Corn planting progress appears to have fallen slightly behind the five-year average according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. With six percent of total corn acres planted by April16, progress fell three percentage points short of the...
Bower Trading Market Strategy Report: Wet Weather Could Send Market HigherDoug WerlingFor much of the past few weeks, the market has been focusing on the amount of planted corn and soybean acres. But, with rain continuing to delay fieldwork, Doug Werling, with Bower...
Donnelly visits West LafayetteDuring the Easter recess Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly made the trip to West Lafayette for a Donnelly Days visit to the Indiana Corn and Soybean Innovation Center. Following a staff and student led tour Thursday, Donnelly addressed a...
When science fails to back up your radical food views and the majority of consumers regard your dietary recommendations unpalatable, what do you do? You file a lawsuit, of course. That is the latest move by a group of vegan physicians. The Los Angeles, California,...
The Heritage Foundation?s Center for Free Markets and Regulatory Reform wrote an op-ed piece for the National Review.Com on agricultural subsidies. The piece, by a senior research fellow, refers to higher than expected costs for the Ag Risk Coverage (ARC) and the...
Very wetThis is the first of a series of special planting weather forecasts with Hoosier Ag Today chief meteorologist Ryan Martin, and they will run each Friday through the planting season and online at the Hoosier Ag Today website. Planting and field work conditions...
Continued immigration raids on American dairy farms could send milk prices soaring. Jaime Castaneda, Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Trade Policy for the National Milk Producers Federation, says the price of a gallon of milk could possibly approach...
Bees and VFDIf you raise cattle or pigs or poultry, any of the major livestock species, you are familiar with the veterinary feed directive. But there is at least one minor species that the directive caught by surprise.Before January 1 beekeepers could get medications...
Reebok will begin making shoes from corn and organic cotton later this year. The initiative is an effort to create more sustainable products. A Reebok spokesperson states, ?Reebok is trying to clean up the entire life cycle of shoe making.? Reebok says the sole of the...
U.S. tractor sales in March increased six percent compared to a year ago. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers released its monthly sales report this week. The report shows that for the first three months in 2017, a total of 42,033 tractors were sold which...
