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AgribusinessFarm manager Michael Lauher says 2026's extremes of flooding, heat and August rain make field-by-field judgement essential, that higher prices do not restore the margins that once justified aggressive rent rises, and that drainage deserves its own line in the lease.
USDA's 11 September report cut 2026-27 ending stocks to 1.57 billion bushels, an 18% fall, leaving about 35 days of supply; adviser Jon Scheve sees longer-term upside but tells farmers to sell any harvest corn they cannot store.
LivestockHomestead Creamery in Wirtz, Virginia, founded by dairymen in 1999, made its first profit of $13,927 in 2005 after calling in economist Dave Kohl, and now targets $25 million in sales by 2028 on milk, ice cream, butter and an unlikely lemonade line.
Penn State Extension educators Heidi Reed and Tara Felix weigh keeping, baling or grazing corn fodder: residue gives 90-95% soil cover, removal cuts cover by 25-80%, and a 150-bushel crop leaves about 3.5 tons of dry fodder.
Diesel that cost under $4 before the war with Iran began in late February set records on 4 and 8 September, driven by crude near $100, distillate stocks 15% below the five-year average and Russia's halt to diesel exports, analyst Naomi Blohm writes.
AgribusinessAlejandro Gutierrez-Li of North Carolina State University says H-2A guest workers keep specialty-crop farms in business while a federal court ruling on wage rules and the end of temporary protected status for Haiti and Syria show how policy swings expose growers.
CropsUSDA's crop progress report for the week to 13 September surprised analysts who expected a decline, held soybeans at 58% good-to-excellent with 6% harvested, and showed winter wheat planting at 8%, behind the five-year average of 12%.
December corn peaked just under $5.45 on report day and November soybeans at $13.3525 before closing lower; with August inflation at 3.4%, futures markets expect the Federal Reserve to lift its target to 3.75-4%.
CropsPractical Farmers of Iowa tracked suitable fieldwork days on 38 farms in four states in 2025: on average they matched USDA's figures, but fields with a decade of cover crops showed wider spring windows as Iowa loses one spring workday every six years.
The Braddock, Kellogg, Hammersmith, McKown, Wolfe families and Turpin Farms will be honoured on 24 September at Farm Science Review in a programme founded by Ohio Farmer magazine and now run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
AgrotechKeystone Cooperative's Jason Roth and Purdue corn specialist Dan Quinn tell farmers to strip end rows, drowned-out areas and rate transitions from yield maps, check combine calibration and ask why a product appeared to work before buying it again.
LivestockGlenn and Caryl Elzinga, who came to Salmon as a forester and a plant ecologist in 1987, sell organic grass-finished beef from cattle grazing 4,800 to 9,000 feet, and after years of riders living with the herd against wolves now hold cattle with Halter collars.
LivestockJuly shipments of 224,305 tonnes were worth $641.8 million; Mexico, Colombia, Chile and South Korea have all dropped restrictions imposed after a pseudorabies detection in Iowa, and exports to Canada are up 8% in volume so far this year.
