April was a memorable month for me. On April 8, I wrapped up my one-year term as president of North American Agricultural Journalists by leading...

Average U.S. farmland values and rental rates rose in 2019, according to two new annual reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National...

Regular readers of this column, all three or four of you, know that I stress the importance of honest, respectful communication, especially among...

A U.S. House appropriations bill would be good for agriculture, including sustainable ag, but the limited amount of time to gain needed broader...

Here and there, in certain states and crops, the 2019 Upper Midwest crop is showing signs of improvement. But the overall crop remains far less...

Most American farmers spent the last week of May and the first week of June either driving through mud or stuck in it. Their two farming partners,...

PENNOCK — Nearly two years to the day that a ferocious storm ripped apart barns at the Carlson Dairy farm — injuring cattle and throwing...

It's a truism in American agriculture that food-growing technology undergoes an industry-shaking metamorphosis every generation. When Grandpa...

Britton Fuglseth's agricultural career didn't enjoy a promising beginning. When she took her first ag class in seventh grade at Fertile-Beltrami...

If you want to anger almost any American farmer, write something less than flattering about the declining use of biofuels — especially...

If what we're seeing now is the Trump trade "strategy" — cram trade talks between the U.S. and China, the U.S. and Japan, and the U.S....

One of the oldest theoretical constructions in economics declares that in a perfect market, short term profits and losses eventually even out...