While ongoing supply disruptions due to the war in Iran and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz has caused crude oil and wheat prices to rise, the conflict has had less impact on the sunflower market comparatively.
- Mark Conlon
Volatile weather conditions have been making for some volatile swings in the wheat market this spring.
- Mark Conlon
As the 2026 corn crop is being planted, improving new crop corn futures prices are creating marketing opportunities for producers.
- Sue Roesler
Urea prices, along with other nitrogen fertilizers, will squeeze farmers’ pockets this planting season, unless producers have already locked in prices for the year and can count on their co-op having the supply needed.
- Sue Roesler
Clair Keene, NDSU Extension agronomist in cereal crops and field corn, urges producers to take advantage of any nitrogen fertilizer credits they have in their system, especially with higher fertilizer costs this growing season.
- Sue Roesler
Wheat growers are able to have both high yields and top quality in the same sample of wheat, a fact which the National Wheat Yield Contest (NWYC) set out to prove when the contest added Top-Quality Awards to the yield awards a few years ago.
- Benjamin Herrold
When it comes to spring calving or fall calving, cattle producers have a variety of factors to consider.
- Sue Roesler
CARRINGTON, N.D. – When cow/calf producers are breeding this summer, they may look back at their spring calves and wonder about how valuable they really were.
Tractors were rolling – sporadically – in the south-central and western regions of the state in mid-April, planting mostly spring wheat and pulses for the 2026 season, but cold, wet soils are keeping farmers in other parts of the state waiting to get into the fields.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – In gently rolling Prairie Pothole countryside, fifth-generation farmers Brandon and Jessie Bock are innovative owners and operators of Bock Farms on the eastern edge of northwestern North Dakota.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – Within the rolling hills and long fertile valleys in central North Dakota, fourth-generation progressive farmers Scott and Rachel Spear raise their crops as equal partners in their farming operation. They have three fifth-generation children, Emma, 20, Lydia, 18, and Everett, 14.Â
- Sue Roesler
Bayer Crop Science operates approximately 8,000 acres of farmland across Oahu, Maui, and Molokai in Hawaii, where more than 90 percent of the global supply of feed corn for seed is grown.
- By BARRY COLEMAN, Northern Canola Growers Association
The canola market continues to show strength recently as the market is said to be supported by higher crude oil prices and higher soybean oil prices, according to analysts. The current situation in the canola industry is increasing crush capacity along with record crush margins, increasing e…
- Mark Conlon
Although China is now receiving the 12 million metric tons (MMT) of U.S. soybeans they agreed to purchase last year and still intends to buy 25 MMT more per year for the next three years, the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a point of concern that could potentially disrupt trade tal…
- Mark Conlon
It’s been a relatively slow period for the durum market, which remains in pretty much the same position it’s been for the past several weeks. One change, however, is that durum prices and spring wheat prices are now nearly on equal footing as durum no longer enjoys much of a premium over spr…
- Mark Conlon
While other grain markets have been impacted by volatile world events, notably rising fuel and fertilizer costs, the U.S. sunflower market has been able to sidestep some of the turmoil in part because it is not as dependent on exports. The fact there’s less volatility for sunflower may entic…
- Mark Conlon
There are plenty of factors influencing the wheat market lately as evidenced by prices moving up, down, and back up again. The result is that prices are back to where they were earlier in April. The question is how will these factors continue to influence the market and for how long?
- Mark Conlon
The corn market is keeping an eye on a number of factors that can shift price movement quickly and that’s likely to continue, at least for the near term, and those are planting progress, the weather, and the war in Iran.
- Katelyn Winberg
Gene-edited crops reach farmers’ fields faster than regulators around the world can agree on how to oversee them, and the resulting divide is shaping where agricultural innovation takes place.
- Crystal Reed
The markets are eyeing the forecast to see whether planting progress will push forward or not.
- Michael Baron
Dear Michael: We have been quite successful in life and have acquired a large amount of liquid assets. In the back of my mind, I have always wondered about long-term care insurance. Now that I have acquired sufficient funds to pay for my own long-term care, is long-term care insurance worth …
- Sue Roesler
FARGO, N.D. – North Dakota soybean groups have been scouring the globe searching for new markets for beans or existing markets that could be expanded. With China purchasing only about half of the U.S. soybeans it normally buys, the North Dakota Soybean Council (NDSC) and the North Dakota Soy…
- Sue Roesler
VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Dry bean growers looking for contracts for the year may want to consider the new Columbia Grain Pulse Processing Plant in Valley City, which had its grand opening ceremony on April 1.
- Lainie Kringen-Scholtz
"After getting to work on some of these bulls, I can tell you first hand that they are treated like royalty."
- Sue Roesler
On a snowy spring day, three producers from across the state joined research scientists from NDSU Research Extension Centers (RECs) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at the Cover Crop Summit on April 2 to share their perspective and experiences with cover crops.
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