Category: Agriculture

Farmers answering the spring DTN Ag Confidence Index survey report happiness for current business conditions but show slight pessimism for the year ahead.

Spring conditions are continuing to impact planting, what that might mean for the mid-season in the U.S.’s many growing regions, and a harvest outlook. We also talk about severe weather potential and the global weather picture.

We’ll take a closer look specifically at how tight grain supplies could get mid-season, how to put today’s record basis in context, how to think about weather as the wheat season draws to a close, and how a big post-COVID summer might affect agriculture.

We’ll talk about farmer perspectives, the economics of wind, how to take community feedback into account, and best practices when considering and reviewing a proposed wind lease for your farm.

March’s dynamite prospective planting report dropped and markets responded with surprise and worry to low acres. We take a closer look at plantings, discuss what might explain the absence of several million acres in the report, and more.

Trading agricultural commodities is more than growing a crop and bringing it to the local market. Knowing commodity trading basics and having the technology to manage your business can be a game-changer. 

In this digital age, it is of no surprise that technology is breaking its way into the ag industry. Now farmers can use digital farming to form insight and make decisions that will yield success. The adoption of digital agriculture has provided a way to make farms sustainable, productive, and profitable. 

We talk management styles and varieties, population and soil, pests and water conservation. Plus a careful look at weather effects, and what might be ahead for progressive grain farmers in terms of sustainability and technology.