About Agribusiness Press

Farm Press Theme is an independent digital newspaper covering Agribusiness, Strategy, Food, Industry and Business. Farming is a capital-intensive business with one or two chances a year to be right. It is part of VUGA Network, a group of independent digital publications published in the United States.

The paper is written for farm owners and managers, and for the lenders and advisers working with them. Work takes two shapes: an analysis piece follows a price move, a policy change or an input shortage through to margin per acre, and a profile spends time with an operation and reports what it actually spends, plants and earns.

What We Cover

Agribusiness examines the commercial structure around production: cooperatives and elevators, processors and input suppliers, farmland ownership and rental rates, agricultural credit, and consolidation among seed and chemical firms.

Strategy covers commitments made a season or more in advance — rotation and acreage allocation, forward contracts and storage, hedging, land rental and purchase — working through the assumptions on cost and price each decision depends on, and what happens when they fail.

Food follows the crop past the farm gate into processing, packing, distribution and retail, from processor margins to the demand shifts that change what buyers will contract for next year.

Industry News reports policy and subsidy changes, crop insurance rules, export restrictions, disease outbreaks and recalls, with effective dates and the regions affected, so a grower can judge exposure quickly.

Business News connects equipment and input manufacturer results, fertilizer and fuel pricing and land values to farm operating cost, with the timing a grower would need for budgeting.

Sponsored trial data is not printed as fact, and no machine or seed treatment is written up without cost per acre and the number of seasons behind the evidence.