harvest

The average price of diesel is $5.32 per gallon, more than $1.50 above the same time last year. While prices are below the $5.81 peak in June, the high cost…

While corn and soybeans generally steal the thunder of each USDA report, the July Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) reports clearly shifted the trade focus to…

More than $1 billion in payments will be released over the next several weeks starting June 15 for agricultural producers with approved applications for the Quality Loss Adjustment (QLA) Program…

After waiting for more than a year for the USDA’s Quality Loss Adjustment (QLA) program, Montana farmers were thankfully to finally see the disaster aid program announced. Developed as part…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced that signup for the Quality Loss Adjustment (QLA) Program will begin Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Funded by the Further…

The North Dakota Wheat Commission (NDWC) and the U.S. Durum Growers Association (USDGA) held a virtual “Northern Durum Pre-Harvest Update” Aug. 18 featuring industry experts, farmers and university Extension workers reporting on the 2020…

Farmers affected by severe weather this fall may be eligible for another $1.5 billion in disaster funding in the recently passed appropriations bill. Wild and unpredictable weather in 2019 has…

Montana Governor Steve Bullock today requested additional assistance from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue for Montana sugarbeet farmers who experienced severe losses this harvest season. “Both the production and…

(Above Scott Mangold of KPOW (left) and Taylor Brown of the Northern Ag Network addressing the crowd at the KPOW Harvest Festival in Powell.)   Friday evening, August 11, at…

by Mark Weinraub   CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. wheat futures sank on Wednesday, weighed down by signs of abundant supplies and dim prospects for U.S. exports, traders said.   The…