Category Archives: Top Agriculture News

2025 brought significant challenges to the domestic sugar industry, especially when it came to pesticide use in farming. At the Malt Barley and Sugarbeet Symposium in Billings, Montana, Dr. Rebecca La...

Ag economists are urging producers to sharpen their pencils as they prepare for the 2026 planting season. On a recent webinar, Glennis McClure, Ag Economics Educator with the University of Nebraska-Li...

Farmer sentiment dipped in the December Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. Michael Langemeier, director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue University, said one of last m...

Lately, it appears Congress has been recognizing the many challenges farmers and ranchers are facing these days, like the recent changes made to the way the Adverse Effect Wage Rate is calculated, whi...

Last year, President Trump surprised many in the farming community when he mentioned on social media that the U.S. should look at importing beef from Argentina to help lower beef prices at the grocery...

This is the SFN Market Report with Brooks Schaffer of Palmetto Grain. Reach him at brooks@palmettograin.com or 843-540-4540. Soybeans continue to be the leader this week, trying to put together some s...

It has been the first week of 2026, and wouldn't you know it, dryness is in the air. No precipitation has really come through the Carolinas. And what is that all about? Well, we've got state assistant...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by U.S. Rep. Don Davis of North Carolina has introduced new legislation aimed at tackling one of the deadliest hazards in American agriculture: tractor rollovers. T...

It was quite a year for beef in 2025. Bob Rodenberger of Stockman's Livestock Auction in Apache, Oklahoma, recapped a great year for beef prices. "Historical highs in the cattle business. I mean, we w...

There are a lot of confusing numbers when you talk about where the U.S. stands in terms of soybean imports or exports to China. As far as where we stand today, there are a lot of confusing numbers. So...