The time between Christmas until after the New Year holiday really is a peculiar time for the markets.

The U.S. is largely self-sufficient in agricultural food production, supported by a well-developed storage and interstate trade system. However, extreme weather events put increasing pressure on agriculture, potentially impacting the country’s ability to provide food for its growing population and underscoring the importance of maintaining a resilient food supply chain.

A market analyst says he’s cautiously optimistic that demand for U.S. corn could improve from 2025.

As the 4th largest export market for U.S. commodities, EU regulations can have significant impact on American production, particularly on industries with a high volume of export sales to member countries.

Iowa farmers warned Monday that the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will sharply raise health insurance costs in 2026, forcing painful tradeoffs that could slow farm growth, strain rural hospitals and push some producers out of business altogether.

The U.S. agricultural export scenario has experienced a transformation in 2025, with diversification of export destinations emerging as an important factor for both the corn and soybean markets

What makes this study distinct relative to other research is that it is not about what farmers think about products. Instead, our focus is on how producers make decisions – how they manage farms, how they buy and how today’s major pressures shape those decisions.

Congress has approved legislation allowing schools to serve whole milk.

Sometime in the next few months, President Donald Trump will appoint a successor to Jerome Powell, whose term as Federal Reserve Board chair expires next May. It's tempting to think that a Trump-appointed chair will give farmers, ranchers and other business borrowers sharply lower interest rates. Tempting, but very possibly wrong.

Wisconsin has been able to prevent high path avian influenza in its dairy herds, until now.

The Trump administration unveiled a $12 billion Farm Bridge Assistance aid package to compensate farmers impacted by market and commodity market losses. House Ag Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig, D-Minn., said farmers are in need of economic support, but added "the administration has called this a bridge. Where's the bridge? This is more like a circle."

In this post, we use data from Wave 15 (November 2025) of the Gardner Food and Agricultural Policy Survey (GFAPS) to examine how consumers think about the DGA. Specifically, we ask consumers to what extent they agree with some of the key recommendations from the 2020-2025 DGA and who they believe is and should be involved in developing the guidelines.

USDA’s new $12 billion relief package is welcome news across farm country. These payments will help farm families cover critical operating costs, keep equipment running and secure financing for next season with a little less uncertainty hanging over their heads.

This case study illustrates how the Federal budget process can be circumvented, calling into question its fiscal integrity and usefulness.

An Iowa farmer who serves on the United Soybean Board is still concerned about margins despite the government’s plan to issue bridge payments in early 2026.

Given how significant corn imports are to the Western Canadian feed grain markets and how vastly different the situation is from four short years ago, I wanted to provide an update and a brief outlook.

Compared to a year ago, economic uncertainty surrounding U.S. trade policy is much lower, steadying the broader outlook for 2026.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says the US could withdraw from its tri-lateral trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, alongside U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced a $700 million Regenerative Pilot Program to help American farmers adopt practices that improve soil health, enhance water quality, and boost long-term productivity, all while strengthening America’s food and fiber supply.

A clipper system that moved through on Dec. 9-10 was a strong one, producing a band of heavy snow across the north and strong winds.

Retail fertilizer prices tracked by DTN for the first week of December 2025 continue to show most are slightly higher.

The USDA tightened the balance sheet for corn while leaving soybean and wheat ending stocks unchanged.

Part 2 of this Market Intel series walks through these remaining categories, uninsured crops, value-loss crops, trees/bushes/vines, on-farm storage losses and milk losses, and identifies where USDA’s assigned-value approach provides needed support, as well as areas where the methodology may limit payments or create administrative challenges for producers.

Most retail-sized trees take seven to 10 years to grow, leaving growers exposed to multi-year weather volatility, biological pressures and labor shortages in ways most specialty crops are not.

The Trump administration has announced its financial aid package for farmers.

Commodity farmers should know by the end of December exactly how much they will receive in economic aid from the Trump administration from the $12 billion package that should be distributed by the end of February, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Monday.

American Farmland Trust (AFT) strongly endorses the bipartisan, bicameral Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act (press releases here and here).

Recent changes to the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) methodology for H-2A workers have revived state minimum wages as the required wage for workers in many states.