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  • An attendee enters the cab of a John Deere 9470RT track tractor from Deere & Co. as farm equipment is displayed during the World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California on February 11, 2025. US farmers have also been affected by the Trump administration’s attempts to shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the US government previously spending billions of dollars on food aid from American farmers, while tariffs and trade wars threaten to disrupt business. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    Deere surges to record on optimism for upturn in farm economy

    By Gerson Freitas Jr. and Bloomberg
  • Poultry sits in bins at the Pleasant Valley Poultry processing facility in Baltic, Ohio, U.S., on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. A consortium of 13 poultry-related organizations sent a letter to two leaders of a US Senate group representing chicken producers, requesting direct financial assistance to offset hardships related to the coronavirus (COVID-19), Meat + Poultry Magazine reported. Photographer: Dane Rhys/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEnvironment

    Chicken prices to finally fall thanks to boom in renewable fuel: ‘A tailwind for the protein industry’

    By Gerson Freitas Jr., Tarso Veloso, and others
  • ADMFinance

    Archer-Daniels-Midland plunged by a record 23% after suspending its CFO and cutting its outlook on an internal accounting probe

    By Gerson Freitas Jr., Simon Casey, and others
  • winter stormEnvironment

    America’s electrical grid barely escaped a calamity as massive storm exposes a vulnerable natural-gas infrastructure

    By Gerson Freitas Jr., Naureen S. Malik, and others
  • A cold woman adjusts her thermostat.Finance

    ‘It’s going to be pretty bad’: This part of the US is hurtling towards a winter heating crisis and consumers could pay the highest prices in decades

    By Gerson Freitas Jr., Naureen S. Malik, and others
  • Natural gas sits in storage tanks at the Amerada Hess gas processing plant adjacent to the Henry Hub, a facility operated by Chevron Corp. subsidiary Sabine Pipe Line LLC, in Erath, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Natural gas futures fell to an 11-month low after an Energy Department report today showed that U.S. stockpiles rose more than forecast last week. Henry Hub is the delivery point for New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) natural gas futures contracts. Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Gas at one U.S. hub is trading at $999. Last week it was at $4

    By Naureen S. Malik, Gerson Freitas Jr., and others