It is in October, with the new fiscal year, that the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is typically replenished. The CCC is the primary funding mechanism for all farm program payments and ...

It has been less than four years since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, launching the current AI era. Since that launch, monthly spending on data centers has increased from less than $1 ...

Diesel fuel prices for agricultural use in Illinois have reached a record high. Those higher prices are estimated to raise fuel and oil costs on Central Illinois grain farms with high land ...

Michael Langemeier and Joana Colussi - This article examines dispersion in producer sentiment, as measured by the Ag Economy ...

Our results reveal narrow profit margins for commercial beekeeping. For a representative migratory operation managing 8,500 ...

A recent farmdoc daily article (Sherrick and Tsay, 2026) used the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) data to examine foreign ownership of U.S.

Over time, these changes will result in higher ARC/PLC payment rates compared to the previous Farm Bill. Price and yield ...

Nancy Ouedraogo and Mark White - Survey results in this article show that although many rural households now have access to broadband service, the existing infrastructure often falls short of meeting ...

Agricultural loan balances at U.S. commercial banks increased in the second quarter of 2026, with gains in both farm real estate and non-real estate loans. At agricultural banks, farm loan delinquency ...

Agricultural conservation policies include assistance for nutrient management. To the extent that this assistance is intended to encourage farmers to reduce application rates for nutrients, such as ...