by Dustin Hoffmann | Feb 17, 2022 | 5 Ag Stories, News
The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) has been a hot topic over the past several years. Small refinery exemptions have been handed out like Halloween candy to companies that do not qualify for them, and big oil has been doing all it can to keep their hold on the energy...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Feb 16, 2022 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Late last week, a letter came out from Bayer about a situation that has developed in their supply chain for glyphosate products. This letter caused quite a stir in the Ag Twitter Universe.Dr. Udo Schneider, Global Head of Active Ingredient Manufacturing at Bayer said...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Feb 16, 2022 | 5 Ag Stories, News
2021 was a year of question marks, variability, and perseverance in Iowa. Northern Iowa needed rain. Southeast Iowa wanted to turn the rain off. We had reports of diseases in the south and rootworms in the north. Variability like this, in such a small region, can make...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Feb 15, 2022 | 5 Ag Stories, News
Back in 2015, the worst thing that poultry producers could go through, happened. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) hit the upper Midwest. Iowa was one of the hardest-hit states, due to its large populations of egg layers, chickens, and turkeys. It led to the...
by Dustin Hoffmann | Feb 14, 2022 | 5 Ag Stories, News
We still have a little more than a year and a half left on the 2018 Farm Bill. It doesn?t seem like it was that long ago that we were talking about getting everything passed and implemented.While a year and a half certainly seems like a long time; when you are...
