"We got a light sprinkle through the night. We need a heck of a lot more. The hills look absolutely sick."
- Katelyn Winberg
Increasingly, consumers are looking to buy food grown from local producers, but knowing where to find it can be a challenge.
- Sue Roesler
Urea prices, along with other nitrogen fertilizers, will squeeze farmers’ pockets this planting season, unless producers have already locked in prices for the year and can count on their co-op having the supply needed.
- Ellie Kluetzman For Agri-View
POYNETTE, Wis. – The sun was shining brightly and there was a promise of 75 degrees for the day’s high as I pulled into the driveway of Doherty’s Beef Company near Poynette. I was immediately confronted with a drama on the home’s front steps; a week-old calf was in dire straits. A kindly nei…
- By MORGAN GARRISON
Montana State University (MSU) recently announced they are accepting applicants for their new Growth through Research Opportunities and Work (GROW) agriculture scholars’ program. GROW is a one-of-a-kind program available to graduating high school students who are excited and passionate about…
Gary Powles has worked his entire life as a cattlemen, making great improvements on his ranch.
- Katelyn Winberg
When South Dakota farmers need a ballpark figure for what to charge or pay for custom work, many have long looked across the border.
- Sue Roesler
Wheat growers are able to have both high yields and top quality in the same sample of wheat, a fact which the National Wheat Yield Contest (NWYC) set out to prove when the contest added Top-Quality Awards to the yield awards a few years ago.
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
Dad was a farmer through and through, even as a kid. From my experience as a teacher, most farm kids would rather be outside helping on the farm than sitting at a desk in a classroom. Dad was no different. He told me how the neighbor lady came to the house one day and asked his mom if “Tommy…
- Benjamin Herrold
When it comes to spring calving or fall calving, cattle producers have a variety of factors to consider.
There are few memories of long-ago farm days that bring as many reactions as recollections of old outhouses. One mention of the little building out back brings both smiles and turned up noses.
- Tim Kenyon
OAKLAND, Iowa — The farm keeps the family strong, and the family strengthens the farm.
- Sue Roesler
CARRINGTON, N.D. – When cow/calf producers are breeding this summer, they may look back at their spring calves and wonder about how valuable they really were.
- Benjamin Herrold
May is National Beef Month, an opportunity to celebrate livestock producers and the beef they raise.
- Benjamin Herrold
Spring is a time for optimism for cattle producers, with grass greening up and growing, and spring calves arriving.
- Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Poets and ancients called it the center of our intelligence, our emotion … our soul.
- By Zoe Martin, Iowa Farmer Today
DES MOINES, Iowa — The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced confirmed cases of the pseudorabies virus in swine herds in Iowa and Texas April 30.
- Jim Woster
What in the world did we do on Good Friday that resulted in a three-hour service? The youngsters were not the only fidgety folk in the church. If I recall correctly, during Easter week, spring planting had often already begun.
- Kristen Sindelar
Despite all his “irons in the fire,” UNL student and entrepreneur Nathan Rippe has started a new metal project. He wants to help FFA and ag students prepare for their future.
Tractors were rolling – sporadically – in the south-central and western regions of the state in mid-April, planting mostly spring wheat and pulses for the 2026 season, but cold, wet soils are keeping farmers in other parts of the state waiting to get into the fields.
Mark and Jodi Berhow sheltered in their basement before an EF-1 tornado touched down — shattering a living room window and scattering rain and glass inside — near their home in southeast Iowa April 17.
- Colleen Stegenga
Farm families know something about showing up. You show up for planting, for calving, for harvest, for neighbors down the road when hail takes their crop. But when it comes to caring for your own aging parents ... the "who does what" can get complicated fast.
- By MORGAN GARRISON
Montana Safflower, a cold-press oil company owned by Montana Farmers Union (MFU), held its grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, April 13, in Great Falls, Mont. The business represents the crossroads where innovation and Montana-grown quality meet to create a value-added, end-use …
- Julie_Belschner
SAN ANTONIO – Marion Calmer often shares the stage with Fred Below, University of Illinois crop expert, through the years at Commodity Classic; the two long-time friends talk crops research. Calmer's been farming for 50 years and doing on-farm research for 40 years. He’s been no-tilling for …
- Janelle Atyeo
A multinational, farm-by-farm study of regenerative agriculture is offering farmers validation and hope.
- Paula Peterson
Right this very minute down on the farm, I am remembering Rule 1 in farming with livestock. If you move bulls from one pasture to another, it is a fabulous idea to make sure all the gates are shut inside the barn where the pasture they moved to has access.
- Tim Kenyon
Editor’s note: The stories on this page are part of series featuring regional conservation partnerships for Soil and Water Conservation Week April 28 through May 5.
- Crystal Reed
For Illinois Beef Association President Shannon Welsh, a sixth-generation beef producer based in McDonough County, Illinois, the beauty of the business is the variety.
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