Indiana Farmers Union has a terrific line-up for this year?s annual convention, to be held November 18 at Taxman Fortville, 29 S. Main St., Fortville. This free event offers a full lunch buffet by Taxman Fortville, a film screening of ?Farmers For America,? giveaways,...
What Will We Do with Alll This Corn?Tom SleightThe 2017 corn crop just keeps getting bigger. The question now is: what are we going to do with all this corn? The USDA report released on Thursday raised the average corn yield 4 bpa and pushed the overall size of the...
Rain-chances-could-interrupt-harvestRyan MartinIs more rain on the way to interrupt what?s left of harvest again? In the new Seed Consultants harvest forecast Ryan Martin, Hoosier Ag Today chief meteorologist, says there are three systems that could move through...
State Conservationist Jane Hardisty announced today that Indiana?s USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is making funding available to help landowners protect and restore key farmlands, grasslands and wetlands across Indiana. The funding is provided...
Perdue-on-NAFTAPresident Trump?s aggressive trade strategy of threatening to pull out of existing agreements without big concessions to the U.S. is being both defended and criticized in farm circles. The President is again taking a hard line with U.S. trading partners...
Consumers have been saving money thanks to ethanol for years, but never as much as today. Nearly every consumer that chooses ethanol at the pump is saving money, whether using regular unleaded with 10% ethanol (E10), mid-grade with 15% ethanol (E15), or any one of the...
JD Dot Com, Inc., says it will buy $2 billion worth of U.S. goods, over half of which will be beef and pork. The deal comes at the same time President Donald Trump is in China. JD Dot Com, China?s second-largest online mall, will buy more than $1.2 billion worth of...
USDA-biotech-rulesUSDA is withdrawing its proposed revisions of regulations involving review and approval of new biotech crops. Those revisions were published at the beginning of the year. It was back in 2014 that USDA said they were beginning a process to revise and...
It is Not Too Early to Work on Crop InsuranceFor most Indiana farmers, harvest is just wrapping up and the planning process for 2018 is in its early stages. Yet, it is not too early to begin to consider your crop insurance options. According to Jason Alexander, Senior...
The World Health Organization issued a strong statement this week against the use of all antibiotics in healthy food-producing animals. The WHO says overuse and misuse of antibiotics in both animals and humans is contributing to the buildup of antibiotic resistance....
