A Florida teacher is on the verge of losing his job after bullying and harassing FFA students who were raising livestock to be sold for slaughter. Thomas Allison, Jr., who teaches middle school at the Horizon Academy at Marion Oaks, has been placed on unpaid leave. A...
U.S. Fuel Ethanol exports are up sharply in the current marketing year, thanks in part to tighter fuel supplies in Brazil, which are resulting in higher U.S. imports. The change can be traced to an increase in the price of sugar in Brazil, which comes from stronger...
U.S. Senators Joe Donnelly, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), and 13 other senators today introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the biodiesel tax credit and extend the new policy for three years. The American Renewable Fuel and Job Creation Act of...
Martins wet and cold forecastThe planting update for Indiana this week is progress, lots of it. But the new planting forecast includes rain and cold conditions. HAT chief meteorologist Ryan Martin is based in Indiana and provides an updated planting forecast every...
President Donald Trump says he has agreed to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, rather than terminate the agreement. Following news that the White House was preparing an executive order to terminate NAFTA, the President said on Twitter Thursday that...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture?s recent Cold Storage Report showed record reductions of beef and pork, which means demand for the products remains high. At the other end of the spectrum, chicken stocks remain historically high. Total beef in cold storage dropped...
According to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 987,000 barrels per day (b/d)?or 41.5 million gallons daily. That is down 7,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production dropped to 996,000 b/d?the first time in 25 weeks to hit below a...
Armyworms on the March in IndianaWith a wet early spring in Indiana, knocking back cover crops in time for planting has been an issue in some areas. Dry weather this past week has allowed many growers to get this done along with burndown of fall annual weeds. This...
President Trump promised during his campaign that the U.S. would withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA. It now looks like he is about to make good on his promise. Following reports Wednesday that an executive order is being prepared that would...
Perdue confirmation finallyIt finally happened and it was a no-doubter. The US Senate confirmed Sonny Perdue as the 31st US Secretary of Agriculture late Monday after a lengthy confirmation process.?The yeas are 87, the nays are 11, one senator responded ?present. The...
