About Agribusiness Press

Farming is a capital-intensive business with one or two chances a year to be right. AGRIBUSINESS PRESS covers it that way. Reporting runs from the field to the elevator to the processor: acreage and rotation decisions, seed and fertilizer costs, labor availability, grain and livestock prices, and the contracts that move a crop from harvest into a supply chain. Readers are growers, farm managers, agronomists, buyers and the lenders who finance all of them.

Work here takes two shapes, analysis and profile. An analysis piece follows a price move, a policy change or an input shortage through to margin per acre. A profile spends time with an operation and reports what it actually spends, plants and earns. 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.

Agribusiness covers the firms and structures around production: cooperatives, processors, land ownership, credit. Strategy addresses decisions made a season ahead, including rotation, contracting, storage and when to lock a price. Food follows the crop past the farm gate into processing, retail and consumer demand. Markets tracks commodity prices, basis, futures and the weather and trade news that move them. Agtech assesses machinery, sensing, biologicals and software against payback rather than promise. Industry News and Business News record regulation, deals, results and the corporate moves shaping the sector.

Publication is by VUGA Media Group; the masthead sits inside the VUGA Enterprises Network.