A Farm Region Moving North and East The classic Corn Belt used to be easy to picture: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and parts of ...

Farmers and landowners in the Plains states and upper Midwest stand to benefit the most from one of the biggest expansions of commodity program support in decades, according to economists who have ...

Despite the immense uncertainty in agriculture due to the escalating trade war, farmers do not have the luxury of delaying planting decisions – or planting itself. Now that spring has arrived, they ...

If you want a quick update on how Midwest corn and soybeans are faring this season, check out the farmdoc 1-minute weekly report, which highlights USDA-NASS data. For the week ending June 22, the ...

The Midwest is bracing for a brutal heat wave this week, and millions of acres of corn crops are about to make it feel even worse. As temperatures soar across the region, a natural process called ...

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...

Generally, the added cost of the tariffs gets added on to prices that businesses or consumers pay for the end products, or it ...

Indiana summers are so hot that even the corn sweats. By late July, the Midwest's most abundant crop is prospering and perspiring enough to cause a slight bump in humidity levels. The water absorbed ...