Lumo was selected as the Audience Choice Award winner during the AgSharks Pitch Competition at the 2025 Western Growers Annual Meeting. During the competition, startup companies pitch their innovations in front of a live audience of the world’s largest specialty crop producers to win a $250,000 minimum investment  The finalists…

BEIJING/PARIS, Nov 12 (Reuters) – Chicago soybeans rose on Wednesday as traders adjusted positions ahead of the release of official U.S. data on global supply and demand on Friday, the first update in weeks, but prices were capped by a lack of large Chinese purchases. The most-active soybean contract on…

By Ryan Hanrahan Politico’s Aaron Pellish, Meredith Lee Hill, and Marcia Brown reported that “President Donald Trump said (last) Friday that he asked the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into meatpacking companies, which he accused of illegally manipulating beef prices at the expense of beef farmers and consumers.…

By Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Jonathan Coppess, Henrique Monaco, and Carl Zulauf Support from the Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage, county option (ARC-CO) programs for the 2024 crop year are currently being processed and distributed by the Farm Service Agency. Payments from PLC are expected to be…

By Claire Carlson For Wendy Johnson, a livestock and organic grain farmer in Charles City, Iowa, October is usually the time she visits her local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) office.  There, she’ll sit down with one of their employees and go over the practices she implemented on her farm…

By Jeff Beach North Dakota rancher August Heupel has yet to sell any of the beef calves he has raised this year, so far avoiding the recent drop in prices that was fueled in part by comments from President Donald Trump on importing beef.  Heupel is hopeful that prices will…