Armed with only the best of prognostication tools, here are the 2026 agricultural stories that people will be talking about.

On Christmas Eve 2022, parts of Archer Daniels Midland’s Fremont, Nebraska, grain processing plant were damaged in an explosion. A mechanical malfunction had created a spark and combustible grain dust ...

While nearly the same amount of corn and soybean acres have been planted every year since the mid-1990s, the use of ...

This past year, China has significantly reduced purchases of U.S. agricultural exports in response to President Trump’s tariff hikes. U.S. farmers are struggling as Chinese companies have sought ...

U.S. farmers are facing one of the widest gaps in a decade between what they pay to produce food and what they earn from ...

Starting in 2020, consumers faced skyrocketing grocery store prices. A few factors were at play. The COVID-19 pandemic tied supply chains into knots. An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

From a new presidential administration and sweeping changes at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to the world’s largest retailer entering the beef industry and unchecked water use by a giant poultry ...

From the docks of the Port of Santos, a 58-terminal complex covering an area the size of 1,500 American football fields, ships loaded with soybeans prepare to set sail for China. Less than 45 miles ...

The nation’s cattle inventory is at its lowest level in decades, the result of a long-term decline that has been pushed even lower in recent years by drought. Much of the country endured severe dry ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...