Reports indicate that if the Army Corps of Engineers continues to restrict water from the Upper Missouri River, the Mississippi River (between the confluence with the Missouri in St. Louis to the Ohio River 180 miles south in Cairo, Illinois) will fall to 9 feet or...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.Farm groups, three governors and nearly 80 members of Congress are asking the President to step in to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from lowering water flows on the Missouri River and keep navigation open on...
Right-click on the audio players below to download audio.The clock in Washington is ticking as Congress? lame duck session hits the 15-days-left mark today. With three weeks left before they adjourn for the year, and not every day a legislative day, agricultural...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.With the EPA's decision on November 16 to deny requests that the RFS mandate be waived in light of hardship caused by this year's drought, attacks against the Renewable Fuel Standard have anything but...
Audio provided courtesy of Ron Hays with the Oklahoma Farm Report.Right-click on audio player below to download audio.House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas has said for months that, if an agreement is made to address the national deficit, there have to be...
Audio courtesy of Susan Carter with USDA.Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.On Wednesday USDA announced they'd be changing the way they calculate crop insurance premiums. While currently, the premium rate is calculated with equal weight given to...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.Low levels on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers are a system-wide problem. Now Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Mike Strain has joined a growing chorus of voices in asking President Obama...
Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.State Farm Insurance released information at the end of October ranking Iowa 3rd in the nation for deer vs. vehicle collisions. According to State Farm, one of every 72 or so Iowa drivers will strike a deer with...
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Barges like the one pictured above near Alton, IL, could come to a sudden halt if water levels south of St. Louis, MO, don't raise soon.Right-click on the audio player below to download audio.The US Army Corps of Engineers has begun to limit the flow of water on the...
