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In 1984, Farm Journal’s personal ads connected Pat, a farm girl from Iowa, with Doug, a dairyman from New York, sparking a love story that led to marriage and the fourth generation of Fuller Acres Farm.

Vice President Kamala Harris recently floated this policy to crack down on price gouging, but looking back on a similar plan from the Nixon administration shows not everything needs a second chance.

When ag equipment manufacturers start shedding union line workers, shuttering plants and shifting factories to Mexico, and there’s a glut of used equipment covering dealer lots, you know the tide is quickly turning.

Some long-time Washington contacts still give the odds of a farm bill this year at only 15%.

Lance Sommers has transformed his family’s 2,000-acre grain and dairy farm by integrating technology and boosting efficiency to free up time to refocus efforts on other aspects of their operation.

CME spot markets got off to a slow start for this holiday week.

Writing from the level land of the Delta just outside of Clarksdale, Miss., Bennett has blogged for several years on agriculture, surrounded by cotton and plenty of cottonmouths.

Chip’s hometown of Oxford Junction is in east-central Iowa. His family farm was a typical diversified farm with corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, a commercial cattle herd, a farrow-to-finish hog operation and sheep. After graduating from Iowa State University, Chip joined Pro Farmer in January 1988 as a floor reporter for Futures World News. He spent 3 years in Chicago reporting from the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Chip moved to Pro Farmer headquarters in April 1991, was named editor in 1997 and remained in that role for 17 years. In 2014 he started the P.M. hour of AgriTalk and became the host of both hours of AgriTalk in 2019.

Greg Peterson, known as Machinery Pete, has built a network of 950 regional auctioneers, 600 ag lenders, 2,000 implement dealers and thousands of farmers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Since 1989, Machinery Pete has compiled more than 500,000 auction prices on used farm and construction equipment sold throughout North America. A widely sought-out speaker, Peterson regularly presents to farmer and investor audiences. He has more than 44,000 Facebook fans. In 2014, his YouTube videos tallied 6 million minutes. In 2015, Machinery Pete launched a dealer listings site with analytics and marketing services for equipment dealers. Peterson is the multimedia expert on used equipment values for Farm Journal Media, including print and broadcast. Going into its third season, Machinery Pete TV, a weekly 30-minute show, launched on RFD-TV in November 2013.