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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

We begin the analysis by reviewing the discussion in our previous farmdoc daily article (May 24, 2023) about the difference between binding and non-binding biofuel mandates. Figure 1 presents standard ...

For a couple of years now, American households have navigated a challenging period of rising prices. While the recent Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for April indicates a welcome moderation in ...