ag production

Farmland prices shot up more than 40% after COVID and never really dropped. Now data centers are competing with farmers for the same flat, well-drained acreage, and rural communities often have no zoning rules to slow that shift.

A bill before the California state legislature would help pay landowners who promise to keep their land in farming.  Amid a push by local leaders to conserve farmland and open spaces in the Bay Area from future development, state senator David Cortese has introduced a bill that would shore up funding to preserve agricultural land throughout the state despite the measure’s uncertain financial outlo

The USDA is scheduled to release a slew of crop forecasts, including one for the corn and soybean crop Friday morning.   “Really not expecting any big changes that crop seems to be pretty well set at this point," noted USDA Outlook chairman Mark Jekanowsk.  But the marke...

What changes occurred in global total factor production, or TFP, for agriculture over a decades time?   “During 2013 to 2022 average annual global TFP growth fell to only 0.74%,” noted Tom Thompson of Virginia Tech University.  He said that number...