Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Climate-smart farming has risen the ranks in Midwest states

Since 2021, EQIP contracts for "climate-smart" practices have increased above general practices in all 12 Midwest states with ...
Yahoo

Midwest farm economies suffered while some Sun Belt states rolled in early 2025

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...
AG Week

Midwest Agriculture Summit takes on big questions in ag transportation

WEST FARGO, N.D. — What farmers do in their fields is just the first step in a long line of actions to get products to market. "You can't feed the world if you can't get to the world," said Daniel ...
The Gazette

Midwest oat growers want a renaissance, but it will be hard without Big Ag

Martin Larsen (left) and Jess Offord (right) stand in the oat field and discuss the harvest on Aug. 3 in Byron, Minn. (Steven Garcia/Investigate Midwest) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...
inforum

Live Tuesday at 8 a.m.: 2025 Midwest Agriculture Summit

FARGO—The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce will host the 2025 Midwest Agriculture Summit Tuesday, June 10 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Watch it live here. The future of agriculture is a ...
Agri-Pulse

Midwest Agricultural Export Summit / Sioux Falls, SD

Additional farm aid wasn't included in a government funding package but farm groups are continuing to push for additional assistance, including $5 billion specifically for specialty crops. Rep. Josh ...
Iowa Public Radio

Midwest farmers worry about the impacts of tariffs on exported crops and imported fertilizer

New tariffs announced this week have farmers concerned about the impacts on their income. The last major trade war led to more than $27 billion in agricultural losses for U.S. farmers. The Trump ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

Farmers across the Midwest learn how iron and flames can take out weeds

Farmers look at equipment on display at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day at the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station in central Iowa on August 20, 2025. Weeds are a ...
Purdue University

Shivika Aggrawal Presents Research on Social-Ecological Memory in Midwest Agriculture

Shivika Aggrawal, a Ph.D. student in the Center for Community & Environmental Design – Dr. Aaron Thompson’s lab, has been sharing the lab’s research on social-ecological memory in agriculture at ...
AG Week

Pessimism continues across the upper Midwest agricultural sector, according to ag lenders

In a survey by the Ninth District of the Federal Reserve Bank, of Minneapolis, lenders share details of continued lower income and spending and higher demand for loans during the fourth quarter of ...
Yahoo

Midwest farm economies suffered while some Sun Belt states kept rolling in early 2025

Machinery harvests corn in Scotts Bluff County, Neb., last year. Low prices for row crops and high costs for fertilizer are squeezing Midwest row-crop farmers while the Southeast is still on an ...