The Bureau of Land Management has begun the process of rolling back the Biden Administration’s rule allowing conservation leases on its land. The agency on Wednesday released a proposal to rescind the 2024 Public Lands Rule, which aimed to put conservation uses of land on equal footing with grazing, energy production, mining,…

Producers have increased beef output largely by sending larger cattle to slaughter, while pork farms have boosted production largely by increasing the number and sizes of litters, according to a pair of economists. Beef production for all cattle has grown from 629 pounds per animal in 2000 to 724 pounds…

By Joshua Haiar South Dakota is at the epicenter of this fall’s bird flu season with a total of 134,900 turkeys at three facilities already killed to contain the spread, and reports coming in about thousands more.  The only other state reporting confirmed infections in commercial flocks during the last…

1. Corn, Soybeans Lower in Overnight Trading Corn and soybean futures were lower overnight amid lofty production expectations and favorable weather conditions in the U.S.  The Department of Agriculture last month forecast domestic corn production in the 2025/2026 marketing year that started on Sept. 1 at 16.742 billion bushels on…

By Joe Janzen, Scott Irwin, and Yu-Chi Wang In the past five years, the renewable diesel boom has spurred new demand for soybean oil as a feedstock in production of biofuels. Soybean processors can respond to higher demand like this in multiple ways. Most obviously, they can crush more soybeans…

The Farmers’ Almanac — not to be confused with the similarly titled Old Farmer’s Almanac — has released its long-range forecast for the winter of 2025-26. According to the folks there, the theme for the season is clear: “Chill, Snow, Repeat.” For farmers, ranchers, and rural communities across the country,…