Agribusiness examines the commercial structure surrounding production: cooperatives and elevators, processors and input suppliers, farmland ownership and rental rates, agricultural credit, and consolidation among seed and chemical firms. Analysis explains how each affects a grower's margin. Aimed at farm owners, managers and the lenders and advisers working with them.
Custom rates are not a price list; they are a build-up of labor, machine, and fuel costs, and the surveys that track them offer a defensible starting point for both sides of the deal.
Isabel Duarte · February 14, 2026
Cereal rye seed, seeding, and termination typically run $25 to $60 per acre before any payoff, and the payoff depends on which problem the cover is hired to fix.
Isabel Duarte · January 22, 2026
USDA's 2025 Land Values Summary put average U.S. farm real estate at $4,350 per acre, and the forces behind that record still matter for 2026 buyers and sellers.
Tanya Brooks · December 30, 2025