Farm and Ranch Report

Parts of the western United States continue to be hit with record flooding, wind storms, and atmospheric rivers.

Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins announced earlier this month the USDA will make $12 billion available in one time bridge payments to American farmers.

Last week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a $700 million Regenerative Pilot Program.

There is nothing more valuable to a farmer than their land.

Companies like FORT Robotics have developed a deep expertise in safety when it comes to artificial intelligence.

Technology continues to get better every year, but farmers need tech to be ready to work consistently before they're willing to make the investment.

Farmer and AgTonomy CEO Tim Bucher recommends highlighting the technology being applied to today's farming options.

Fuel savings have become an often overlooked advantage for farmers utilizing their technology.

Greenhouses have the advantage of controlling a lot of these variables, allowing for autonomy to quickly fit into the sector.

Netafim sees a lot of future opportunities in serving greenhouse growers.

With tighter margins and rising costs across all industries, many farmers are looking for new ways to keep their operations moving forward.

Bringing autonomy to agriculture is not just about replacing humans with robots.

Burro has small people-scale robots operating in a variety of agricultural operations around the country.

Vertical farming has largely fallen out of favor, but there is another segment of indoor agriculture that continues to grow steadily year after year.

Vertical farming has largely fallen out of favor, but there is another segment of indoor agriculture that continues to grow steadily year after year.

There's an art to designing these tools more to be simple, durable and user-friendly for farmers.

What makes sense for one farm may be completely unrealistic for another.

More and more farmers are finding uses for drones in their operations. But if you haven't yet tried drones out on your operation how should you start?

Farms today are collecting more data than ever before, but that doesn't always mean that information can be utilized and trusted.

Todd Kirwan says when he wanted to implement AgWorld software in the farming operation he managed, he could see exactly when they went from skeptical to excited.

A lot of agtech is expensive, but farming without technology can be pretty expensive as well.

Agrivoltaics are starting to move beyond just using sheep grazing under solar panels to include cash crops.

One big benefit to precision spray technology: less phytotoxicity on the crop itself.

In recent years, a number of viable precision spray technologies have hit the agricultural market, with several of them targeting vegetable crops.

Possibly the type of autonomy making the most inroads in our industry are smart implements, especially those offering precision spraying in vegetable crops.

In these challenging times for the farm economy, there's not a lot of funding left for capital improvements like modernizing an irrigation pivot.

when it comes to experimenting with regenerative farming practices, Dr. Erin Silva says you don't have to go it alone.

Regenerative agriculture is not just for small scale farmers and homesteaders. Dr. Erin Silva works with producers across Wisconsin of all different sizes and goals.

Joe Whitworth of Freshwater Trust says they've now made it easier for growers to access public funds through technology.

While this science takes time, it gets further complicated when a field is treated as a complex system instead of just a medium for producing yield.

Farmers and ranchers are stewards of the land, so they are often the target when watersheds show signs of depletion or pollution.

Technology seems to be transforming many aspects of the agriculture industry and ag journalism is no exception.

In agricultural journalism, accurate reporting is essential to maintaining trust with farmers and others in the industry.

Brazil Potash is developing significantly more mining capacity for potash in the South American country.

Despite the demanding challenges of agricultural journalism, Todd Fitchette remains deeply committed to the field.

Domestic farmers are reliant on trade relationships and foreign suppliers of critical ag inputs like potash.

Economist Dr. Jada Thompson highlights how much cheaper disease prevention is rather than trying to manage a disease that has already arrived.

Beyond the higher consumer prices and animal losses, outbreaks are also very costly to monitor and contain.

Dr. Thompson says that the effects of this poultry disease reach far beyond farms, impacting consumer prices.

Founded in 2016 in northwest Washington, Cairnspring Mills is part of a growing movement of regenerative agriculture companies.

You may have even heard people say they can't eat bread in the U.S. but they can in Europe. Why would that be?