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The area of the continental U.S. plagued by drought has more than doubled since Feb. 2011, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor....More

Record-high calf prices don’t necessarily mean record-high profits in the beef business....More

The ability of U.S. producers to feed a burgeoning global population depends on nine crucial factors, according to Jim Wiesemeyer, senior vice-president, Informa Economics....More

More than 60 percent of the lower 48 states is still experiencing drought conditions, and the dry spell is expected to persist through at least February in most areas, according to the U.S. Climate Prediction Center....More

Of factors lending themselves to predictability in weather forecasting, temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean are proving among the most reliable, says John Nielsen-Gammon, regents professor at Texas A&M University and Texas state climatologist....More

The Lewis and Clarke expedition into the sprawling prairies and thickets of the Western wilderness may be romanticized today, but some 200 years ago it was an undertaking inspired by hard political reality....More

It's a quickly emerging common concern among farmers throughout the world....More

China's continued influence on agricultural commodity demand and global economic growth, along with increasing weather extremes, stand out as key issues for North American food, beverage and agribusiness in 2013, a recent poll of Rabobank clients shows....More

Last summer’s scorching Midwest drought not only took a drastic toll on the nation’s corn yields, it sent livestock feed prices soaring and caused an unusually quick and sharp reduction in beef, pork, and poultry numbers that will have repercussions through 2013....More

A return to more normal U.S. corn yields in 2013 could send new-crop prices spiraling downward, but persistent drought in some of the nation’s top corn-producing states could have the opposite effect....More

The overall quality of the 2012 U.S. corn crop is high and improves upon last year's very good marks across a range of test factors, according to the U.S. Grains Council's Corn Harvest Quality Report 2012/13....More

With very dry conditions setting in, most winter wheat stands in Texas are already severely stressed....More