Farm Business - General
USDA is out with its new ag export forecast for both this year and next, and it’s showing exports could hit $173.5 billion in 2021, $4 billion more than 2020, due to higher livestock, poultry and dairy exports.
Each week, Paul Neiffer visits with a farmer or someone involved in the ag industry on “The Farm CPA Podcast,” brought to you by Top Producer.
Farmland values continue to increase and are nearing levels not seen in eight years, according to a recent report from Farm Credit Services of America.
Shipping issues continue to surface. The latest is in China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan container port, which is the third-busiest in the world, and has been partially shut down for six days, with no sign of reopening yet.
Think about the tasks and duties that fill your day. Do you continually put some off? Are there ones you just don’t like? If so, it’s time to delegate.
In 2021, you have the choice to join #FJFieldDays in person or online. Join us at a location near you or login online to find educational content, industry insights and more.
In 2021, you have the choice to join Farm Journal Field Days in person or online.
The dollar lurched lower on Monday, back towards the one-month lows hit last week when it became clear the Fed was in no hurry to tighten policy.
Are you struggling to hire? You’re not alone. The 2021 Farm Journal Labor Survey found most farm employers and ag retailers are finding it harder to fill positions.
Maybe not a wilderness per se, but one big honking tree.
As growers wade through the ever-deepening amount of carbon information available in the marketplace, they are asking for answers to these common questions.
Vermeer Corp. celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the first large round baler by introducing new and innovative products and technologies that reduce on farm labor needs while increasing forage production efficiency.
The shipping snafus are gaining steam, as congestion along one major rail system now causing shippers to halt the hauling of ocean shipping containers from the West Cost. That’s as ocean freight costs jumped 333%.
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says after a year of climbing global food costs, the global food price index saw a decline, yet prices are still up nearly 34% from a year ago.
U.S. farmers’ optimism about current and future conditions are seeing a sharp decline to start the summer, as a monthly gauge of producer sentiments hit the lowest reading since July 2020.
Propane prices are already twice the levels posted a year ago, and as supply concerns rise, propane prices could trend even higher heading into the fall and winter months.
What happens when wild pigs are given 1,000 tons of groceries per day in the form of landfill trash? Expect a ticking time bomb, and quite possibly, a $50 billion blow to the entire U.S. pork industry.
Michael Swanson says it’ll take fleet turnover to bring great change to gasoline consumption, and he says two factors will drive that adoption—federal policy and battery technologies.
A White House listening session with vice president Kamala Harris focused on broadband connectivity. Missouri farmer Meagan Kaiser was one of six participants and spoke to the struggle for farmers and rural businesses.
The United Nations issued a warning this week as world food prices are rising at their fastest pace in a decade. Global food prices have risen for 12 consecutive months and now sit at their highest level since 2011.
The head of Tyson Foods, Dean Banks, is stepping down after less than a year on the job. The company announced Donnie King is the new CEO, which makes him the fifth CEO of Tyson in the last five years.
Farming success is chained to the highest premium paid across a long series of benchmarks, and Matt Brechwald’s farm tale, split between dirt and the digital world, firmly fits the mold.
Would you buy one? Check out what farmers had to say after Ford’s F-150 Lightning announcement.
The world’s largest meat producer was the latest victim of a cyberattack. And as the food chain relies more on automation and less on manual labor, cyberattacks may be a rising risk for the food chain.
One week after a cyberattack shut down meat packing plants in three countries, U.S. officials seized the cryptocurrency payment that was made during the Colonial Pipeline hack less than a month earlier.
Many economic factors are at play in the ag industry, everything from stimulus money to higher commodity prices to historically low interest rates. How will these issues impact your farm?
Farm Journal has announced that a #FarmONTM Benefit Concert will be presented in partnership with the National FFA Foundation on Thursday, August 26, at Frahm Farmland in Colby, KS.
Multi-story hog farrowing and finishing buildings, often in megaplexes with tens of thousands of pigs in China. And according to John Phipps, there may be some benefits to the buildings.
A big concern for dairy farmers is preventing foot and mouth disease (FMD) on farms. Thanks to new technology, there’s now a real-time test that could get farmers answers quickly.
“I like to say you’re going to have to have a permit to do normal farming decisions,” he told Chip Flory, host of AgriTalk.