Corned beef, which accounts for less than 1 percent of overall beef sales in the U.S. throughout the year, sees an increase of 9 percent each March from St. Patrick?s Day celebrators. This St. Patrick?s Day, falling on a Friday, left Catholics without a chance to...
?Get Out of My Space? Theme for Agricultural Safety Awareness Program WeekSafety WeekFarm Bureaus across Indiana and the nation recognized last week as Agricultural Safety Awareness Program Week. ?Get Out of My Space? was the theme of the week. Kalena Bruce, chair of...
A coalition of agriculture groups is urging President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to protect crop insurance. Sixty national farm, lending, ag input, conservation, and crop insurance organizations, led by the Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau, sent a letter...
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) supports President Donald Trump?s decision to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the final determination of greenhouse gas standards (GHG) for model year (MY) 2022-2025 light-duty vehicles and, in harmony...
According to EIA data, ethanol production averaged 1.045 million barrels per day (b/d)?or 43.89 million gallons daily, 2% higher than the prior week and the highest weekly production in more than a month. The four-week average for ethanol production bumped up to 1.034...
Sales of farm equipment posted an increase in February, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacture?s monthly report on sales. For February 2017, the report says tractor sales in the United States were 13 percent higher compared to February of last year. For...
A new study has found private crop insurance company returns have declined significantly since the 2010 renegotiation of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement between the insurance companies and the federal government. The findings in the study, commissioned by the...
President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping in April at Trump?s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The two-day meeting is tentatively scheduled for April 6 ? 7. The planned summit would follow a string of other recent U.S.-China meetings and conversations...
The White House has sent the Senate Agriculture Committee financial disclosure documents for Sonny Perdue, President Donald Trump?s Agriculture Secretary nominee. By sending the information to the committee, the White House has now opened a path to holding a...
Many Ranchers Wiped out as Wildfires Race Across Western StatesHundreds of thousands of acres of pastureland have been burned as wildfires roll across Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. High winds have made the fires hard to control. Losses by ranchers are...
