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What’s in store for used farm machinery markets in 2025, Machinery Pete?

Real Agriculture

After some supercharged years, the used farm equipment market took a tumble in 2024 and farmers can expect to see a further correction in 2025. Thats the take from Greg Peterson, the man farm equipment buyers and sellers more commonly refer to as Machinery Pete.

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Resetting the farm to manage 10-year market plateau

Real Agriculture

Without new demand for corn and soybeans, producers are facing a sideways market plateau that could last 10 years. to $10.40, says University of Illinois farm management professor Gary Read More Without new demand for corn and soybeans, producers are facing a sideways market plateau that could last 10 years.

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Canadian government should compensate farmers for losses due to Chinese tariffs: farm groups

Real Agriculture

A growing list of farm groups are publicly calling for compensation from the Canadian government for lost farmgate revenue as a result of Chinas sanctions on Canadian agricultural exports.

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Farm profitability pressure and trade’s value to rural areas

Real Agriculture

There’s no two-ways about it: 2025 is going to be a challenging season for farm profitability. John Newton, executive head of Terrain, spoke with RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney at the National Association of… Read More There’s no two-ways about it: 2025 is going to be a challenging season for farm profitability.

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This ratio could be the key to long-term profitability in ranching

Real Agriculture

Farming can be a high risk business and that is as true in ranching as it is in other agricultural sectors. While 2024 saw some excellent highs in the cattle markets, Burke Teichert, a consultant, writer, and public speaker, says in this interview at the Western Canada Conference on Soil Health and Grazing, that these Read More

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RealAg Radio: Farm equipment economics, market direction, and Woman of the Year, Feb 19, 2025

Real Agriculture

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Jim McCormick of AgMarket.net to discuss where the markets are headed; Kimberly Ratcliffe, Woman of the Year at Top Producer 2025 on her story and their turnkey farm; Matt Clark with Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio brought to you by Koch Agronomic Services.

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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

And yet, what we have learned from our African colleagues is that without simultaneously investing in healthy local markets, these investments in sustainable production are likely to fall short. Local markets are climate resilient. Remember that family farms continue to feed 70 percent of the worlds population.