U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in September, leading to the smallest annual increase in nearly three years, which could give the Federal Reserve room to cut interest rates again later … Read More

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $152 million in 19 projects to provide or improve rural broadband … Read More

The U.S. and Japan signed a limited trade agreement Monday, a deal that would win back benefits American farmers lost when President Donald Trump pulled out of a broader Asia-Pacific … Read More

The deal includes 5 actions that could support farmers and biofuel production: FarmWeekNow  

IDOA collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted pesticides at their annual “Clean Sweep” collection event. This year’s event served 12 counties in southwestern Illinois. It included the collection of unwanted … Read More

While typically you might think of October as ‘harvest season’, for farmers the harvest usually starts in Mid-September. But for some farmers in the Tri-States, they’re just getting started pulling … Read More

A nine-and-a-half-hour drive from Illinois to Nebraska is a regular day in the life for corn and soybean farmer Mark Tuttle. Five days a week, the DeKalb County native transports … Read More

Major manufacturers like John Deere are feeling the impact of extreme weather and the ongoing trade on the ag industry. Caterpillar says sales of tractors and combines have been down … Read More

President Trump today signed the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, which is an important step forward with U.S. agriculture’s fourth-largest export market. The Japan bilateral agreement keeps intact essentially all the trade … Read More

Many farmers hoped for some additional heat units in September to help late-planted crops catch up on maturity. And most got just that. The statewide temperature last month averaged a … Read More