The USDA is projecting the number of turkeys raised in the U.S. this year at 214 million head, which would be down 4% from the 2020 total of 224 million head.Minnesota has the largest inventory at 40.5 million turkeys, up 1%, the only major production state expected to see an increase. Second place...

Imagine flying from Los Angeles to the Washington, D.C. region on a plane fueled with American farm products or forestry waste. Sounds farfetched? Well, it is already becoming a reality.

Tax policy, conservation efforts and input costs were some of the top concerns for growers attending this year’s Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, Nebraska.

Josh Upton, along with his family, manage Landrum’s Homestead and Village in Laurel, Mississippi.

With their victory over rival Canadian National in hand, executives from Canadian Pacific (CP) recently said the railroad's merger with Kansas City Southern (KCS) railroad will be "a real game changer" in the flow of agricultural commodities, especially for Canada and upper Midwest states.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has banned the transportation of live hogs and pork from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to the U.S. mainland even though African Swine Fever (ASF) has not been detected in either of the territories. The move comes as part of USDA’s effort to shield the...

Work continues to reduce or eliminate trade barriers on U.S. ag products. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the European Union has allowed the U.S. more time to satisfy health certificates for livestock. “We were deeply concerned that might impact and affect about a billion and a half dollars of the...

John Deere production and maintenance workers gathered this week for what they called an "informational picket".

Hot August weather outside and hot ag equipment sales inside! Not a single down category for either year-to-date or comparing August 2020 to same month sales in 2021. For the month, sales for over 100 HP 2WD tractors were up 37.8% and 4WD tractors outpaced that by increasing 40.4%. Combine sales...

The decline in ag production loans issued at commercial banks helped loan balances drop by 5% in the second quarter compared to last year, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City report. Some banks saw loan balances drop more than 10% from 2020. The Chicago Fed recorded a 35-year...

USDA has again lowered its 2021 and 2022 milk production estimates because of expectations for lower cow numbers and milk per cow.

China's total arable land amounted to almost 1.28 million sq km (490,000 sq miles) by the end of 2019, down nearly 6% compared with a decade earlier, according to a once-in-a-decade survey of the country's land use published recently.

The United Sorghum Checkoff Program is celebrating a new USDA forecast that estimates farmers will plant 7.3 million acres of the grain this year, a 24% increase from last year.“We have long known that U.S. sorghum’s potential is tremendous, whether as a solution in crop rotations that adds value...

You already know about “supply chain” issues with new pickup trucks, construction materials, computer chips and even Christmas presents. Have you considered how that might affect the corn and soybean harvest schedule this fall? 

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are joining farmers and ranchers in calling for the preservation of stepped-up basis, a tax provision farmers and ranchers rely on to pass their operations down to future generations.