According to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 1.054 million barrels per day (b/d)?or 44.27 million gallons daily. That is a 10,000 b/d increase from the week before and a seven-week high. The four-week average for ethanol production increased to 1.041 million b/d...
Purdue Research Park-based Spensa Technologies Inc. is expanding its footprint. The precision agriculture company has reached an agreement with Linden-based non-GMO seed company Spectrum Seed involving pest population data collection throughout the Corn Belt.Growers...
Wet April comingRyan MartinMarch is on its way out and now the main spring planting consideration revolves around the condition of Indiana soils. Will the ground allow farmers to get the planting equipment in and off to a good start? Hoosier Ag Today chief...
A federal judge approved a settlement agreement between the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, limiting EPA?s release of information on livestock farmers. Under the agreement, the...
An Obama era program that would have shut down the Indiana coal industry and hiked Hoosier electric rates was formally thrown on the scrap heap on Tuesday. President Trump, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency...
Farm Mom nominations dueIf you think you know the best farm mom in America, then nominate her for Monsanto?s America?s Farmers Mom of the Year. The nomination deadline is Friday. The program head, Tracy Mueller, says the program has done a great job since its 2010...
Oil prices settled at a roughly one-week high Tuesday, buoyed by disruptions to Libyan crude production and talk of a six-month extension to an OPEC-led pact to limit global output.May West Texas Intermediate crude oil?the U.S. benchmark?rose 64 cents, or 1.3%, to...
National Corn Growers Association President Wesley SpurlockThe Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) risk management program and crop insurance have been critical to helping corn farmers during a weak farm economy and should be maintained in the next farm bill, National...
The European Union has approved the Dow DuPont merger after the companies agreed to sell substantial assets including key research and development activities. The EU approved the $130 billion deal Monday after Dow and DuPont agreed to address concerns that the merger...
State of the Art hog barnA Wabash County hog farm, Cinder Trail Farms, located southwest of North Manchester, Indiana, is set for production next month in a state of the art hog building that was designed and produced by AirWorks, a division of Whiteshire Hamroc in...
