Agricultural lenders report signs of tighter conditions in farm profitability and credit quality in 2025, according to a joint survey conducted by the American Bankers Association and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, or Farmer Mac.

Average retail prices for four of the eight major fertilizers were higher than last month, while prices for the other four were lower during the first week of November 2025, according to sellers surveyed by DTN.

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.

The executive vice president of the Illinois Beef Association says talks of importing Argentinian beef have reignited calls for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (MCOOL).

The U.S. Senate broke a 41-day long stalemate on Monday evening by passing a funding bill to end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

An ag economist says the lack of trade and export data from the USDA is adding to the volatility to beef and pork markets.

In the second quarter of 2025, year-over-year loan demand in the Chicago district exceeded that of the St. Louis district.

ADM, a global leader in innovative solutions from nature, today marked the start of operations for a new carbon capture and storage project at its Columbus, Nebraska Corn Processing Complex, making the complex the largest bioethanol carbon capture facility in the world.

Here are the Top 5 things the DTN Newsroom is tracking for the week of Nov. 9.

President Trump remains focused on beef prices and has called on the Department of Justice to investigate potential anticompetitive practices in the meatpacking industry.

A new report released by Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) projects that employment opportunities will remain strong for new college graduates with degrees in food, agriculture, renewable natural resources and the environment (FARNRE).

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the top Democrat on the Senate Ag Committee, discusses attending the arguments and why she believes the court will strike down the president’s use of a 1977 law to implement his tariffs.

While China had agreed at the meeting between presidents Trump and Xi to buy 440 million bushels (mb) by the end of the year and 25 million metric tons (mmt), or 918 mb, for the following three years, we have not seen that in writing from China and to date only minor soy purchases by China have been reported.

The Department of the Interior has added phosphate and potash to the official Critical Minerals List and the vice president of government affairs at The Fertilizer Institute says it’s good news for America’s farmers.

It’s been forty years since the Food Security Act of 1985 introduced conservation compliance to discourage wetland conversion to cropland (farmdoc daily, October 9, 2025 and October 23, 2025) and 35 years since the 1990 Farm Bill allocated funds for restoration of wetlands under the Wetland Reserve Program.

Today, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) announced continued support for the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act.

A senior director of government relations says tariffs will likely remain part of President Trump’s trade strategy, regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court decision.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a trilogy of decisions for the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in recent months that represents some of the most significant regulatory developments for biomass-based diesel in the program’s history.

USDA will be required to rewrite significant parts of a 2018 genetically engineered foods labeling rule after a federal appeals court reversed a lower court's ruling in a lawsuit that challenged the rule.

As the California Air Resources Board (CARB) prepares to hold a Biofuels and Land Use Change Public Forum tomorrow, a comprehensive new report from Life Cycle Associates, Advances in Estimation of Land Use Change Emissions Associated with Ethanol, shows that CARB’s decade-old estimate of hypothetical indirect land use change (ILUC) associated with ethanol is obsolete and should be revised.

The Farmers for Free Trade Executive Director says he’s hopeful the U.S. Supreme Court this week can help get tariff authority back into the hands of Congress.

There was a modest uptick in U.S. farmer sentiment in October as the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer index of 129 was 3 points higher than September’s reading.

As corn harvest rolls on and yield estimates become yield realities, the data continue to suggest that this year's crop won't be eclipsing any records for bushels per acre.

The American Soybean Association (ASA) welcomes today’s announcement that leading Bangladeshi agribusiness companies have signed letters of intent to significantly increase purchases of U.S. soybeans and soybean meal over the next 12 months.

Politico’s Grace Yarrow and Meredith Lee Hill reported late last week that “the Trump administration plans to roll out an initial payment of up to $12 billion for farmers hurt by the president’s tariff policies once the government shutdown ends, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Seeing Monday's trade come and go was a breath of fresh air as traders seemed to approach the cattle complex with the desire to move the complex higher -- as long as fundamental support suggested so.

More than a decade after whole milk was removed from school cafeterias, Congress is reconsidering whether students should have the freedom to enjoy it – and its many nutrients.

The USDA says it will tap into its contingency fund to deliver November’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.