Farm management analyst Kent Thiesse shares a summary of current and potential farm program payments for 2026.

U.S. farmers this summer have received the best weather for growing crops in recent memory. But despite a record-sized crop coming, many in the Corn Belt barely expect to turn a profit this year. Corn ...

University of Missouri researchers are exploring ways to grow sweet corn more efficiently to help American farmers cut costs.

Crop ratings tell you what a field looks like from the road, Allison Thompson of The Money Farm says. Corn ratings look great, but she examines possible problems, like excess heat and humidity. USDA ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Iowa — Kyle Wendland stepped away from his engineering degree two decades ago to follow his father - not just into farming corn, but into a world of debt, grit, and stubborn faith he ...

The January USDA reports, considered the most influential data releases of the year, delivered unexpected increases in corn yield, harvested acreage and total production, pushing the U.S. corn crop ...

Could Iowa be facing another 1980s-style farm crisis, a severe downturn marked by foreclosures, suicides and job and ...

In Southern Minnesota farmers are done with the soybean harvest and are quickly moving through corn with the help of Mother Nature. While the corn crop in other areas of the Corn Belt has fallen short ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s springtime in northeast Illinois, and Lake County farmer Andy Yarc is on the clock. That means planting season is upon Illinoisans, and for Yarc, it is like Christmas in May, as ...