Author: Kevin

For family farmers battling razor-thin profit margins, rising input costs and stubbornly low commodity prices, even modest reductions in equipment and transportation expenses can make a meaningful difference. A new proposal from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

A volatile mix of escalating geopolitical conflict in the Black Sea and unexpectedly lean domestic supply projections sent the grain markets surging Friday, as federal forecasters warned of historically tight grain stocks and a U.S. wheat crop

After nearly a year of uncertainty and disrupted trade, U.S. soybean farmers are seeing one of the strongest signs yet that their largest export customer is returning to the market. Fresh export sales to China, coupled with

Walk into the Winamac Town Park at the Pulaski County Fairgrounds during the third week of July, and the first thing that hits you isn’t the summer heat—it’s the unmistakable bouquet of vintage agriculture: the sweet aroma

For Indiana corn and soybean growers, timely disease information can make the difference between protecting yield potential and suffering costly losses. It’s that grower-focused commitment to applied research and Extension that has earned Purdue University plant pathologist

Over the past month, cash grain markets have been moving against the seasonal trend. New research from Purdue University shows corn and soybean basis levels strengthened across much of the Eastern Corn Belt during June, when basis

On the final Tuesday in April, C.J. Fleenor accomplished something he had never done while farming the rolling hills of Orange County in southwestern Indiana. Under a clear, rare window of cooperative weather, he shut off his

John Deere has agreed to a sweeping antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and five states, resolving a federal lawsuit that accused the agricultural manufacturing giant of illegally trapping American farmers in a high-priced monopoly for

For decades, a quiet but devastating divergence has been unfolding across the American landscape. Beginning in the late 1990s, the historic health advantage enjoyed by rural Americans eroded, replaced by a mortality rate that began to outpace

The Trump administration’s decision not to grant an automatic 16-year extension of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) generated little reaction across commodity markets, with analysts saying traders had long expected the move and viewed it as part of