The Facebook photo caption read something like: “You think we’re having a winter? This is what a real winter looks like! Photo was taken in 1979.” The picture was of a bulldozer trying to clear snow from some railroad tracks. I say “trying” because the situation looked hopeless. Towering drifts on both…
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Tractor Zoom was started in 2017 to help farmers and other decision makers have access to current equipment values and make empowered, data-driven decisions for buying, selling, financing, and insuring heavy equipment. Andy Campbell is Director of Insights at Tractor Zoom. As a past engineer, professor and entrepreneur, Campbell is…
Recognizing the role that four-legged friends often play on family farms and ranches, Farm Bureau launched the Farm Dog of the Year contest several years ago — now a popular feature of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Convention. The winner of the 2025 Farm Bureau Farm Dog of the Year award…
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Frigid temperatures this week likely killed as much as 15% of the winter wheat crop in parts of the U.S. Plains and Midwest, the Commodity Weather Group said on Friday, in an ominous sign for U.S. wheat production. A blast of Arctic…
1. Soybeans, Grains Surge in Overnight Trading Soybean and grain futures surged in overnight trading on concerns about production in the U.S. and South America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month lowered its forecast for domestic soybean output to 4.366 billion bushels on yield of 50.7 bushels an…
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Brazil’s soybean harvest for the 2024/25 season had reached 1.7% of the planted area as of last Thursday, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday, the lowest level for this time of year since the 2020/21 cycle. Work in the fields has…
The scene on Matt Woodward’s farm, north of Freistatt, Missouri, is much like that of any other farm in that southwest part of the state. You see fields of winter wheat and corn, and a few hundred head of cattle. What you don’t see, though, are the miles of drip…
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1. Grains, Soybeans Lower in Overnight Trading Grain and soybean futures were lower in overnight…
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