A new study suggests that decades of reported gains in crop yields from plant breeding may be significantly overstated, ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing $1 billion in Assistance for Specialty Crop Farmers (ASCF) Program assistance for ...

Parum: There are other risk management tools like ARC and PLC. ARC county prices this year will be set at $5.03 for corn, $12.17 for soybeans, and $6.98 for wheat. There's also PLC (which) is set by ...

In a world where increasing demands for food security and energy strain existing resources, scientists are looking for new ...

USDA’s May World Ag Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report is its first official look at the new-crop marketing year for corn and soybeans. It’s a big event. There are, however, some key ...

For many years the IRS in Publication 225 (The Farmers Tax Guide) had indicated that farmers could not elect to defer crop insurance proceeds to the following year for revenue protection (RP) policies ...

As has often been said with farming, “every year is different.” Many times, decisions for the current crop year are based on what happened in the previous year or two. That could be the scenario in ...

Climate change is making insuring crops more risky, but the federally subsidized crop insurance program's payouts are up 500%. With a new Farm Bill coming, critics want to rethink the program. Farming ...

Vive Crop Protection has appointed Wade Clarke (pictured) as national business development manager for Canada. Clarke, who has more than two decades of experience in Canadian agriculture, will be ...