Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue hasn't been in office one full year yet, and he's traveled to more than half of the U.S. Since he assumed the highest office in agriculture on April 25, 2017, there's been a lot of…
An agreement to revise Section 199A tax reform language, which currently gives farmers a financial incentive to sell through cooperatives, has been reached by lawmakers. According to Pro Farmer’s Washington policy analyst, Jim Wiesemeyer, the new provision is retroactive to…
CORN This month’s 2017/18 U.S. corn outlook is for larger exports and increased corn used to produce ethanol. Corn used to produce ethanol is raised 50 million bushels to 5.575 billion based on the most recent data from the Grain…
Cover crops provide a variety of benefits, but if you don’t terminate them well they can limit your cash crop’s success. Because there is more than one way to get the job done, be sure to consider your options. The…
Whether it's winter fatigue in the upper Midwest or spring fever in the warmer climes of the Hog Belt, this time of year can sometimes catch producers off guard when it comes to stress on pig health. Being ready with…
The USDA held its annual Agricultural Outlook Forum this week in Arlington, Va. As many as 2,000 attendees attended the USDA's largest meeting of the year, and many ag-related topics were discussed. One of the issues discussed was China and…
The growth rate for U.S. imports of agricultural goods has more than doubled the pace of U.S. ag exports since 1995, a new report on agricultural trade reveals. Rising incomes in developing countries will create more export demand for U,S,…
Three days after President Trump was inaugurated, one of his first exercises of presidential power was withdrawing the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The remaining 11 nations are expected to sign the final trade agreement in March, and…
As tensions escalate between the U.S. and China, one crop is emerging as the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soybean. China is the biggest buyer of American soybeans, picking up about a third of the entire…
While some states in the Western Corn Belt are seeing strength in farmland values, others are showing weakness. That’s according to the most recent appraisal update conducted by Omaha-based Farm Credit Services of America and eastern Kansas’s Frontier Farm Credit.…