Agribusiness examines the commercial structure surrounding production: cooperatives and elevators, processors and input suppliers, farmland ownership and rental rates, agricultural credit, and consolidation among seed and chemical firms. Analysis explains how each affects a grower's margin. Aimed at farm owners, managers and the lenders and advisers working with them.
Agribusiness examines the commercial structure surrounding production: cooperatives and elevators, processors and input suppliers, farmland ownership and rental rates, agricultural credit, and consolidation among seed and chemical firms. Analysis explains how each affects a grower's margin. Aimed at farm owners, managers and the lenders and advisers working with them.
The national average cropland cash rent was $161 per acre in 2025, per USDA NASS, but the lease type a operator and landowner choose determines who carries the price and yield risk, not just who writes the check.
Isabel Duarte · April 23, 2026
Across the Ogallala region, the aquifer, not the commodity price, is the cost driver: every foot the water table falls adds lift cost and inches producers closer to a decision about what to grow.
Isabel Duarte · March 31, 2026
Guidance and autosteer cleared the ROI test on roughly half of U.S. row-crop acres; the harder question is which of the technologies stacked on top of them earn their subscription.
Isabel Duarte · March 8, 2026
Custom rates are not a price list; they are a build-up of labor, machine, and fuel costs, and the surveys that track them offer a defensible starting point for both sides of the deal.
Isabel Duarte · February 14, 2026
Cereal rye seed, seeding, and termination typically run $25 to $60 per acre before any payoff, and the payoff depends on which problem the cover is hired to fix.
Isabel Duarte · January 22, 2026