Under the agreement, Agri Stats would pay a fine and broaden whom it sold its pricing data to. The department said the move would help…

Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department…

The industry was a darling of the venture capital world 10 years ago. With many farms out of business, the remaining companies have scaled back.

Nearly 75 percent of farmers surveyed before the war said the crop sector was in a recession. They face bigger hurdles this planting season.

The agreement, which still faces legal hurdles, would cover current and future claims that the weedkiller caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.