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• The U.S. Farm Machinery & Equipment Market: Sales, Inventories, and Tariff Headwinds
  The U.S. farm machinery and equipment market experienced challenges across many fronts in 2025. Recent data suggests many new and used equipment sales categories continued to decline last year. Additionally,…
• Now Would Seem Like a Good Time to Think Seriously About the CRP
  Now would seem to be a good time to think seriously about the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). A few simple modifications might provide an important release valve for the pressures building up against row-crop farmers. The consequences of missing this opportunity could be dire for many farmers, while also ultimately very expensive for the American […]
• Rewriting the RFS Playbook: The Impact of No Half-RIN and Higher RVOs on Projected Biomass-Based Diesel Production and Feedstock Use for 2026-2027
  A particularly controversial part of the EPA proposals for the RFS in 2026-27 is the limitation of imported biofuel and feedstock to 50% of the RINs generated by domestic biofuel and feedstock. There has been widespread reporting in recent weeks that the so-called “half RIN” proposal may be eliminated in the final rulemaking. This article […]