DTN identified the 10 highest sales of farmland in Illinois on a per-acre basis using the land analytics tool AcreValue. An institutional investor tops the list, but farmers and individual investors bought the rest.
USDA is issuing an order Thursday that will go into effect April 29 requiring dairy farmers sending lactating cows across state lines to have those cows tested for H5N1 before they can move. FDA also announced it will conduct nationwide testing of dairy products while stressing that pasteurization kills the H5N1 virus.
A new study by USDA's Economic Research Service found that 3.5% of all U.S. farms received payments for energy production on their land from 2011 to 2020.
Overall ethanol production in the United States averaged 954,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the week ended April 19.
For the fourth consecutive week, average retail prices for all eight major fertilizers were higher compared to last month, though none were up significantly.
Archer Daniels Midland's chief financial officer Vikram Luthar will resign at the end of September amid ongoing investigations into the company's accounting practices, according to a company filing Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Nationwide, corn planting reached 12% complete and soybean planting reached 8% as of Sunday, April 21, both slightly ahead of the five-year averages. Winter wheat conditions were rated 50% good to excellent, down 5 points from the previous week.
Iowa farmers oppose Netherlands-based Orascom Constructions Industries (OCI) selling a seven-year-old fertilizer plant on the Mississippi River near Wever, Iowa, in the state's southeast corner.
Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.8 million head on April 1, 2024. The inventory was 1% above April 1, 2023, USDA NASS reported on Friday.
A derecho crossed several states in the Midwest in 2020 causing billions of dollars of damage, including to grain bins. Research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) might lead to new bin designs that might allow grain storage structures to better withstand natural disasters.