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2025.09.05
USDA Trims Farm Income Forecast Amid Crop Market Slump
The Agriculture Department is lowering its forecast for farm earnings in 2025 as declines in the crop sector more than offset soaring incomes for cattle producers.
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2025.09.04
USDA Secures New Long-Term Fire-Retardant Contract, Saving Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today signed a new five-year contract for American made fire retardant with Perimeter Solutions, supporting the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior’s aerial wildland fire suppression programs.
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2025.09.03
Taiwan Shares Success of AI-Driven Agriculture at 10th APEC Food Security Ministerial Meeting
At the 2025 APEC Food Security Ministerial Meeting in Incheon, Deputy Minister Hu Jong-I led Taiwan’s delegation and shared AI-driven strategies for climate change, labor, and supply chains, earning praise and interest in further cooperation.
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2025.09.03
From Big Bud to Farmall: Farm Show Highlights Bigger Machines, Smarter Tech, and Throwbacks
Technology, efficiency, and safety were common themes at this year’s Farm Progress Show. Larger machines to provide more power and the ability to cover more acres in a day were highlights of many manufacturers’ displays.
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2025.09.01
U.S. Farmers Face Trade Strains, Record Crops, and Market Uncertainty
Harvest is quickly approaching, but grower groups and the ag industry are on edge, as China has yet to make a purchase from the fall U.S. soybean crop.
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2025.08.28
China Remains Absent From U.S. Soybean Market
Bloomberg’s Hallie Gu and Clarice Couto reported that “just days before the start of the U.S. export season for soybeans, the world’s top importer doesn’t appear to have bought a single American cargo for the coming year.”
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2025.08.27
What Does the Farmland Security Plan Mean for Foreign-Owned Businesses Like Syngenta?
In July, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the National Farm Security Action Plan, the Trump administration’s effort to elevate American agriculture as a key element of national security.
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2025.08.26
Corn Condition Holds Steady While Wheat Harvest Nears Finish in USDA Report
Today, the USDA published the 21st Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, wheat, and oat numbers.
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2025.08.25
Illinois Soybeans See Rising Threat From Red Crown Rot Disease
Emerging in the Midwest as recently as 2018, the footprint of red crown rot of soybeans is expanding in Illinois, according to an agronomist.
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2025.08.22
Southern Rust Now the ‘No. 1 Threat’ as Disease Spreads Across Corn Belt
Southern rust has quickly become a top concern for agronomists scouting fields this August. This “tropical disease” has infected corn in 20 states, according to the Crop Protection Network (CPN).