Industry News
USDA's August 2025 WASDE sized a big corn crop
The first survey-based forecast of the 2025/26 season landed near record territory for corn — the operator consequence runs through basis and storage math.
Isabel Duarte
Industry News
Industry news for agriculture: policy and subsidy program changes, crop insurance rules, export bans and trade restrictions, disease outbreaks in livestock and orchards, recalls, and mergers among input and equipment suppliers. Items give effective dates, eligibility conditions and the regions affected, so a grower can judge exposure quickly.
Current reporting on farm policy and subsidy rules, trade restrictions, disease outbreaks, recalls and consolidation among agricultural suppliers.
Industry News
What grain basis measures, and why it swings by region
Basis is the cash price minus the futures price, and it moved sharply in 2024-2025 — here is what sets it and how to read it.
Isabel Duarte
Industry News
Agtech funding in 2026 holds steady, unevenly distributed
Agtech venture funding topped $2 billion in Q2 2026 after 163 startups raised $1.89 billion in Q1, per industry round-ups — flat overall, with the story in where the dollars landed.
Isabel Duarte
Industry News
Ag trade policy in 2026: tariffs, payments and open questions
The $12 billion Farmer Bridge Assistance program closed enrollment April 17, 2026, per USDA, and state-level tariff relief programs followed — the documented money now offsetting trade-disruption losses.
Gabriela Montoya
Industry News
Renewable diesel feedstock demand tightens with new RVO
The EPA finalized the 2026 biomass-based diesel volume obligation at about 5.4 billion gallons, up from 3.35 billion in 2025, per the Iowa Soybean Association — a demand step soybean oil cannot yet fully supply.
Isabel Duarte