Industry news for agriculture: policy and subsidy program changes, crop insurance rules, export bans and trade restrictions, disease outbreaks in livestock and orchards, recalls, and mergers among input and equipment suppliers. Items give effective dates, eligibility conditions and the regions affected, so a grower can judge exposure quickly.
Beef packing has flipped from too little capacity to too much: with the herd at multi-decade lows, cow slaughter plants run at 55 to 60 percent utilization and packers are reconsidering expansion projects.
Isabel Duarte · May 29, 2026
Barge grain movements rose in 2025 even as the Upper Mississippi lock system awaited its first new chamber in decades, and USDA projects diverging corn and soybean export paths for 2025/26.
Gabriela Montoya · May 6, 2026
The documented deals and antitrust conditions that concentrated the commercial seed industry, and what that structure means for seed buying, as of April 2026.
Isabel Duarte · April 14, 2026
A plain-language timeline of U.S. tractor emissions regulation, from the 1990s Tier standards to Tier 4 Final diesel aftertreatment and California's fleet rules, as of March 2026.
Isabel Duarte · March 22, 2026
U.S. farm machinery sales fell 13 percent to 217,279 units in 2025, per University of Illinois farmdoc daily, and dealers enter 2026 with too much used inventory and cautious buyers.
Isabel Duarte · February 27, 2026