Given farmers' current financial concerns, the bet by Farmland Partners, a real estate investment trust that continues to expand its portfolio of farmland ownership despite the market situation, was a surprise.
Most farmers are rapidly cutting expenses and pushing back against land lease rates considered too high given the bearish market situation. Thus, the bet by Farmland Partners, a real estate investment trust that continues to expand its portfolio of farmland ownership despite the market situation, was a surprise. The company just boosted its holdings by a fifth and now controls 100,000 acres. It will reportedly continue to add land, believing that increasingly higher yields will offset crop price declines. This may also mean an opp...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...