Magellan Midstream Partners, the Tulsa, Okla.-based transportation, storage, and distribution company, is now offering blending services for E15?a fuel with 15 percent ethanol?throughout their midcontinent terminal system. Magellan owns the longest refined petroleum...
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Are Those Big Corn Yields Really Out there?
Are Those Big Corn Yields Really Out there?With harvest ramping up, we may finally begin to get some actual yield results. Many farmers have been skeptical of the yields estimates forecast by USDA. While early yield results have been extremely variable, some areas of...
Above Normal U.S. Temps Through the End of 2017
The National Weather Service is calling for above normal temperatures in the contiguous ? U.S. over the last three months of 2017. The National Weather Service says the greatest chance of warmth comes in the Four Corners Region between October and December. This could...
Cooler Temps to Follow Hot, Dry Period
Dry-and-warm-harvest-weatherRyan MartinThis is the first of a series of special harvest weather forecasts with Hoosier Ag Today chief meteorologist Ryan Martin, and they will be featured each Friday through the harvest season and online at the Hoosier Ag Today...
Farm Safety Week Focuses on Confined Spaces
SPONSORS Culp-on-farm-safetyThis week during National Farm Safety and Health week there is a different point of emphasis for each day. Thursday the focus is Confined Spaces in Agriculture which would include grain bins and manure pits. Kendell Culp is a Jasper County...
The Combine Monitor isn?t Telling You Everything
Keep-walking-fieldsAs harvest 17 begins, season long evaluation of the crop continues, but now it?s really crunch time. Daniel Call, General Manager of Seed Consultants says considering what the crop has gone through this growing season, he?s not surprised when he...
Donnelly Leads Push for Export Funding
Joe DonnellyOne area of the new Farm Bill that faces an uphill fight is funding for market development. Funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development Program (FMD) has remained steady for several years, but Sen. Joe Donnelly and a group of...
EPA Mulling Options on Dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency aims to allow farmers to use dicamba next year, but with additional rules in place. An EPA official in the agency?s Office of Pesticide Programs said the agency had not yet determined what steps it would take to mitigate problems...
McKinney Makes Case for USDA Post at Senate Ag Committee Hearing
McKinney-hearingTuesday the Senate Agriculture Committee conducted their hearing to consider the nominations of Steve Censky of Missouri to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Indiana?s Ted McKinney for Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign...
Getting a Grip on Family Living Costs
Getting a Grip on Family Living CostsWhen discussing the financial aspects of a farming operation, the focus typically is on production costs, equipment, and cash rents. Yet, research has shown that over the past decade family living costs have increased more than...