Editorial Standards

US Farm News exists to give farmers and agribusiness readers accurate, useful information fast. These are the rules every story follows.

The two-source rule

Every article draws on at least two independent sources. Typically that means a news report plus primary data: a USDA report, a university analysis, a company filing, a press release, a YouTube interview or a podcast episode. We read or watch the sources, check the facts against each other, and write an original article in our own words. We don’t republish other outlets’ articles.

Attribution

• We name and link our sources in the text of the article, right where we use them (for example, “according to a USDA report” with a link to the report).
• Quotes are attributed to the person who said them and the outlet or recording where they said it, such as “told Brownfield Ag News” or “said in a farmdoc webinar.” We never invent quotes, and we don’t present a quote as an interview we did ourselves.
• Numbers come from the cited source. When sources disagree, we say so.

Market data

Our market board shows delayed quotes for agricultural ETFs and agribusiness stocks supplied by TradingView. Exchange futures prices are licensed data, so we don’t display them in widgets. When an article mentions futures prices or settlements, it cites the source that reported them. Nothing on this site is trading advice.

Images

Every image on US Farm News is original: illustrations we create ourselves (some made with AI image tools and labeled as illustrations) or charts and graphics we build from the data cited in the story. We do not use news, wire, stock or social media photos, and we never hotlink images from other sites. Illustrations show representative scenes, not the specific farms, people or products named in a story.

Corrections

If we get something wrong, we fix it and add a dated correction note to the story. Report errors through our contact page (choose “Correction”).

Independence, advertising and sponsored content

Advertising, including Google AdSense, is labeled and kept separate from news content. Advertisers and sponsors don’t review, approve or influence stories, and buying an ad doesn’t buy coverage.

• Every paid placement is labeled. Sponsored articles, sponsored mentions inside articles, section and category sponsorships, and newsletter sponsorships carry a Sponsored label that names the sponsor. Featured and Premier directory listings are labeled as paid listings.
• Links in paid placements use rel="sponsored". Sponsored articles are marked as sponsored in our structured data and left out of our Google News sitemap.
• Sponsored content follows the same accuracy rules as our news: no invented quotes, no unsupported claims, and specifications are drawn from published sources.

Business directory

The Farm Dealer & Service Directory is free to join. We started it from public government lists, such as the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s licensing lists, and we cite the source on each listing. Businesses can claim a listing to correct it. A free listing is unpaid, so it doesn’t need a label. When a listed business is relevant to a story, our editors may mention it the same way they’d mention any other source, but a free listing never guarantees a mention. Mentions that a business pays for are always labeled Sponsored.