Farmers are facing higher input costs, including fuel costs. Even within this growing season, farmers have seen significant movement in fuel prices.
- Tim Kenyon
COLFAX, Iowa 鈥 Speakers at Becknology Day in central Iowa urged producers to be hyper vigilant to keep their farming operations in the black.
- Sue Roesler
STERLING, N.D. 鈥 Fourth-generation ranchers Jerry and Renae Doan, along with several natural resources and grazing groups, will host 鈥淎dvancing Soil Health for a Healthy America Summit鈥 on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The event offers a full-day ranch experience and immersion into regenerative ag and…
- Sue Roesler
BEACH, N.D. 鈥 The Golden Valley County FFA chapter was the only FFA chapter in North Dakota invited to take part in the inaugural National FFA Catalyst Conference in mid-June in Indianapolis. North Dakota and 23 other states were represented at the conference, and each chapter was asked to s…
- Sue Roesler
With North Dakota experiencing聽high heat throughout July, including stretches of days in the triple-digits, some are asking whether there鈥檚 a super El Ni帽o on the way.
- Janelle Atyeo
Brooke Rollins made her first trip to Minnesota as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture when she spoke at Farmfest Tuesday morning, Aug. 4, but she鈥檚 no stranger to Minnesota farm country.
- Katelyn Winberg
Farmfest returns to Gilfillan Estate near Redwood Falls, Minnesota, Aug. 4-6 with new educational programming, expanded family activities and opportunities for producers to learn about emerging technologies while connecting with exhibitors from across the agriculture industry.
- Benjamin Herrold
For farm families, finding healthcare coverage is an important but challenging task.
- Sue Roesler
During the first half of July, several momentous events in the southwestern region of North Dakota impacted agriculture.聽
- Katelyn Winberg
Agricultural economist David Widmar opened his presentation at the South Dakota Governor's Ag Summit with a story that had little to do with commodity markets.
- Sue Roesler
ARGUSVILLE, N.D. 鈥 When Lindsay and Carl Olson, owners and operators of Olson Hereford Ranch with Carl鈥檚 parents,聽received an APUC grant to help construct a building on their farm/ranch, it wasn鈥檛 for more farm storage or for their seedstock cattle.
- Katelyn Winberg
Grey Zabel didn't come to the Governor's Ag Summit with a PowerPoint. He came with a $100 bill from American Bank and Trust, a challenge for the crowd, and story after story tying a field outside Selby, South Dakota, to a football field in Seattle.
- Sue Roesler
A North Dakotan farmer had a seat at the table when U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew N. Ferguson announced the investigation of fertilizer price hikes at a McKinney, Texas, farm shop after hearing farmers complain about high fertilizer costs that have risen sharply since 2020.
- Sue Roesler
Energy prices are continuing to drive inflation up 鈥 4.2 percent 鈥 the highest rate since 2023, according to Bryon聽Parman, NDSU Extension agricultural finance specialist.
- Andrew Chung Reuters
The decision overturned a jury verdict in Missouri awarding $1.25 million to a man who said he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after years of exposure to glyphosate in Roundup.
- Ruth Nicolaus
鈥淎 lot of people will say they are born broke. That isn鈥檛 quite the case, but they鈥檙e much calmer than other breeds.鈥
- Sue Roesler
An ag roundtable organized by U.S. Sen. John Hoeven addressed current North Dakota farmer/rancher concerns with聽Farm Service Agency Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce聽at NDSU鈥檚 Barry Hall in Fargo聽on May 26.
- Sue Roesler
It was a good week for North Dakota corn growers, as on May 13, the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 (H.R. 1346) 鈥 better known as year-round E15 sales聽鈥 passed in the U.S. Congress on a vote of 218-203. It is now in the U.S. Senate.
- Katelyn Winberg
On the Mockler family farm near Centerville, spring planting is a full-family effort.
- Sue Roesler
As planting season rolls on across the region, farmers have been taking advantage of warmer days and workable fields to get the crop in and tackle early weeds.聽
- By CEILIDH KERN, The Beacon (Kansas City)
Author Mark Twain, a proud son of Missouri, once reportedly mused that 鈥渨hiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.鈥
- Sue Roesler
Urea prices, along with other nitrogen fertilizers, will squeeze farmers鈥 pockets this planting season, unless producers have already locked in prices for the year and can count on their co-op having the supply needed.
- Katelyn Winberg
Gene-edited crops reach farmers鈥 fields faster than regulators around the world can agree on how to oversee them, and the resulting divide is shaping where agricultural innovation takes place.
- Crystal Reed
The markets are eyeing the forecast to see whether planting progress will push forward or not.
- Sue Roesler
FARGO, N.D.聽鈥撀燦orth Dakota soybean groups have been scouring the globe searching for new markets for beans or existing markets that could be expanded. With China purchasing only about half of the U.S. soybeans it normally buys, the North Dakota Soybean Council (NDSC) and the North Dakota Soy…