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Farm transitioning can be a tricky and time-consuming process — especially if not all the children want to continue on the farm.
RED OAK, Iowa — Pace Chaillie believes his love of science and math has helped him excel in the 4-H food competition categories.
Handling grain harvest duties around livestock needs makes for hectic times and busy hands on Midwest farms.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 5 ordered expanded access to the tax-exempt, dyed diesel fuel typically used to power heavy agricultural and construction equipment operated off public roads.
The USDA released its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report Sept. 24, and it showed lower hog inventory and breeding herd numbers than a year ago.
Editor’s note: In the first column in this series, Val Farmer wrote a fictitious letter created to summarize a common complaint attributed to a rural woman called “Carol.”
"Some of my very best childhood memories occurred in Walgren’s Supermarket."
It’s 3 a.m. in the Sandhills, and while it’s not my usual hour to be writing a column, it’s the time I felt like, for once in the last month, I had the most clarity on the chaos that’s been whirling around my mind here lately. It’s nothing bad, just a season of uncertainty at times.
Youth are getting a unique 360-degree view of agricultural production in different states through a new, interactive virtual reality program.
"No one has ever accused my shop of being a place where you can eat off the floor. And they won’t say that everything has its place."
For two weeks, Jordan Uldrich has been looking at his soybean field that’s ready to harvest, but wet weather is keeping his combine parked.
Farmer sentiment has worsened. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index decreased from 135 points in August to 123 points in September. Both subindices also declined, with the Index of Current Conditions decreasing by 18 points and the Index of Future Expectations decreasin…
The phone rang at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 29, 2006, in our farmhouse in Richland County, Wisconsin. It was tragic news.
Enthusiasm for deer and turkey hunting places hunters in new habitats and finds some looking down from above in an open-grown white oak tree. They are archers and cross-bowers probably hunting deer, but also maybe Wisconsin’s wild turkeys.
From 2014 to 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program invested a total of $133.7 million in no-till and reduce-till practices, out of a total of $10 billion in conservation financial assistance. Tillage practices are a critical component of natural-…
Farm transitioning can be a tricky and time-consuming process — especially if not all the children want to continue on the farm.
RED OAK, Iowa — Pace Chaillie believes his love of science and math has helped him excel in the 4-H food competition categories.
Handling grain harvest duties around livestock needs makes for hectic times and busy hands on Midwest farms.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 5 ordered expanded access to the tax-exempt, dyed diesel fuel typically used to power heavy agricultural and construction equipment operated off public roads.
The USDA released its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report Sept. 24, and it showed lower hog inventory and breeding herd numbers than a year ago.
Editor’s note: In the first column in this series, Val Farmer wrote a fictitious letter created to summarize a common complaint attributed to a rural woman called “Carol.”
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While women of all ages should be aware of breast health, the mammogram is the number one tool for detecting early breast cancers for women age 40 and older and younger women at higher risk.
Damon Becker was motivated to convert the farm’s crop acres to forage the year he had to purchase hay to feed his cattle. “I hated it. I hated everything about it.”
"Music has been a household staple in the Woster families since Mother Marie played her first hymn, all by ear I might add, when she was about 6 years old."
Alfalfa is a highly nutritious forage option that consistently delivers high values of crude protein, digestibility, and the ability to support animal performance at any stage, making it a desirable forage resource for most livestock operations.
From liver to Salisbury steaks, make the most of your meat with these recipes.
Pig health is key, was the message Joel Nerem, a veterinarian at Pipestone, brought to swine producers, researchers and industry leaders at the 10th annual Swine Day at South Dakota State University Sept. 29.
Canola harvest has nearly wrapped up across North Dakota with some areas of the northern part of the state remaining to be harvested before colder weather sets in. The USDA issued its first production estimate for major crops on Oct. 9, and average canola yields in the state are significantl…
The “single biggest yield robber” for soybeans in the U.S. is soybean cyst nematode (SCN) – a silent yield killer because it doesn’t show clear symptoms above ground.
Although there were no big announcements of extended U.S. soybean export sales when President Trump and President Xi of China met in September, demand for U.S. soybeans remains good, as do prices.
With the northern U.S. durum harvest complete, the market now awaits to see what the final production and quality of the Canadian durum crop will be to provide more direction. In the meantime, durum prices continue to hold steady with where they were in late September.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recent Quarterly Stocks Report showed that sunflower stocks have risen substantially. The report didn’t have a huge impact on prices though, as they remained unchanged to up 50 cents and new crop contracts were also unchanged.
Spring wheat prices have continued to drift down from the highs in September due in large part to a lack of new news related to geopolitical issues and the fact that any production issues have been accounted for already in the markets.
Farm transitioning can be a tricky and time-consuming process — especially if not all the children want to continue on the farm.
RED OAK, Iowa — Pace Chaillie believes his love of science and math has helped him excel in the 4-H food competition categories.
Handling grain harvest duties around livestock needs makes for hectic times and busy hands on Midwest farms.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Oct. 5 ordered expanded access to the tax-exempt, dyed diesel fuel typically used to power heavy agricultural and construction equipment operated off public roads.
The USDA released its quarterly Hogs and Pigs report Sept. 24, and it showed lower hog inventory and breeding herd numbers than a year ago.
Editor’s note: In the first column in this series, Val Farmer wrote a fictitious letter created to summarize a common complaint attributed to a rural woman called “Carol.”
Canola harvest has nearly wrapped up across North Dakota with some areas of the northern part of the state remaining to be harvested before colder weather sets in. The USDA issued its first production estimate for major crops on Oct. 9, and average canola yields in the state are significantl…
The “single biggest yield robber” for soybeans in the U.S. is soybean cyst nematode (SCN) – a silent yield killer because it doesn’t show clear symptoms above ground.
With the northern U.S. durum harvest complete, the market now awaits to see what the final production and quality of the Canadian durum crop will be to provide more direction. In the meantime, durum prices continue to hold steady with where they were in late September.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recent Quarterly Stocks Report showed that sunflower stocks have risen substantially. The report didn’t have a huge impact on prices though, as they remained unchanged to up 50 cents and new crop contracts were also unchanged.
Spring wheat prices have continued to drift down from the highs in September due in large part to a lack of new news related to geopolitical issues and the fact that any production issues have been accounted for already in the markets.
U.S. corn prices felt the pressure from USDA’s September Quarterly Stocks Report, which shocked the corn market when it was released on Sept. 30.
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