“Since the first of the year, there haven’t been many highs made in the land market in the Midwest,” says Doug Hensley, president of Hertz Farm Management. “Whether you’re in Illinois, Iowa, southern Minnesota or Nebraska, it’s all the same story — strong land values but no new highs.”

The number of farms in the U.S. is declining while the average farm size increases and land in farms remains relatively constant. Here's the latest numbers from USDA’s Economic Research Service.

In an effort to reduce duplicative training and increase accessibly of USDA-NRCS programs to farmers, there are efforts to streamline the accreditation of Technical Service Providers with Certified Crop Adviser and other private-industry programs.

Are some of those so-called fad diets really good for your heart? What a new study has to say, in today's AgDay Minute.