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Episode 290: Have We Hit the Spring Cattle Market Peak?
With challenging conditions across much of the ag economy, cattle markets are a bright spot in the first few months of 2026. Despite high prices, consumers are continuing to buy beef, even in advance of what is usually the peak dema...
Episode 289: War Shapes Planting in April WASDE
The April WASDE dropped Thursday, April 9th, representing the third big update from USDA in two weeks following the Prospective Planting and U.S. Grain Stocks reports.Though expectations from analysts were relatively low, wider uncertain...
Episode 288: How Rural America is Surviving (and Thriving)
Lamenting the “hollowing of rural America” has become standard fare across certain types of media and policy leaders, but for those who live, work, and raise their crops and family in and around small towns, rural America feels far from hollow....
Episode 287: How to Use Dicamba in 2026
Three different dicamba herbicide products are making a comeback in 2026 with new labels and new rules for use from EPA. Whether farmers are aiming to use BASF’s Engenia, Syngenta’s Tavium, or Bayer's newly-renamed Stryax products, ...
Episode 286: Boots on the Ground in Brazil
We’ve been keeping up with weather and crop conditions in Latin America from afar this winter, but any farmer will tell you that the national data doesn’t tell you as much as seeing a crop with your own eyes. That’s one of the key r...
Episode 285: The War in Iran Meets the March WASDE
The March WASDE dropped Tuesday, March 10th, though its arrival was in part overshadowed by market concerns about an evolving conflict in the Middle East which has snarled energy and fertilizer supply chains that pass through the Strait of Horm...
Episode 286: Fertilizer, War, and the Farm Bill: A U.S. Farm Policy Update
As compared to the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine years ago, the earliest days of the war between the U.S., Israel, and Iran did not seem likely to affect U.S. ag markets. Then the Iranian regime announced its intent to ...
Episode 284: Tractors Rule at 2026 Commodity Classic
The 2026 Commodity Classic event attracted more than 12,000 farmers to sunny San Antonio for multiple days of trade shows, marketing workshops and big announcements from across the industry. Even U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke...
Episode 283: First Look at Spring Weather Forecast
With at least one major winter storm in the rearview, temperatures are ticking up and the countdown to planting is on. But with soil moisture deficits remaining across much of the U.S., key growing regions, and warm, dry temperature...
Episode 282: New World Screwworm, Plant Closures and Beef in the Food Pyramid
Despite the fact that she’s in the middle of calving season herself, DTN’s Senior Livestock Editor Jennifer Carrico has been simultaneously staying on top of an avalanche of stories affecting U.S. cattle markets here in 2026. Today,...
Episode 281: E15, Farm Aid and Immigration
Though employees and services from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have not been disrupted by the recently ended partial government shutdown, plenty of uncertainty remains when it comes to ag policy in the new year. As challengin...
Episode 280: Winter Storm Redux and What’s Ahead for Ag Weather
A highly unusual winter storm swept across the United States on Jan. 24-25, plunging parts of the midwest into long stretches of below zero temperatures while dumping feet of snow from Kansas and Missouri all the way into the Northeast.S...
Episode 279: Ag Equipment Leads with Autonomy and AI at Electronics Show
CES, the former Consumer Electronics Show, is hosted every year in Las Vegas, Nevada, attracting the latest and greatest in futuristic tech for consumers, businesses, and everyone in between. It was just a few years ago, in 2019, wh...
Episode 278: January WASDE Stuns Markets
The January WASDE dropped Monday, January 12th, shocking market watchers with an updated U.S. corn crop that’s now a record by an even wider margin. Almost no one expected USDA to add 1.3 million harvested corn acres to the mix on top of a half...
Episode 277: 2026 Fertilizer Forecast with Russ Quinn
With a long year of uncertainty in the rearview — farmers are coming into 2026 with hope for more stability in terms of global trade, prices, and growing conditions. While the outlook for some of these factors remains unclear, global fertilizer...
Episode 276: Top Ag Stories of 2025
Every year, the staff of DTN Progressive Farmer spend time reflecting on the news that was and evaluating which stories did the most to shape producers’ experience in the field, in the markets, and beyond. Given the non-stop flood o...
Episode 275: 2026 Best Young Farmers and Ranchers
DTN’s 2025 Virtual Ag Summit has just wrapped up, with farmers from across the country convening to discuss what to expect, and how to prepare, for an uncertain year ahead. The event also gave DTN Progressive Farmer’s Senior Editor ...
Episode 274: Last Minute Farm Tax Planning for 2025
The U.S. tax code doesn’t often go through big changes, but with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, or OBBBA, earlier this year, there are plenty of changes to keep an eye out for as 2026 comes into view.To help us understand wha...
Episode 273: Unpacking the Final WASDE of 2025
The December WASDE dropped Tuesday, December 9th, bringing home what’s been a tumultuous year of grain market news in the U.S. and beyond. Though the Department of Agriculture is still catching up on some reporting that was disrupte...
Episode 272: First Look at the 2026 Ag Weather Forecast
The 2025 DTN’s Ag Summit has just wrapped up, with farmers from across the country convening virtually to discuss the year that was, the year ahead, and the key issues affecting their operations. Forecasts for weather and market in ...
Episode 271: What’s New for the 2025 DTN Ag Summit
Another harvest season is just about wrapped, which means that the annual DTN Ag Summit event is upon us once again — coming up on December 3rd and 4th. This year’s program aims to help farmers prepare for success as they navigate l...
Episode 270: After a Lost October, WASDE Returns in November
The November WASDE dropped Friday, November 14th, marking a return to normalcy as the longest government shutdown in history came to an end and USDA began to process and release more than a month of unpublished data.Surprises abounded, a...
Episode 269: The Government Reopens: What’s Next for Farmers?
The U.S. federal government began a partial shutdown starting Wednesday October 1st, and after 43 long days it finally came to end on November 12th.A resumption of funding means that many furloughed USDA employees will be getting back to...
Episode 268: Looking Beyond Chaos in the Cattle Markets
Though cattlemen are still in a good marketing position compared to years past, the last two weeks have seen enough price instability to make any rancher feel sick to their stomach.With competing headlines around whether or not the South...
Episode 267: View from the Cab with Stuart Sanderson
Since 2005, DTN Progressive Farmer has been selecting two farmers from across the country to participate in the annual View from the Cab project. These farmers spend a full year getting to know DTN’s Pamela Smith through weekly call...