The Federal Biscay, the first oceangoing vessel of the 2021 maritime shipping season, arrived in the Port of Duluth-Superior on Sunday, April 18.

A technical look at weekly charts of live cattle, feeder cattle and lean hogs.

U.S. corn export sales and shipments as of the second week in April vs. as a percent of the USDA April WASDE export projection

Robert Bonnie was nominated for a Senate confirmation to become undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation. Bonnies major portfolio at USDA focuses on conservation and cli... [Read Full Blog]

USDA's farm income forecast for 2021 calls for lower net farm incomes, but that hardly tells the story.

A much colder pattern is in store for the central U.S. during the next 10 days or more.

Poet LLC announced it is expanding purified-alcohol production at an ethanol plant in Ohio and is launching a new label for renewable carbon dioxide and dry ice.

A giant show-and-tell farm grows clues to fight back against soybean cyst nematode.

Packers only buy cattle with time when they know that supplies are going to be short, or when they know that the cash cattle market could rally. In the current market's scenario, b... [Read Full Blog]

Brazil rain through the end of April is unlikely to offer moisture support for record safrinha corn yields.

"Cold War" is a misleading historical analogy for the U.S.-China relationship. The two countries are indeed serious rivals, but they're also economically interdependent.

When considered best management practices to ways to maximize manure usage, think of following the 4Rs of nutrient stewardship -- the right fertilizer source at the right rate at t... [Read Full Blog]

The July MGEX spring wheat contract reached a fresh contract high on April 19 despite light volume trade, while bumping up against retracement resistance at $6.77 1/2/bushel on the... [Read Full Blog]

Farm families can show off their planting pride by entering the MyPlanting21 photo contest. The contest is open through June 1.