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Corn is harvested in northern Dallas County, Iowa, the end of October. As harvest winds up, farmers think about planning for the next crop. (Journal photo by Jennifer Carrico.)
Agriculture Finance, Farmland, finance, Opinion, Ranchland

A new year’s checklist for borrowers: What ag lenders want to see

Input costs remain elevated, margins are tighter for many operations, and lenders are taking a closer look at risk. Read More

Trent Loos
Beef, Columns, Columns, Loos Tales, Opinion, Sheep and Goats, Swine

Red meat consumption is trendy, but…

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)
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Dry weather dominated much of the High Plains



Farmland

Land values holding steady as water increasingly affecting prices

Farm transition planning: How to get it right 

USDA cuts off funding for solar and wind energy projects on farmland 

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Cutting time maximized: Marshall delivers for farmers and ranchers

Rooting damage from feral hogs at a golf course in Viburnum, Mo. Photo courtesy of Kevin Crider.

Cooperation has cut Missouri’s feral hog numbers

A contractor hired by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission uses a helicopter to apply herbicide to phragmites, an invasive, noxious weed, at Niobrara Confluence Wildlife Management Area on the Missouri River near the village of Niobrara. Also known as common reed, phragmites is choking out native vegetation, reducing the amount of wildlife habitat available on the Missouri, Platte and other rivers, reservoirs and wetlands throughout the state. It is also an Aquatic Invasive Species. (Photo by Eric Fowler, for NEBRASKAland Magazine, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)

Is latest WOTUS revision the final chapter?

Konza Prairie Fires (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)

Prescribed fire season starts in Flint Hills

‘Ranch Conversation’ set for Feb. 19