Agricultural Cooperatives in the United States: How Does the South Stack Up?

An End to the Disruption of Two Key Weekly Federal Crop Reports

Total Meat Supplies End Year on High Note

Don’t Ignore Cow Size When Comparing Calf Weaning Weights

Top Five Food Safety and Quality New Year’s Resolutions for 2026

Soybean Exports Continue to Lag

Tamale Time!

Broiler Revenue Drivers – Part 2

Federal Estate Tax and Gift Tax Limits Announced For 2026

Trade War Fallout: The Collapse of U.S. Spirit Exports to Canada in 2025

2026 Wheat Outlook

Milk Prices Falling Fast

Management Priority #1

California Defines Ultra-processed Foods

Administration Providing Economic Assistance Payments to Struggling Farmers

What Happened When the CME Went Down? A Look at the First Hour in Corn and Soybean Futures

When Plants Stop, Spreads Change: Processing Shocks and the Beef Live-to-Cutout Price Spread

Peanut Crop Insurance: Differences in Sales Closing Dates and Cancellation Dates Across Regions 

Does Agritourism Hinder or Promote Farmland Preservation?

Recent Tariff Exceptions and Trade Agreements Aimed to Reduce Food Costs

How Southern Row-Crop Producers Fared in 2025

The Impact of Tyson’s Closure on Beef Slaughter Capacity Utilization

“No lowballs, I know what I’ve got…”

Reiterating Agrifood Safety Education to Further Reduce Southern U.S. Farm Markets’ Product Waste

Sweet Potatoes: A Southern Crop for Thanksgiving

A COF Report Comes Out Among Other Headlines

Cash Rents for Irrigated Cropland Across the Mid-South

The 5 Practices of Boardroom Excellence

Disaster Assistance for 2025: Is it Coming or Not? 

November 2025 WASDE Report is Relatively Quiet Despite Surprises in Production and Exports

Cull Cows Defy Seasonality

Consider the Risks When Taking a Residual Fertility Deduction

Christmas Trees: A Festive Specialty Crop in the Southeast

Grain Sorghum Exports to China at Their Lowest in Over a Decade

What WASDE Days Do to Grain Futures: Intraday Volatility Patterns You Can Plan Around

Some Special Prices for Turkey Day

Understanding Interval-Based Enrollment Risk in PRF: How Interval Selection Strategies Can Impact Protection Across the South

Court Asked to Overturn Registrations for Enlist One and Enlist Duo

A Reminder That All Three Parts of the Producer Safety Net Matter

Soybeans Stage a Comeback: Chinese Demand and Biofuel Growth Lead the Way

Cattle Auction Prices Follow Futures Prices Lower

Contract Grazing: A Flexible Option for Row Crop Producers

Land, Power, and Computing

Recent Trade Tensions Cause U.S. Beef to Lose Ground in China, Spurs Gains for Australia and Brazil

Will the 2025 Peanut Crop Set a New Record?

A Wave of Milk and Slumping Prices

Peanut Crop Insurance: What’s Available and What’s New Under the OBBB Act

Recent Updates to the H-2A Program

If Crop Returns are so Bad, Why Do Farmers Keep Planting?

Demand Outlook for a Record U.S. Corn Crop

Beef Imports to the Rescue?

Tracking Technology Adoption on Southern Farms

Southeastern U.S. Specialty Crop Sector Competitiveness: Moving the Needle

Can the U.S. Move from Multilateral to Bilateral Trade Agreements?

Potential Market Impacts of Missing a WASDE Report During Government Shutdowns

A Check in on the Beef Cutout

Margin Crop Insurance Available Across the Southern Region 

Asking the Right Questions: Fulfilling Your Duty on the Cooperative Board of Directors

Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program and Crop Insurance Indemnities

How Brazil’s Rise in Global Cotton Markets Impacts U.S. Exports

Cull Cow Prices See Just a Little Seasonal Decline

Three Considerations When Comparing the Cost of Buying Bred Heifers to the Cost of Developing Them

Farm Financial Stress and Suicide Risk: Red Flags Every Community Should Know

China’s Agricultural Imports from U.S. and Brazil Decline in 2025 – But the U.S. Faces Sharper Losses

2025/26 Rice Market Outlook

The Chicken or The Egg…. Productivity in 2026  

The H-2B Visa Program and the Food Sector

Latest Proposed Dicamba Labels Move to Temperature-Based Cutoffs

Threat Looms and Urgency Grows as New World Screwworm Inches Closer to the Texas-Mexico Border

China’s Pivotal Role in the Global Cotton Market

Feedlot Placements and Marketings Down Sharply from Year Ago

Understanding the H-2A Labor Affordability Issue

Federal Estate Taxes, Succession Planning and the One Big Beautiful Bill

Rising Imports and Soaring Costs: Dual Pressures Squeeze U.S. Fresh Produce Growers

Major Increase in Corn Production Expected Across the South

Turkeys – A 2025 Holiday Outlook

Risk Management

Financial Literacy for All: Addressing Disparities Through Targeted Education

Measuring the Revenue Risk Reduction of Supplemental Crop Insurance Policies

Sorghum’s Big Crop, Bigger Risks

Productivity In Cattle, Hogs, and Lambs

Tracking Chapter 12 Bankruptcies in the South: 2015 – 2025 Trends and Identifying On-Farm Stress

Clearing the Air on Manure: What the New Ruling Means for Agriculture

Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade in 2025: Exploring the Recent August Forecasts 

Marketing Challenges from Storage Capacity and Excess Supply

Meat Prices After Labor Day

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt for Quarter 1 of 2025

The Labor-Technology Shift for Smaller Southeastern U.S. Specialty Crop Growers: Industry Insights

Why So Much Concern in the Countryside?

The Mississippi River is Set to Fall to Severe Levels for the Fourth Year in a Row

Fewer Cattle on Feed But, Some Questions

What Keeps You Up at Night? Understanding Stress and Risk in Production Agriculture

Instacart, Hello Fresh, DoorDash, and CSA 

How is the Consumer Price Index Impacted by Trade Talks

Next Year’s Cotton Market Possibilities

Tariffs and Trade in the Lamb Market

Hired Farm Labor Trends

High Voltage, Higher Stakes: When Data Demands Your Dirt

Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Investment in Diversification of Southern Agriculture

USDA Projects Largest Corn Supply in History

Ground Beef Now or Calves in 2026?

USDA’s Livestock Risk Protection Program Use Keeps Increasing

New Federal Law Simplifies Payment Limitations

U.S.–Brazil Beef Trade at a Crossroads

Examining August FSA Data to Forecast Final Cotton Acreage

Dairy Semen Market Trends

Cowherd Expansion is Not the Only Way to Capitalize on a Strong Calf Market

Challenge to California’s Hen Housing Laws

Addressing Questions about Additional Base Acres in the One Big Beautiful Bill

New Marketing Assistance Loan Program Rates Established for 2026-2031 Crop Years

Thoughts on Two Big Cattle Reports

Who’s Buying Farmland? A Look at Mississippi’s Agricultural Land Market

Nonprofit Organizations and Community Engagement: Bridging Gaps in Local Support

Will Brazil Close the Quality Gap with U.S. Beef in Japan?

Planted Peanut Acres at 34 Year High

Any Relief in Sight for Consumers?

Who’s Driving the Broiler Revenue Bus? Part 1of 3

Using Cooperatives to Enhance Competitive Advantage

Supplemental Disaster Relief Program Sign-up Announced

Winter Canola Expansion in the Southern U.S: A Renewable Fuel Opportunity

Beef x Dairy Placements

Founding Farmer

Preserving America’s Heritage Crops: Low Consumer Awareness Makes Market-Based Conservation Challenging

U.S. Agriculture Could Face New Challenges with President Trump’s Proposed Tariffs on Japan and South Korea

Monthly Variability in U.S. Cotton Exports

Hog Prices Hit 3-Year Highs

Recent Trends in Farm Operating Costs

Two Months In: Assessing the Movement on FDA’s Plan to “Phase Out” Synthetic Dyes

Sign-up for Natural Disaster Relief Beginning Soon

Market Impact of the June 30 Acreage and Grain Stocks Reports

Beef Slaughter Capacity Utilization

Timber Market Remains Sluggish Amid Weakened Housing Starts

Why aren’t PFAS compounds in land applied biosolids prohibited by EPA? 

Opportunity for Increased U.S. Peanut Oil Production

Sugarbeet and Sugarcane Production and Farm Trends 

Fewer Marketings, Tighter Beef Supplies

Historic and Current Rice Planting Progress in the Southern United States

Who Needs Attorneys When You Have AI?

Dealing With Uncertainty in Agriculture

June WASDE Delivers Sharp Reduction in U.S. Rice and Cotton Crops

Cattle and Beef Prices Push Higher

Cotton Crop Insurance: Key Dates Producers Need to Know

Bridging Disconnection: Community Program Participation and Perceived Impact Among U.S. Youth

U.S. Pecan Trade and Tariff Outlook

How can crop marketing and crop insurance go together?

A Little More Insight on Meat Trade 

Broiler Litter as a Nutrient Source for Crop Production

Understanding the Section 199A Tax Deduction

Just How Bipartisan are Farm Bills?

Seasonal Movements of the Monthly December Corn Futures Price 

Tallow and Lard

Working With Your Ag Lender

High-Tech Tools, Real-World Problems: Farmers’ Views on Mechanization Challenges 

Will a New Trade War Impact the Two Leading Distilled Spirits States? What’s at Stake for Tennessee and Kentucky Exports?

The 2025 Sugar Market Domestic Supply and Outlook 

From Grass to Gains: Why Stockpiling Bahiagrass Pays Off

Deer Impact on Crop Producers: A Buck’s Buck Effect

EPA Publishes Final Insecticide Strategy

Much Needed Producer Assistance in the House Reconciliation Bill

Scope of Chinese Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Cotton Exports

Working Less on Friday!

Analyzing the Upside and Downside Risk in PRF Policy Selection: Timing Mismatch

What is Crop Protection Legislation

Global Market Prospects for U.S. Long-grain Rice for the Upcoming Marketing Year

Recap of the May WASDE for U.S. Grains

Screwworms, Part II

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

Defining Harm. Proposed Changes for the Endangered Species Act

STAX and PLC: A Tale of Price Risk Protection in Two Markets

Managing Crop Markets When Trade Disrupts Prices

Cattle Prices Hit New Highs and Carcass Grading Trends Over Time

Understanding the Labor Needs of Livestock Producers

30+ Years of Empowering Southern Farmers: The Impact of AgrAbility

Tomato Trade Wars: How the Suspension Agreement with Mexico Shapes the U.S. Market

Projections for 2025 Cotton Acreage

Volatility and Fundamentals

Relating Crop and Livestock H-2A Labor Decisions to AEWR and Sectoral Wage Gaps

Members Are the Key to Cooperative Success

Does it Have to Be All or Nothing in Farm Policy?

Incrementally Pricing Corn into a Futures Market Rally

Fewer Heifers in Feedlots

Breakeven Curves Under Different Midsouth Rental Agreements

Rising State Minimum Wages in Specialty Crop-Producing States: Insights for Fresh Produce Growers

High Tariffs Could Halt U.S. Beef Exports to China

April WASDE Updates Old Crop Estimates Before Shifting Focus to New Crop Forecast in May

2025 National Feeder and Stocker Receipts and Heifer Percentage

Cropland Rents

A Steak by Any Other Name: How States Are Shaping the Future of Cultivated Meat

STAX and PLC: Should Cotton Producers Have to Choose?

Major Players in US Trade and Grain Market Volatility

Cattle Inventory and Beef Production

Before Starting a Farm Transfer: A Farm Family Pre-Agreement

Four Ways for Farmers to Avoid Estate Taxes in 2025

Understanding Trade Barriers: Tariff and Non-Tariff Measures

Key Takeaways of the 2025 Prospective Plantings Report and Revisiting Reliability

Record Cow Prices!  It’s Not April Fools! 

Talking about Transitioning our Farms and Ranches

Understanding Renewable Energy Agreements: Easement, Option, and Lease Phases Explained

Signup for Economic Assistance Announced… Producers Turn Their Focus to Physical Disaster Assistance

Estimating Corn Planted Acres for 2025

Chickens Before Eggs

Cotton Crop Insurance: Navigating Planting Dates Deadline Variations Across Regions

Developing Rural Economic Opportunities Through Agritourism

Rethinking Tariffs: Tequila Shows There’s More to Imports Than Competition

Estimating the Impact of Low Mississippi River Levels on Soybean Basis in the Midsouth

COF Report Amid Declining Prices

Understanding Patronage Distribution of Farm Credit System Association

Why Are Cooperatives Prominent in U.S. Agriculture?

Is Now the Time for Tax-Deferred Farm Savings Accounts?

March WASDE Estimates and Note on Inclusion of Trade Policy

Depopulation as a Tool for Highly Contagious Animal Disease Control 

Price Risk Always Exists, Even in a Bull Market

Who’s Buying this Round? Insights from Florida to Help Breweries Reach Consumers

Market Showdown: U.S. Beef Faces New Challenges in Japan Amid Brazilian Reentry

Changes in Relative Financial Risk for Corn, Cotton, and Soybeans in 2024 and 2025

UPDATED March 4, 2025…..End of the Line for Corporate Transparency Act Requirements?

Can Broiler Eggs Help Table Egg Prices?

Death and …

Addressing PFAS Biosolid Contamination on Farmland

With Sales Closing Dates Looming, Supplemental Crop Insurance Decisions Are Upon Us

Late Season Indicators for 2024/25 U.S. Cotton Production

February Cattle on Feed 

Wheat Alternatives: Maximizing Profitability in a Tough Market

Drones Flying over my Property: What can I do?

Do Major U.S. Ag Trading Partners Apply Tariff Reciprocity?

How Might Trade Disputes Affect the U.S. Peanut Industry?

Fewer Cattle on Feed?

Managing Through Tough Times

Be Mine: FDA bans food dye used in popular candies

Why Haven’t Land Values Reacted to Reduced Farm Profits?

Midsouth Rice Production and Trade Update for 2024/25 

Increasing Size in Broilers – A Long-Term Trend

Calculating Equitable Crop Share Leases for Rice in the Mid-South

Why Grocery Inflation Still Feels High

How Do U.S. Tariff Rates Compare to Other WTO Countries?

Using 2025 Cost of Production Forecasts to Assist in Marketing Row Crops

Fewer Cows in 2025

Fertilizer Prices: What Can We Expect in 2025?

Evaluating the Cooperative Manager

Why the Current Economic Downturn is So Troublesome

Flat Global Demand and Increased Brazil Production Provide Challenges for U.S. Cotton Prices

Placements Lower Than Expected in January Cattle-On-Feed Report

Short-term Heating Fuel Decisions Facing Commercial Poultry Growers 

Where Does My Food Come From? What Google Searchers Want to Know

Estimated Total Economic Impacts from Trade Policy Shifts-Worst-Case Scenario Revisited

Export Challenges Drive Down Sorghum Premiums

New Record High Prices

Variety Selection Resources

Duty to Child Trespassers

ARC and PLC Enrollment Starts Next Tuesday

Corn Price Reaction to Changes in USDA WASDE Projections 

Fed Cattle Weights and Herd Expansion

After Hurricane Helene: How to claim timber casualty losses and defer taxes on salvage timber sales

2024 Brought Unprecedented Zoonotic Disease Control Challenge As Well As Far-Reaching Questions of Legal Authority  

2025 U.S. Agricultural Trade Outlook: Navigating Uncertainty Amid Policy Shifts

Record High Global Soybean Stocks

Four Questions the 2025 Cattle Market Will Need to Answer

Good Farm Management Starts with Good Records

D.C. Circuit Rules that CEQ Lacks Rulemaking Authority

Good News for U.S. Producers… Now What?

2024 Beef Cattle Market Review

What to Bring to Your Accountant

Harnessing Workforce Development and Well-being in Communities

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

Christmas Dinner!

Business Structure Basics

Cooperative Grocers Positioning Strategically to Deliver Community Value

Congress Poised to Deliver Vital Aid to the Countryside?

2025 Crop Planning

Dairy Rollercoaster

H-2A Wage Violations Against Workers Hired by Farm Labor Contractors

Preparing Consumers for Anticipated Soaring Pecan Prices During Holiday Season

State-Level Effects of Potential Trade Policy Shifts on Southern U.S. Agriculture

A Statistically Lousy Year for Cotton Prices

Rising Prices at Year End

Benefits of Debt Consolidation to Improve Short-Term Liquidity

Federal Estate Tax and Gift Tax Limits Announced For 2025

It’s Time for the Panic Button

Peanut Stocks Expected to Remain Low in 2025

A Look at the Livestock Forage Disaster Program 

Upcoming Deadline: Beneficial Ownership Information 

Sifting through the Rice Market: Rising Supplies and Growing Competition

An Old Menace

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Peanut Farmers

Preparing for the (Camo) Season

What a Difference an Election Can Make

Can Yield Upside Risk Eclipse Price Downside Risk Protection in ECO Crop Insurance?

A Look at the Hog Market

Profitability According to Farmers

Urban Agriculture in the South: Addressing Food Insecurity and Social Inequality through Community Gardens

What to Expect from India’s Removal of the Export Ban on White Non-Basmati Rice

Changes to Supply and Demand Estimates in the November WASDE

Feeder Cattle Futures Prices

Census of Agriculture Production Expenses for Southern States

Making Effective Board Leaders in Your Cooperative

Election Impacts on Current Ag Committee Members

Corn Market Outlook: Higher Ending Stocks, Steady Demand, and Price Pressure

Egg Prices Are On The Rise….Again

Addressing the Gap in Participation Between Whole Farm Revenue Protection and Other MPCI Products

Opportunities for Southeastern-grown Value-added Mango Products: Conversations with fresh-cut produce professionals

Trade Policy Scenarios after the U.S. Presidential Election and What They Could Mean for Southern U.S. Agriculture

Global Wheat Shortfalls Could Signal Bullish Potential for U.S. Wheat

Fewer Heifers on Feed

The Long Term Economic Struggles of Southern Cotton Farmers

What Other State Decisions Can Tell Us About Right-to-Farm Laws

Economic Assistance for the 2024 Crop Year Starting to Take Shape

October WASDE Report Decreases U.S. Cotton Production, Mill Use and Exports

An Alternative Big Mac

2024 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

Post-Emergent Dicamba Likely Unavailable in 2025, Controversial Beyond Then

Increase in Cost of Production Contributing to Trade Deficit

Recap of the October WASDE for Grains and Soybeans

Almost Time to Think Turkey

When is an Hour of Operator Labor, Not Just an Hour of Operator Labor?

Will the U.S. Supreme Court Be Asked to Send EPA Back To the Drawing Board on CAFO Permits?  

USDA Farm Income Projections… Misused and Abused

A Soybean Pricing Alternatives at Harvest

The Three Ps of Herd Expansion: Profit, Pasture and Patience

Preparing For Your Preparer

The Food Insecurity Challenge: A Snapshot of the Southern U.S.

Shifting Winds: The Changing Landscape of Cotton Production and Exports in the U.S. and Brazil (Part 2)

Brazil Expected to Continue Dominance of Global Soybean Exports

Seasonal Price Trends & Inventory

Increase in PRF Adoption in the Southern Region

Why You Should Run for Your Cooperative Board

The Losses are Mounting…and are Projected to get Worse

Low River Levels on the Mississippi River: Not the Three-peat We Want

Cattle on Feed and Record High August Fed Cattle Weights

Contract Broilers Growers Could See Changes in Their Pay Arrangements

Beekeeping Operations and Revenue Sources in Alabama 

USDA Projects a Widening Trade Deficit for Fiscal Year 2025

Minimal Price Gains Amid Record Yields: A Tough Outlook for Grain Producers in 2024

Summer Slide

Empowering the Next Generation: The Perks of Paying Your Farm Kids

Cell Cultured Meat

Staying Positive While We Wait for a Farm Bill

Lower Interest Rates Create Opportunities for Managing Debt on the Farm

Inventories, Weather, and Local Hay Markets

National Corn Yields and Deviation from Trendline Over Time

Hunting Leases and Rural Land

Shifting Winds: The Changing Landscape of Cotton Production and Exports in the U.S. and Brazil (Part 1)

Irrigation Water Pumping Costs in the Mid-South

Feeder Heifer Imports from Mexico and U.S. Herd Rebuilding

Land Ownership and the Preservation of Family Farm Legacies 

Timeline of the ARC and PLC Programs: Why Are Payments Received a Year Later?

Are the Pre-Season Polls (Crop Production Reports) Accurate?

U.S. Beef Imports: A Quick Look at Recent Trends

To Store or Not to Store?  Old Crop Exit Strategies 

How has the Pandemic Changed the House Price Landscape in the South?

The Economic Toll of Animal Diseases on U.S. Soybean Exports

Can I deduct timber loss from natural disasters?

The Relationship Between Formula and Negotiated Cash Fed Cattle Prices

The Week that Followed the August WASDE Report

Making Cooperatives More Relevant and Exciting

If It’s Not Time to Hit the Panic Button… We Are Getting Close

Farmers’ Internet Access Improving but Still Lacking

Finding the GOAT

Storing corn or soybeans: what is the futures market incentivizing?

Changes in Average Age of Producers in Southern States, 2017 and 2022

Challenges for U.S. Fruits and Vegetables (Part 2)

Commodity Program Payment Limits, Farm Entity Creation, and Implications for the Next Farm Bill

Dairy Cow Slaughter Posts Strong Rebound

GDP and the Farm Economy

Texas v. New Mexico

Will We See a New Farm Bill This Year?

Digging into Dirt: Southern States Adoption of No-Till and Reduced Tillage Practices 

Cattle and Drought in the South and Southeast 

Review of 2023 STAX Payments and Implications for Price Risk Management in Cotton

In Landmark Ruling SCOTUS Overturns ‘Chevron’ Deference

Understanding the Growing U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit (Part 2): What’s Happening with Imports?

Hiring H-2A Workers through Farm Labor Contracts

Growing On-feed Inventory, Lower Placements, and No Sign of Heifer Retention

Having a Way Out

Department of Labor Finalizes New H-2A Regulations

Trade Policy Also Important in Next Farm Bill

Using Risk Preference to Inform Crop Insurance Decision-Making

Retail Meat Prices Ease a Little

The Net Short Hedge Fund Position in ICE Cotton Futures

Natural Disaster Insurance and Markets Under Pressure: New Challenges to Managing Risk in Rural Communities

Challenges for U.S. Fruits and Vegetables

The Disparity Between Crop Prices Received and Input Prices Paid

Falling Corn Prices, Higher Calf Prices

Revenue Protection Weighted Average Coverage Levels by County and Crop

Is the Current CSA Model Sustainable? A Lesson from Korea

Estate Transition Planning

New Record High Cattle Prices

Changes to Planted Acreage for Southern Crops in the June Acreage Report

Transitioning to Organic in the South

Understanding the Growing U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit: The Fall in Exports

Liquidity and Working Capital a Priority

The Relative Value of Bred Cows

Current Farm Bill Negotiations for the Marketing Assistance Loan Program

Animal Ag in the “Farm, Food and National Security Act of 2024”

Government Incentives for Agricultural Generational Transfer? 

Incorporating Conservation Practices into Leases

A Cattle On Feed Preview

June WASDE Report Projects Increases to Wheat Prices, Decreases to Cotton Prices

Product of the U.S.A. Rule and Trade Implications

China lifts ban on Australian beef: Is there cause for concern in the U.S.?

Farmland Value Trends in South

From Byproduct to Beef: Revolutionizing Cattle Feeding for Sustainability and Savings in the Southeast

Ag Export Percentages: A Focus on Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat

Population Change in Southern United States

Examining Farm Bill Base Acre Proposals

Building Equity

Humanely Processed Chicken May Bring a Premium Price

Corn Yields and 2024 Projected Linear Trendline Yields in Southern States

HPAI in Dairy Cattle:  Is Pasteurization Dairy’s Only Reliable Protection? 

U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Supply

Understand the Implications of a Price Slide When Buying and Selling Cattle

Fewer Cattle on Feed, Higher Prices

Battlelines Are Being Drawn: Comparing Current Farm Policy Proposals

If You are Following the Conversation about Reference Prices… Here are a Few Facts 

Management and Marketing Implications of Deforestation-Free Soybeans in the Southern Region

Steer Dressed Weight: Recent Counter-Seasonal Behavior and its Long-Term Growth Trend

Analyzing World and U.S. Sugar Price Dynamics

Why Don’t We Start More Cooperatives?

Unpacking the Success of U.S. Beef in Japan

Cover-crop Acres up in Texas, Stagnant Across Rest of the South

Diamond Rings for Old Things

May WASDE Projects Higher Supplies and Lower Prices Again in 2024 

Southern Apples: The Long History of Production and the New Era of Marketing

Paved with Good Intentions: Unintended Impacts of Farm Bill Payment Limitations

New Poultry Contracting Regulation’s Potential Effects on Broiler Growers

Mixed Impacts of H5N1 in Dairy Cows on Dairy and Beef Cattle Markets

Public Information and the Variability of U.S. Cotton Production Forecasts

A Thirst for Change: The Rise of Reclaimed Water Regulations in the U.S.

Trade’s Importance to Southern Agriculture

The Importance of Rented Cropland to Mid-South Agriculture

Butterfat Continues to be a Major Driver of Milk Value

Cash Grain Contracts and When to Use Them

US Supreme Court Finds Texas Landowners Can Pursue Takings Claim

Texas Farmers Sue USDA for Alleged Discrimination

Will Interest Rates Decrease in 2024?

Milk Cows in the Southeast 

An Early Look at 2024 Production Expectations for U.S. Wheat and Sorghum

Chasing the Benefits of Agrivoltaics

Navigating U.S. Sugar Imports From 70 Countries

The Costs and Benefits of Mechanization: A Look at the Dairy Sector

Data Delivers Market Transparency, For Now

December 2024 Corn Option Premium Movement from October 2023 to April 2024 

A View of Commercial Banks in the Southern Region

Leveling the Playing Field for U.S. Agricultural Producers

2024 Prospective Plantings for Southern Ag Today States

Prospective Plantings, Feed Prices and Implications for Feeder Cattle Markets

Corn and Cotton Prevented Planting Decisions 

What is the Principal Agent problem, and should I be concerned about it in my local cooperative?

Global Market Prospects for U.S. Long-grain Rice for the Upcoming Marketing Year

Tax Considerations of Income and Expenses from Nontimber Forest Products

The Now and Later of Feedlot Inventories

The 2024 Sugar Market Domestic Supply and Outlook

Part 2: Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in US Specialty Crop Economics: Navigating Market Dynamics, Labor Challenges, and Global Realities

Higher Reference Prices Are Critical… But So Is Increasing Payment Limits

Census Reveals Tobacco Farms Disappearing from Southern Agriculture

Incentives Help Solar Battle Electricity Cost Increases on Commercial Poultry Farms

Peanut Yield Trends

Foreign Ownership Law Violates the U.S. Constitution???

What’s the Lay of the Land in U.S. Organics Trade?

Planting Date: The Need for Speed

Cow and Cow-Beef Prices Booming

Prospects for Sorghum Premiums in the Upcoming Season: A Forecast Analysis

EPA Made 2023 Commitment To CAFO Permitting Reform But No Action Evident to Date 

ARC and PLC Deadline TOMORROW!

Tax Reporting for Crop Insurance

Record Feeder Cattle Prices

A Quick Look at the 2024 Rice Market

The Corporate Transparency Act and Your (Potential) Duty to Register Your Business

U.S. Fresh Produce Availability

Reforming the H-2A Guest Farmworker Visa Program: Sectoral Coverage Expansion and Workers’ Path to Permanent Residency

2022 Census of Agriculture: Review of Southern Hay Prices

U.S. Cotton Export and Global Market Share Declined in 2023

What is a New Generation Cooperative?

Demand for Raising Reference Prices Not Hidden Very Well

Using the Share Rent Equivalent Model to Determine Farmland Value

Heifers on Feed and Feedlot Demographics

USDA Outlook Forum and Planted Acres

Confronting Legal Deserts in Rural America

Panama Canal Traffic Delays Threaten Southern Ag Global Supply Chains

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Component Price

Ag Census Reveals Fewer Beef Cow Farms

Soybean Option Strategies

Part 1: Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in US Specialty Crop Economics: Navigating Market Dynamics, Labor Challenges, and Global Realities

Farm Bill Fault Lines: Why is the Farm Bill Debate Stuck in Neutral?

What is the TN Visa Program?

Where are the Girls?

The Coordinated Decision of PLC and Federal Crop Insurance in Managing Price Risk in Rice

United States Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Texas v. New Mexico Water Dispute

Creeping Imports and Hidden Costs to U.S. Fresh Produce Growers

Farming to Breakeven in 2024

Thoughts on the Cattle Inventory Report

Cotton Acreage and Relative Prices

WOTUS Update

Proposed Safety Net Choice Could Add Risk to Farmers

Foreign Investment in U.S. Agricultural Land: Leasing vs. Owning

Higher Cattle and Beef Prices

A Way-Too-Early Soybean-to-Corn Price Ratio Analysis: Price Implications and Planting Decisions

USDA Finalizes Rule on Organic Livestock and Poultry Standards

Southern U.S. Agriculture Faces Headwinds in Asia Amid Red Sea Shipping Disruptions

Cotton Crop Insurance: Unveiling Regional Differences in Projected and Harvest Prices

Lower Hay Stocks in Some of the Southeast for Winter

2024 Winter Wheat Production Prospects

Seven Elements Your Farmers’ Market Website Should Include to Attract Consumers

Making the ARC/PLC Election for 2024

Cotton Crop Insurance: Regional Differences in Sales Closing Dates and Cancellation Dates

More COF Still?

Real and Nominal Corn Futures Prices 

Online Training for Cooperative Boards

U.S. Agricultural Trade: Value vs. Volume

Financial Ratios to Consider for Measuring Financial Resiliency of Your Farm

More Pigs

Peanut Cost of Production, the Farm Bill, and Need for Risk Management

Citrus Greening, Hurricanes, and the Decline of the Florida Citrus Industry

Shouldn’t the Farm Safety Net Target Those Feeding the Country?

What Should I Do With My Heifers?

Weight Gain

Federal Crop Insurance and the False Claims Act

American Whiskey Gets Extended Tariff Reprieve in the EU…Just Weeks Before the Deadline

Look Out Overhead

EQIP Overview for Livestock Producers

The New Small Business Reporting Rule and Your Farm

Bracing for Change: Stacking Risk Management Tools for 2024

Exploring Diverse Crop Insurance Options for Cotton Producers

Large Cow Culling Continues

Using Historical Price Movements to Inform Marketing Decisions

Finding a Lawyer

What’s all the Fuss about the Inflation Reduction Act?

Two Key Productivity Measures with Profit Implications for Cow-calf Operations

Holiday Baking Gets a Boost

Examining Sugarcane and Sugarbeet Production Costs 

More than Ever, Rural Communities Need Strong Third Places to Build Social Capital

Forecasting Discretionary Spending by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

Will Irrigated Soybean Area Continue to Expand in Eastern Arkansas?

Feeder Bulls Discounted to Feeder Steers?

Why are Peanuts Bucking the Declining Crop Price Trend?

Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers Affect U.S. Agricultural Exports to the ASEAN Market

Evaluation of the Recent Government Accountability Office Sugar Program Report 

Comparing Liquified Propane to Natural Gas for Heating Fuel Cost Management in Poultry

Lamb And Mutton Production Shrinks This Year 

Bridging the Price Risk Gap

Leading Change in Your Cooperative

Historic Research Yields Modern Solutions

It’s Turkey Time!

Corn Price Prospects When We Start the Year with a 2-Billion-Bushel Carryover

What Is Driving Native Plant Sales?

Implications of Reverting to Dairy Policy in the 1948 Farm Bill

The Economics of Artificial Insemination

A Charlie Brown Christmas for Cattle Prices

U.S. Cotton Cost Trends and Implications

Do We Have Enough DEA-Registered Labs to Implement Hemp Program?

What Would Our Clean-Slate Safety Net Look Like?

Estimate and Manage Your Largest Cost as a Cow-calf Operator

Understanding Basis When Managing Feeder Cattle Price Risk

Corn and Soybean Yield Trends 

US Supreme Court Will Not Hear North Carolina “Ag Gag” Appeal

Angola: U.S. Chicken Exports Facing Increasing Competition in this Leading Market 

South-Wide Timber Market: Pine Sawtimber Prices Stabilize as Pulpwood Prices Continued to Decline 

Producers Embrace USDA’s Livestock Risk Protection Program

How Market Dynamics Separate World and U.S. Rice Export Prices

Wetlands Protection under Swampbuster 

Do Crop Insurance Payments Help with Economic Impacts of Drought Beyond the Farm Gate? 

Crop Insurance as a Safety Net for Operating Loan Obligations

More Heifers Continue to Head to Feedlots

River Levels and Off-Farm Storage Disbursement

Improving Ag Structures’ Resilience to Wind Damage

Can Chinese Demand for U.S. Hides and Skins Recover?

Sectoral and Regional Concentration of H-2A Patronage

Balance of Trade Has Shifted as Beef Production has Decreased

Russian Wheat Production and World Wheat Market Fundamentals

Demystifying Patronage Refunds

Reference Prices: Setting the Record Straight

Capital Recovery Costs: An Important Component of Enterprise Budgeting

Cow Culling Climbing Seasonally

Who’s Holding Global Soybean Stocks? 

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part III

U.S. Agricultural Imports are Expected to Surpass Exports Post Covid and Beyond

Dairy Revenue Protection Historical Performance for Class Price

New Commercial Poultry Breeder Housing Under Economic Stress

Corn and Soybean Harvest Futures Contract Price Frequency 

What Does a Government Shutdown Mean for Farmers?

EWG Takes the Spotlight in the Silly Season

Which is more profitable for producers, Single-Species or Multi-Species Cover Crops?

All Markets are Local

Low River Levels, Barge Freight, and Widening Basis

Ten More States Pass Foreign Land Ownership Laws This Year

U.S. Agricultural Export Values are Expected to Decrease After a 7-Year Expansion Run

Can I Afford to Buy a Farm? 

Proposition 12 Preliminary Price Impacts

USDA Refining of Forecasted U.S. Cotton Production

EPA Publishes Updated Waters of the United States Rule

Crop Insurance Rating: the Curious Case of STAX

2023 Land Values and Buyer Motivations

Are You Buying Hay For The Winter?

Supporting Sorghum Prices in the 2023/24 Season: Exports and Basis

HPAI in 2023: “Induced” Losses Leave a Gap in the Federal Indemnity Scheme 

The Rise and Fall of U.S. Chicken Feet in China: A Story of Bird Flu and Trade Bans

2023 Agricultural Lending Condition Update

A Check in on Boxed Beef Cutout Value

The Importance of Wheat Production in the South 

Using Deliberative Dialogue to Address Florida Community Challenges

Pecan Risk Management

Files for the Farm Business

Feed Inputs for Ranchers: A Brief Look at Corn and Hay

Comparing the Harvest Price and Projected Price in Revenue Protection Crop Insurance for Rice and Corn

Farmers Markets and the South

Agricultural Commodity Markets Navigate Uncharted Waters Amidst Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Federal Funds Rate Impact on Agricultural Lending

To Breed or To Feed?

How is the Cotton Crop Looking in 2023?

Where Have All the Black Farmers Gone? 

Final Planting Dates and the Impact on Prevented Planting Acres

Effect of Interest Rates on Beef Cow Bid Price

Are We Robbing Peter’s Heifers?

The Fast Two Minutes in Crop Markets

Farmers Win Regulatory Takings Case for Managed-Flooding Impacts

A Quick Look at Brazil’s Efforts to Outpace the U.S. as Leading Corn Exporter

The Rise of Irrigated Soybeans in Arkansas  

Counter Seasonal Runs in Cattle Prices

Peanut Farmers Find Marketing Opportunities through Agricultural Cooperatives

Is Your Operation AGRItourism or AgriTOURISM?

Have Payment Yields Kept Up with Actual Crop Yields?

The Cost of Money and Commercial Poultry Growing

Is It Too Early to Talk Turkey?

Brazilian Reais, Chinese Yuan Renminbi, and United States Dollar:  Exchange Rates Could Provide Support or Hindrance to U.S. Soybean Exports

How to Protect Farmworkers During Heat Waves?

Shaking the Global Rice Market: India Bans Exports of White Non-Basmati Rice

Bermuda Grass Hay Nutrient Removal

No Signs of Beef Cattle Herd Expansion…Yet

Implications of the Black Sea Grain Deal Cancellation

Sustaining Farms by Sustaining Farmers and Farm Families

Time Running Out on a New Farm Bill This Year

Forage Costs of Production and Breakeven Curves

Dairy Margin Coverage Provides Some Help in Challenging Milk Market

Soybean Indemnity Payments for Wildlife Damage

Why is Our Cooperative Struggling?

U.S. Agricultural Exports to China Soar and Market Share Returns to Pre-Trade War Levels

Mid-Year Review and Planning

More Dairy Cow Culling

The U.S. Corn Market: a Look Ahead and Lessons from the Past

Is the Transition from Conventional to Organic Kale Production Profitable?

How will Proposition 12 Ruling Impact the Farm Bill?

Southern Timber Prices Weakened 

Hot Dog!  It’s Fourth of July!

USDA Acreage Report Results: Price and Crop Insurance Impacts

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Important Clean Water Act Ruling

U.S. Whiskey Exports Remain Strong as Ag Exports are Expected to Decline Overall

New Rules for the Calculation of H-2A Workers’ Wages

Surprisingly Big Placements in the June Cattle on Feed Report

Interest Rates and Grain Storage

What to Know About Employing Minors in the Summer and Beyond

Southern Economic Impacts of Premium-to-Liability Ratio Limits in U.S. Crop Insurance

The South as the Nation’s Primary Regional Employer of H-2A Labor

Uptick in Livestock Risk Protection for Fed Cattle

The Relationship Between Wheat Stocks Held by Exporting Countries, Global Imports, and the U.S. Marketing Year Average Price  

Moon v. Schultz – Damages in Tree Fall Cases

U.S. has Experienced Consistent Ag Export Growth to Mexico Under NAFTA and USMCA 

When is the “Best” Time to Buy Farm Diesel?

Uptick in Livestock Risk Protection for Feeder Cattle

Our Most Read Articles for 2022-2023

Difficulty in Forecasting 2023 U.S. Cotton Production

Feasibility Analysis—A Key Step to Success 

Adjusting Reference Prices Based on Changes in Cost of Production

Current Non-Real Estate Farm Debt

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The Impact of Interest Rates and Basis on Net Cash Price for Corn

Interested in Forming a Cooperative? Take the Cooperative Challenge!

Egg-spensive Business: Exploring the Spike in Egg Prices and the Impact of Imports

Up-Side-Down Yields? 

Grass Fed Beef Prices

Sorghum Exports and Production Expectations for the 2023/24 Season

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part II

The Silly Season Has Begun…Must Be Farm Bill Time

Prevented Planting and APH Reductions After Planting a Second Crop

Low Hog Prices and Red Ink

Flooding in the Upper Mississippi River is Associated with Relatively Weak Soybean Basis in the Midsouth 

United States Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 12

U.S. Beef Exports Down in 2023 (so far) – U.S. Beef is Losing Ground in China

Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land

Brisket Prices on the Rise

Higher Supplies and Lower Prices Projected for U.S. Crops in 2023

Beef Custom Harvest Agreement Considerations  

Analyzing the Relative Riskiness of Rice Yields

Economic Uncertainty and Ways to Prepare for the Worst

National Feeder and Stocker Cattle Receipts Higher to Start 2023

The Importance of Corn Production in the South to the U.S. Corn Supply

Riding off into the Sunset: State Policies and Contract Provisions That Impact Decommissioning a Solar Facility

Down the River: How the 2022 Mississippi River Drought Damaged Southern U.S. Agricultural Trade

Mobile Apps in Farm Management

April Cattle on Feed – What to Make of March Placements

Urea, Natural Gas, and Corn Price Correlations

Responding to Climate Change in Rural Communities

Revisiting Planted Versus Base Acres

The Five Types of Risk in Agriculture

Marketing Locally Raised Meats? Lessons Learned in South Carolina        

Peanut Acreage Projected to Increase in 2023

4 Tips for Better Board Meetings

Global Market Prospects for U.S. Long-Grain Rice for the Upcoming Marketing Year

Benchmarking

Another Week, Another Record

Competing Influences and Expectations for World Cotton Demand

How Much Can I Sell This For? Part I

Regional Equity in Crop Insurance

Managing Price Risk for Cow-Calf Producers

Cattle Prices in Record Territory

Rethinking Fertilizer Prices

Right to Farm Bills in the South

Expanded U.S.-Mexico Trade in Avocados Benefits U.S. Consumers

Days Suitable for Planting Rice in Arkansas

‘Tis The Season for Lamb

Key Takeaways and Reliability of the 2023 Prospective Plantings Report

What is an “Ag-Gag” Law?

Congressional Representation from the South

Wheat Straw Nutrient Removal

Heating Fuel and Electricity Concerns for Commercial Poultry

Sensitivity of USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum Projections to Changes in Soybean Crush Demand

A Cheese by Any Other Name

What Might Climate Change Mean for U.S. Grain Exports?

Loan Amortization

Beef Cow Culling Sharply Lower

Sensitivity of USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum Projections to Changes in Corn Exports