As a farmer it is never easy to predict what your income is going to be for a given year. There are always differing external factors that are affecting the market and of course the weather always plays a big role in whatever a farmer has to deal with in a given...
Senators Angus King (I-Maine), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently introduced legislation to increase annual funding for the USDA Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development Program (FMD) Program ? key programs...
Leadership of the Senate Agriculture Committee recently urged the Department of Agriculture to expand margin protection tools under the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Citing record high input costs and extreme volatility in commodity prices, Senators Debbie...
Mexico announced that by 2024, they would ban imports of U.S. corn that?s been genetically modified or grown using glyphosate almost two years ago. With how important Mexico?s relationship is to the U.S., ag leaders have been trying to find ways to keep trade strong...
In 2022 there is a lot of data to show what consumers think about the food they eat. That extends to specific foods like pork. One way to see what consumers think about pork is viewing through the lens of social media.Dr. Jayson Lusk, head of Ag Economics at Purdue...
Oral arguments are now complete in the Sackett vs. EPA case before the Supreme Court, but there is still a lot of uncertainty about how to determine whether the federal government has jurisdiction over certain pieces of land.Courtney Briggs, senior director of...
Farmland has teamed up with the National Pork Board, the Iowa Pork Producers Association, and country singer Luke Bryan?s Farm Tour to combat food insecurity across the Midwest as part of Farmland?s Honoring the Heartland Tour. Today, the tour stopped by the Food Bank...
Weather-wise, not much has changed since last week. However, Brazil?s rainy season could potentially cause some issues. Allendale commodity broker Greg McBride provided an update on the latest weather patterns for Brazil and Argentina.McBride also provided an update...
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley held his weekly conference call with reporters on Tuesday and spoke about the current state of his bill that would address foreign ownership of U.S. farmland.Grassley was the original author of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure...
October is pork month in Iowa and across the United States, and there's no better time for us to be talking about the policies that affect pork producers across the country than when the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) recently hosted their legislative action...
