What Happened Many agricultural commodities have tradeable futures and options contracts. Few industries offer an avenue to manage risk and opportunities the way the various exchanges for agriculture do. Today, we’ll use corn as an example. Corn is traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. Traders have the ability to…

By Zach Wendling LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen enacted a new burn ban Tuesday for central and western Nebraska through May 10 in response to continued “very dry” conditions. The new executive order rescinds a previous mandate last week prohibiting permitted burns statewide through the end of the month. With the new…

By Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, and Carl Zulauf The USDA’s harvest-season estimates were for 2024 U.S. corn and soybean yields to be above trend because of good to excellent conditions throughout most of the growing season. Those yield estimates were revised down following the 2024 harvest season, with final U.S. yields…

By Tom Polansek and Savyata Mishra April 29 (Reuters) – China, the world’s biggest pork consumer, is no longer a viable market for top U.S. pork processor Smithfield Foods SFD.O due to retaliatory tariffs by Beijing, company executives said on Tuesday. The disruption shows how the tariff war escalated by U.S. President Donald Trump is upending…

It’s normally a two-person job to align a grain auger to the grain bin fill opening: one person on top of the grain bin giving hand signals to the tractor operator below. What do you do when there is no second person to help? The exhausting process begins with backing…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the proverb observes, which explains why your brand preference generally influences your view of tractor beauty. There are a great many examples of aesthetically pleasing tractors. The Farmall 1206, the Deere 30 Series, the Massey-Harris 101, the Minnie-Mo UDLX, and the Oliver…