A Farm Region Moving North and East The classic Corn Belt used to be easy to picture: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of ...

Turbulent markets mean difficult planting decisions for farmers. But Carl Peterson of Peterson Farms Seed thinks corn will be ...

Every summer, Mark Van Buren and Catherine Baird closely guard a secret. Their friends and acquaintances try to prod it out of them, but their efforts are futile. And every year the wait is worth it ...

WASHINGTON — In its annual Prospective Plantings report March 28, the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the US Department of Agriculture said farmers intend to increase plantings of soybeans ...

Corn is sticking withing a couple cents of unchanged so far on Monday’s midday, with the USDA reports a dud ahead of the July 4 th holiday later this week. Contracts are up 1 ¼ to 3 cents at midday.

Farmers in the northern Plains are leaning in on crops that look to offer the best chance at profitability in 2025. Among those crops that look to gain the most acres are corn, sugarbeets and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s June 30 crop acreage report contained few surprises. Corn planted acreage was increased by 5% from 2024, while soybean acres were down by 4%, all wheat acreage was ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, March 28 (Reuters) - Unexpectedly light U.S. corn plantings on Thursday likely prevented what could have been ugly end-of-month trading in a corn market where speculators hold ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, June 28 (Reuters) - Market participants frequently have grievances with U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, especially when it comes to acreage and yields, though analysts ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US — First commercially introduced for major field crops in 1996, adoption of genetically engineered (GE) ...

As an update to its March Prospective Plantings report, USDA released its June 30 Acreage report with revised acreage expectations for the upcoming crop year. For the 2021/22 crop year, USDA is ...

WASHINGTON — The US Department of Agriculture in its annual Acreage report on June 30 estimated 2020 corn planted area at 92,006,000 acres, down 5% from the March Prospective Plantings forecast but up ...