Energy
Firm to Farm: Kansas Supreme Court Clarifies the Marketable Condition Rule for Natural Gas Royalties
Cooper-Clark highlights a key lesson for producers and royalty owners: in oil-and-gas royalty disputes, lease language and marketing facts are crucial.
Farm Bureau economist Dr. Faith Parum discusses rising diesel prices, farm input costs, potential export restrictions, and the outlook for 2027.
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst says the next major step for the Farm Bill will come after the November elections — with Proposition 12, year-round E15, foreign farmland ownership, and negotiations over a five-year bill among the issues still in focus.
GasBuddy says seasonal trends and potential U.S.-Iran talks could influence fuel prices.
Data center growth is increasing demand for power and water, raising questions about utilities, on-site generation, and impacts on rural communities.
Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and a Senate Ag Committee member, said Nebraska producers want certainty, disaster assistance, and more markets. The legislation now awaits consideration by the full Senate, but must be done by Sept. 30.
The CHS facility is expected to produce soybean oil and meal beginning in 2028.
The new law removes another barrier to E15 sales in the nation’s largest gasoline market.
Record diesel prices are adding to harvest and grain transportation costs.
India is projected to account for 13.7% of global urea capacity additions through 2030.
As harvest enters the Corn Belt, Lewis Williamson of HTS Commodities says markets will compare those yields with the Mid-South’s bumper crop.
China’s sustainable jet fuel exports are growing, which could increase demand for renewable feedstocks such as used cooking oil.
Refining margins accounted for most of diesel’s price increase since February.
National Farmers Union President Rob Larew recaps this week’s Washington fly-in, NFU’s Farm Bill priorities, and the growing economic pressure on producers.
NCGA President Jed Bower discusses the Farm Bill and why year-round E15, making it into the final bill, is critical for corn growers as input costs continue to eat away at margins.
Seven of eight major fertilizer types remain more expensive than a year ago.
