. 

AgWeb’s Margy Eckelkamp reported recently that “family farms still dominate a majority of U.S. farms,” having accounted “for about 96% of total farms and 83% of total production in 2023” in the United States.

Dairy Outlook: U.S. consumers eat more cheese and yogurt now than in the 1950s, but they drink a lot less milk.  U.S. dairy continues to be a growth category, both at home and abroad.

The Agriculture Department launched a testing program this week that looks for the bird flu virus in milk fresh from the farm to get a clearer picture of the prevalence of the H5N1 virus among U.S. dairy herds. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the tests would complement ongoing efforts to...

Major U.S. farm groups said they would try to torpedo a short-term government funding bill in Congress this week unless it contains a multibillion-dollar bailout for agriculture. Negotiations fell apart last weekend on inclusion of so-called economic aid in the only must-pass bill left before...

AgroLiquid has announced it plans to acquire Monty’s Plant Food Company to help expand its innovation in agricultural crop nutrition.

Farmer sentiment jumped in November as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer increased 30 points to 145. Both the Current Conditions and Future Expectations indices increased in November, with the biggest improvement taking place in future expectations. The Future Expectations Index...

Farm income is down in 2024 for the second year in a row, with receipts from corn and soybeans — the two largest field crops — off by a combined $23.5 billion from 2023 levels. But higher than expected livestock revenue is a counterweight, according to the USDA. It estimated net farm income, a...

A look at what is happening to American farmland as farmers get older.