According to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 1.059 million barrels per day (b/d)?or 44.48 million gallons daily. That is up 46,000 b/d?a 4.6% jump from the week before and the highest volume in 28 weeks. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to...
In the August crop report, the USDA estimated Ohio corn yield at 171 bpa, a 12 bpa jump from the 2016 crop. This week the Ohio Ag Net and Ohio Country Journal set out on a statewide crop tour to assess Ohio yield expectations.On the first day of the tour, they...
Glass Barn Uses Virtual Reality to Tell Ag StoryThe Glass Barn at the Indiana State Fair has always been about using technology to teach about agriculture. Now, a new approach gives visitors a virtual farm experience. For the past several years, visitors to the Glass...
As NAFTA renegotiations begin on Wednesday, U.S. negotiators are planning to introduce a proposal aimed at making it easier for produce growers to bring potential anti-dumping cases against Mexico. That is a move that will make Southeast growers happy, but it could...
A new report issued on Monday shows the dicamba damage footprint is still growing. Both the number of investigations and damaged acres are climbing, especially in the Midwest. Kevin Bradley, a plant science professor at the University of Missouri, compiled the data...
SONY DSCPoet Biorefining ? Marion broke ground Aug. 15 to expand its production capacity from 70 million gallons per year to 150 million gallons per year. The project will also increase production of dried distillers grains from the current 178,000 tons annually to...
State Fair Farm Bill Listening Session More InclusiveIndiana Farm Bureau and Senator Joe Donnelly hosted a Farm Bill listening session at the Indiana State Fair on Tuesday. It was an event that represented sectors of agriculture that do not often get mentioned in Farm...
We kick off a new week the same way we ended the weekend?with dry, sunny, warm air in place. We will continue to see this pattern through Wednesday morning. Over the next 10 days we have 1 system moving through, with 2 systems in the next 16 days.Dry today through...
At this year?s Indiana State Fair, the focus is food ? not just one kind of food, but all kinds of food. As Fair officials are fond of pointing out, food is the number one reason people come to the Fair. Farm groups have gone all out to present a variety of new food...
Bower Trading Market Strategy Report: Market Waiting for Actual Yield DataThis week the market will be trying to figure out the long term ramifications of last week?s USDA crop production report. Most everyone in the market does not believe the USDA yield numbers...
