The grain markets were positioned to react to basically anything that came out of today’s Quarterly Grain Stocks and Acreage Report, so when the friendly numbers came in, the prices jumped upwards and held those gains through the end of the day. Allendale commodity...
Farmer Grade, a new business idea birthed out of the rise of social media, is focusing on building trust with consumers. Sawyer Whisler, a farmer from southeast Iowa, wanted to do something different while selling meat directly from the farm to the table. So, he built...
United States Senator (R-IA) Chuck Grassley is home in Iowa this week as the Senate takes its Easter break and he has visited with Iowans in 11 counties as part of his yearly 99 county tour. He says that California’s Prop 12 law has been a big discussion topic with...
The Environmental Protection Agency agreed with recommendations from its Scientific Advisory Panel on atrazine. The recommendations remove several poor-quality studies that played a role in the agency’s recommendation for an ultra-low aquatic level of concern for...
Planters are getting ready to hit the fields all over the country, and farmers who aren’t in the field yet are chomping at the bit to get going. A few weeks remain in the Cornbelt before we get started in earnest. While farmers are excited to get going, the team at...
We all know that Ducks Unlimited (DU) is focused on wildlife conservation, especially when it comes to ducks, but that mission to preserve wildlife and the environment stretches far beyond that. This is especially noticeable when it comes to the fact that Ducks...
When applying crop nutrition farmers strive to be as efficient as possible with their application process. Using less product but still assuring high efficacy is the goal of AgroLiquid’s liquid fertilizer line-up. Reid Abbott is a regional agronomist with AgroLiquid...
Farm groups urged EPA administrator Michael Regan to swiftly grant a waiver that would allow summertime E15 sales and offset disruptions in the global energy markets. Joe Gilson, American Farm Bureau Federation government affairs director, said the waiver helps...
A 230-acre farm in Grundy County, Iowa, owned continually by the same family since plows first turned ground in the prairies in the 1870s, sold at a recent auction for almost four million dollars. Successful Farming says the Iowa century farm is historically...
A large part of growing demand for our agriculture products must come from educating our end users about the things they can do with our products and why our products are the industry standards for quality products. The U.S. Soybean Export Council has long been at the...
