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While rain may slow the national planting pace, some growers will get a few windows of opportunity. Anxiety about U.S. planting and Brazilian flooding has changed the market trend.

May 15 is the last day for winter wheat growers to enter the ninth annual National Wheat Yield Contest using a new website.

Mostly warm and dry weather over the last two months has robbed surface soil moisture from what was a really good winter precipitation pattern in the Black Sea region. With wheat heading in the south and getting close in the north, the region needs rain badly. Unfortunately...

DTN/Progressive Farmer spoke with AGCO's CEO Eric Hansotia about Precision Planting's newest weed management technology, Fendt Lodge and Fendt's marketing strategies.

A World Bank report looks at ways to mitigate agriculture's contributions to climate change while a pair of upcoming webinars look at conservation in the farm bill and ways U.S. agriculture can lower greenhouse gas emissions.

The market has been full of challenges over the last six weeks, but between improved chain speeds and stronger cash cattle sales some fundamental improvements have taken place as well.

The corn planting season is here and challenges are already emerging as the rains keep coming. December corn prices turned higher and we have to wonder how much potential there may be for more gains ahead.

The Surface Transportation Board recently announced it has, by unanimous vote, implemented the final rule for reciprocal switching.

Agriculture and biofuels interests are trying to intervene in a lawsuit in Europe challenging a European Union law that effectively bans the use of crop-based biofuels to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

Thoughts on why the plans being drawn up by Trump advisors to undo the Federal Reserve's independence are a bad idea.

Heavy rain that has fallen recently over the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil has caused many issues with flooding including injuries, deaths and impact to both the harvest of the summer crop and planting of the winter crop. Heavy rain that continues there for...

Throughout May, Mental Health Awareness Month, DTN/Progressive Farmer will feature stories and columns on the unique mental health challenges that farmers and ranchers face and the resources and support available to assist those who are struggling to find help and hope.

U.S. corn export sales and shipments in million bushels as of the third week of April on the left-hand axis while reported on the right-hand axis are those figures as a percent of the USDA's April WASDE estimates.

It was a busy week with various reports for Canada Agriculture of weekly exports, canola crush and other important information.