News, Insights & Interviews Archive

Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour, where he and a team of 100 volunteers inspect corn and soybean fields across seven states. Grete talks...

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...

Paul Neiffer is a farm boy by birth. As an adult, he now owns farms in three states. So, he still believes in the future of farmland. But...

She is a college student, farmer, emerging social media creator, and fashion designer. And she is 20 years old. But what drives Kate...

Producers in two industries -- soybeans and cotton -- may find themselves part of record harvests in 2024. A university is working to...

Two “I” states are separated geographically by a third, but they are also separated in another way right now: the direction of their land...

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...

John Roach lives about 1,500 miles from the farm where he grew up in Carlisle, Iowa. But the perspective about the challenges of farming...

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...