Trump’s Trade War Is Making US Farmers Anxious About Demand Risk April 11, 2025 By Michael Hirtzer, Dayanne Sousa and Ilena Peng Josh Yoder, a fifth-generation farmer in Ohio, has been watching gyrations in the crop markets as Donald Trump moved to...
Crop Trader Declares Force Majeure Along US Gulf During Rare Southern Snow January 24, 2025 By Michael Hirtzer One of the world’s biggest crop traders has halted loading of grain vessels at US Gulf terminals as the region’s...
Mississippi River Dries Up Again at Worst Time for US Farmers October 25, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer and Brian K. Sullivan The Mississippi River is suffering from low waters for the third straight autumn, a crucial time of year when American...
Vibrant Green Fields Signal a Big US Corn Crop and Weak Prices August 23, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer and Gerson Freitas Jr. Between hail, strong winds, floods and plant disease, US corn crops were put through some tough times this summer. But...
Deere Retreats From Diversity Measures After Online Attacks July 17, 2024 By Simone Foxman and Michael Hirtzer Deere & Co., the world’s top farm machinery maker, is pulling back from diversity measures in the face of conservative...
Robots, Drones and Driverless Tractors Usher In New Age of Farming July 2, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer Tractors plow the farm fields without drivers, guided by satellites and iPhones. Solar-powered robots tend to plants on the ground...
Bird Flu Hits Texas, Kansas Milk in First Sign of Impact June 21, 2024 By Michael Hirtzer US milk production is starting to get hit by the bird flu virus, which first made the jump to cows...
Top US Egg Maker Idles Texas Plant After Bird Flu Outbreak April 3, 2024 By Gerson Freitas Jr. and Michael Hirtzer Cal-Maine Foods Inc., the biggest egg producer in the US, has culled roughly 3.6% of its flock after birds at...
US Corn Harvest Is in Trouble August 25, 2023 By Tarso Veloso, Millie Munshi and Michael Hirtzer Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks...
Farmers Set to Abandon Wheat Crops at Highest Rate Since 1917 May 15, 2023 By Michael Hirtzer and Tarso Veloso America’s wheat fields have become so plagued by drought that farmers are now poised to abandon crops at the highest...