We’re living in the season of hope. Welcome to spring!
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Benjamin Herrold
Drought conditions in many major cattle-producing regions of the U.S. could be an obstacle to herd rebuilding efforts.
- Crystal Reed
Drought in the western Plains has some farmers concerned, while the southeast and the upper Midwest is wetter than usual.
As planting season ramps up, uncertainty around the season does as well. Wyffels Hybrids has introduced a free, online tool that can help take some of the guess-work out of spring field work.
Chad Dillenberger is a Monroe County native. His experience spans roles in finance as well as hands-on management as the fourth generation on a 1,600-acre grain farm in Valmeyer. He has two boys, Henry, 18, and Liam, 15, and has been married to Katie, his high school sweetheart, for 21 years.Â
Drew DeSutter farms with his dad Jim, uncle Randy and cousin Matthew in Knox, Mercer and Henry counties. He returned to the farm after graduating from the University of Illinois in 2009 with a degree in ag business and farm management. The family follows a 50-50 corn-soybean rotation and has…
Tom is a co-owner of Leeper Family Farms LLC which in Decatur in Macon County. They raise corn, soybeans, wheat and hay. Tom farms with his son Evan Leeper and son-in-law Nate Doty. He has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science from Illinois State University. He is a CCA and sells seed …
AMES, Iowa — Drones are beginning to play a role in Iowa agriculture, particularly for crop monitoring and pesticide application, but most farmers remain uncertain about the technology’s advantages and limitations, according to results from the 2025 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll, an annual s…
Editor’s note: The following was written by Russell Shaffer, University of Nebraska communications specialist.
The accelerating demand for protein-rich foods is opening new doors for U.S. dairy producers, as major food manufacturers increasingly turn to dairy-based ingredients to meet evolving consumer protein preferences.
Editor’s note: The following was written by Matheus Ribeiro, Jenny Brhel, Adam Leise, Travis J. Prochaska, David S. Wangila, Dylan Mangel and Justin McMechan, University of Nebraska Extension specialists, for the university’s Crop Watch website April 9.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative Agriculture is bringing together women landowners at in-person gatherings in Missouri, Iowa and Kansas this year.
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