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As another challenging Midwest growing season ends, farmers consider management practices that could close the gap between red ink and profitability.
Though it was nearly 40 (gulp) years ago, I still remember the lesson well.
Dairy farming has come a long way from hand milking cows one by one in the early morning hours.
Recent information published by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Farm Bureau organizations has given rise to questions about what is happening with hobby farm classification and what smaller producers need to do to be in compliance as a for-profit business entity able to claim f…
University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said beef cutout prices have struggled recently, and pork values have as well.
The grain market is searching for harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
The Uldrich crew made good progress on harvest in late October. Yields were all over the board.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service researchers and their collaborators recently decoded a gene in wheat, labeled H13, that protects some varieties of the grain crop from Hessian fly larvae, whose appetite claims approximately $100 million’s worth of the annual U.S…
"I may be a fifth-generation rancher, but that doesn’t mean that I’m the generation that gets to quit learning."
With deep family farm roots and a heart for farming, Oakland-Craig FFA’s president feels strongly about his chapter’s “Feed the Farmer” community event held in mid-October. As a young farmer himself growing up on a row crop farm with cattle and show pigs, Tate Penke believes appreciation goe…
“When it comes to meat, farmers and ranchers (at least this one) are cheap, humble and spoiled.”
Right this very minute down on the farm, I am embracing new opportunities even if the timing is less than perfect.
Wisconsin’s winters are warming as are the entire country’s winters. Much of Wisconsin has seen the most extreme changes in average winter temperatures, of 4-6 degrees Fahrenheit or more. About 15 to 25 days have been warmer-than-average winter days.
It's that time of the year again. Agri-View offers a list of available agricultural scholarships.
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service researchers and their collaborators recently decoded a gene in wheat, labeled H13, that protects some varieties of the grain crop from Hessian fly larvae, whose appetite claims approximately $100 million’s worth of the annual U.S…
Randy Romanski, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, kicked off Sept. 17 the seventh Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council term. The virtual session included presentations and discussion.
The polar vortex is doing something extraordinary. Something unusual is happening in the skies above the Arctic, but will it have any impact on our weather here in the United States?
As another challenging Midwest growing season ends, farmers consider management practices that could close the gap between red ink and profitability.
Though it was nearly 40 (gulp) years ago, I still remember the lesson well.
Dairy farming has come a long way from hand milking cows one by one in the early morning hours.
Recent information published by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Farm Bureau organizations has given rise to questions about what is happening with hobby farm classification and what smaller producers need to do to be in compliance as a for-profit business entity able to claim f…
University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said beef cutout prices have struggled recently, and pork values have as well.
The grain market is searching for harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
"I may be a fifth-generation rancher, but that doesn’t mean that I’m the generation that gets to quit learning."
New resources are available to help farmers make commodity program election decisions for the 2026 crop year ahead of the Dec. 11 enrollment deadline.
A South Dakota company is sending it's soy-based product around the world to feed fish, with about 80% going to the Norwegian Atlantic salmon market.
A gift of the deed – in this case referred to as the “remainder deed” – is not something to take any less seriously than any other moves in estate planning.
The first farmer feature in our series, The Road Ahead: Meet Kaleb Smit who spent the better part of two years planning how he could come back to work on the farm where he grew up.
Buckwheat – Fagopyrum esculentum Moench – is a broadleaf plant native to northern Asia. Seeds are brown in color, about the size of a soybean but irregularly shaped, with four triangular surfaces. The seeds germinate and emerge rapidly when planted in warm soil, typically in three to four da…
After seeing prices increase in September and into early October, wheat, like some other commodities, has started to see prices weaken slightly.
Harvest of the 2026 U.S. corn crop was well past the halfway point by the end of October, both here in the Northern Plains as well as nationally, and as producers pushed toward the end, they also saw prices begin to feel typical harvest pressure.
A gift of the deed – in this case referred to as the “remainder deed” – is not something to take any less seriously than any other moves in estate planning.
The top resource concern in North Dakota’s counties is salinity – that was identified by every Soil Conservation District (SCD) in the state.
The first farmer feature in our series, The Road Ahead: Meet Kaleb Smit who spent the better part of two years planning how he could come back to work on the farm where he grew up.
Harvest is a warp, and yields were some of the best Megan Horsager has ever seen on her Montevideo, Minnesota, farm.
As another challenging Midwest growing season ends, farmers consider management practices that could close the gap between red ink and profitability.
Though it was nearly 40 (gulp) years ago, I still remember the lesson well.
Dairy farming has come a long way from hand milking cows one by one in the early morning hours.
Recent information published by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Farm Bureau organizations has given rise to questions about what is happening with hobby farm classification and what smaller producers need to do to be in compliance as a for-profit business entity able to claim f…
University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said beef cutout prices have struggled recently, and pork values have as well.
The grain market is searching for harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
After seeing prices increase in September and into early October, wheat, like some other commodities, has started to see prices weaken slightly.
Harvest of the 2026 U.S. corn crop was well past the halfway point by the end of October, both here in the Northern Plains as well as nationally, and as producers pushed toward the end, they also saw prices begin to feel typical harvest pressure.
The first farmer feature in our series, The Road Ahead: Meet Kaleb Smit who spent the better part of two years planning how he could come back to work on the farm where he grew up.
A scoop of soybean meal may look much like the next, but Kansas State University researchers are finding that what is inside the feed ingredient – and how it is measured – can vary.
WING, N.D. – As the sun moved higher in the sky on an unseasonably warm October day, trucks pulling horse trailers with draft horses or hauling farm machines from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, along with vehicles filled with friends, neighbors and farm families, pulled into Larry and Judy …
As summer comes to an end and temperatures cool, it is time to start preparing the stand for winter.
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