With an increase in severe storms and high winds, row crop farmers are looking for new ways to work with Mother Nature.
- Tim Kenyon
Hundreds of Iowa students will continue to get hands-on opportunities to bone up on agricultural knowledge thanks to the Iowa Agriculture Literacy Foundation.
Editor’s note: The following was written by by Joana Colussi and Michael Langemeier with the Purdue University Center for Commercial Agriculture for the center’s website Feb. 23.
- Crystal Reed
Trent Ford is the Illinois State Climatologist and has been with the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois since 2019.
- Tim Kenyon
Tamara Deal sees a bigger picture when it comes to her family farm.
- Crystal Reed
Amy Heberling of Morrisonville, Illinois, is a fourth-generation, “after-hours” farmer who wears many hats.
- By Laura Handke, For Iowa Farmer Today
Behind the seasonal flooding outlooks released by the National Weather Service is a team of hydrologists and meteorologists that watches the changing conditions across thousands of miles of river, tributaries and watersheds.
- Crystal Reed
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — This year’s Illinois Beef Expo at the Illinois State Fairgrounds had a new event — a fitting competition featuring seven teams of four people each returned this year.
- Zoe Martin
Heather Conrow is a University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist for Boone, Howard and Randolph counties, as well as the statewide poultry specialist.
- By Jeff DeYoung, Iowa Farmer Today
DES MOINES, Iowa — Bill Goehring has bought and sold cattle at the Iowa Beef Expo for many years, and one of those purchases paid a big dividend recently. The southeast Iowa producer sold the top-selling Hereford bull at this year’s annual event.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — It’s small, inexpensive, doesn’t require batteries or charging, and it could save your life.
Editor’s note: The following was written by Jameson Brennan, assistant professor and South Dakota State University Extension livestock grazing specialist, with Logan Vandermark and Hector Menendez for the university’s website Feb. 13.
Editor’s note: The following was written by Eric Yu and Ryan Miller, University of Minnesota Extension crops educators, for the Minnesota Crop News website Feb. 17.
Consumers’ demand for beef — not just shrinking cattle numbers — is playing a central role in shaping prices and profitability across the U.S. beef supply chain, according to research from Kansas State University agricultural economists.
Editor’s note: The following was written by Chad Fiechter and Josh Strine with Purdue University Feb. 2.
- Tim Kenyon
Multiple days of much warmer than usual conditions in late January and February might have nudged Midwest farmers eager to get ready for planting.
- By Tim Kenyon, Iowa Farmer Today
The USDA released its first look at planting expectations for 2026 on Feb. 19 at its Agricultural Outlook Forum as farmers brace for a fourth straight year of losses or small profit margins.
- Tim Kenyon
Visitors step back in time when they visit the Rural School Museum in Odebolt, Iowa, housed in a building that opened to students in 1883.
- Crystal Reed
Genetics and breeding is a long game, and you have to see things to the end.
- Crystal Reed
Ahead of the growing season, economists offered farmers their expectations for prices, profit and demand in 2026 and beyond
- Crystal Reed
With planting season right around the corner, farmers are evaluating tractors and adjusting tillage equipment and planters.
BOONVILLE, Mo. — Pesticide handling remains one of the most hazardous tasks on the farm, says Todd Lorenz, University of Missouri Extension agronomist.
- By Michael Phillis, Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 6 reapproved the weed killer dicamba, a pesticide that has raised widespread concern over its tendency to drift and destroy nearby crops, for use on genetically modified soybeans and cotton.
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