Soybeans were sharply lower to start the week, and nearby soybean contracts were actually limit down on Monday.  The market is concerned that the trade meeting with China could be delayed beyond its late March scheduled date amid the ongoing issues in the Gulf region.  While Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent tried to downplay the […]

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The conflict in the Middle East is driving up ag input prices. Southwest Minnesota corn and soybean grower Bryan Biegler says he applied all his phosphate and potassium for 2026 last fall. “Locked in my nitrogen about a day after the war started. I use anhydrous, and at that time it was $905 a ton […]

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The blizzard that moved through Wisconsin Sunday and Monday dumped enough wet, heavy snow to collapse a farm building. Anthony Knorn with Junion Homestead Farm near Casco, Wisconsin, tells Brownfield that around two feet of snow was too much for the holding area between the main dairy barn and the milking parlor. “A couple of […]

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The founder of ForgeBee says lab-grown honeybees may be a key to the future of food production. Gene Robinson, who’s also a professor at the University of Illinois, says colony collapse and other factors continue to contribute to the decline in wild honeybee populations. “One-third of our nation’s food supply depends on honeybees.”  He says, […]

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