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Hemp is a growing industry in part of the United States. One state association is suing because of new “emergency rules.” New federal...

A statewide association is working to help ranchers in Oregon recover from wildfires that threatened both their cattle and feed for their...

Farmers got welcome news when a USDA report showed income projections would not be as bad as first thought. The seafood industry hopes...

After months of speculation, we should soon know how much the Federal Open Market Committee will reduce borrowing costs. The federal...

Farmers and investors will find out if a massive fertilizer acquisition will limit their supply options and raise their costs....

A company hoping to build a five-state pipeline found progress in one state as it pushes for it in another state. A farmland investment...

September looks to be the month that unemployment numbers will spur action that reduces interest rates. One state’s residents won’t see...

Lower crop prices + limited beef supplies + increased competition from Brazil = a record projected U.S. agricultural deficit, according...

Borrowers, future borrowers, and investors could have reason to appreciate a significant revision of the nation’s employment numbers. The...

Raise your hand if you saw this coming. (We suspect many hands just went up.) It seems all but certain that Congress will not pass a new...

As farmland owners and investors wait for lower interest rates, they have a much different wait than thousands of Midwest workers: those...

Ideas are no guarantee to become policy. Proposals are no certainty to become law. But one that spans more than 900 pages has some...

U.S. stock markets, even with Monday’s fall, have produced record after record high. Investors have largely pushed aside dire predictions...

U.S. producers were already skeptical of used cooking oil entering the country from several other countries, including China. But now...

Kevin Ross has used glyphosate on his farm, believes in its ability to control weeds better than almost anything else, and he doesn’t...

Jefferson County, Iowa – On July 17, 465.73 acres just outside the southeast Iowa town of Pleasant Plain were sold at a public auction....

There are so many economic indicators, statistics, trends, cuts, gains, and projections in the agricultural industry. But who feels these...

What unites Alabama Ag Credit with the American Woodcock Society? What links Friends of the Chicago River with Georgia Milk Producers?...

As farmland owners and investors worry about what avian influenza could do to their flocks, herds, workforce, and their bottom line, they...

The crucial agricultural state of Iowa has endured yet another series of layoffs connected to the farm industry, while new key federal...