It’s a story the market has been talking about since this spring. Even with some weather hiccups, favorable weather is creating ideal growing conditions for much of the Midwest, and as a result, USDA ...

The two states combined produce almost 10% of U.S. potatoes. Production in both states appeared to be down in 2025 compared ...

USDA’s August World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report incorporates the first field-based yield projections for the 2025/26 crop year. Updated forecasts for row crops adjust ...

Investigate Midwest is a data-centric newsroom. Our weekly Data Harvests aim to visualize key agricultural statistics, and our investigative stories are often rooted in original data analysis. Of the ...

Acreage reports that producers file with the USDA’s Farm Service Agency back up the department’s big corn acreage forecast and suggest that it may even be underestimated, according to economists at ...

USDA’s latest World Supply and Demand Estimate report predicts corn production at 16.7 billion bushels, “which if realized would be the highest production for grain on record for the United States.” ...

Vince Boddicker with Farmers Trading Company says soybeans are mostly lower seeing some Turnaround Tuesday profit taking and after running into chart resistance. “When you get a big day like that it’s ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...