When farmers select their varieties and hybrids, plant the seed and raise their crop, they face challenges from the weather, insects, weeds, diseases and economic factors.
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Do you remember the day you left home to strike out on your own? I do. It was in October 59 years ago.
- Tim Kenyon
The good vibes keep going at Wasted Grain Bar & Grill in Carroll, Iowa.
- Tim Kenyon
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.
- Crystal Reed
Dairy farming has come a long way from hand milking cows one by one in the early morning hours.
- By Laura Handke
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…
- Benjamin Herrold
University of Tennessee Ag Economist Andrew Griffith said beef cutout prices have struggled recently, and pork values have as well.
- Crystal Reed
The grain market is searching for harvest lows, said Don Roose at U.S. Commodities.
- By Benjamin Herrold, Iowa Farmer Today
Farmers continue to balance the needs of their operation with tight profit margins and high input costs.
- Tim Kenyon
In Iowa, Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and Gov. Kim Reynolds opted against running for another term, leaving the field open to new leaders concerned with economics, health, education and property rights.
- Crystal Reed
Illinois residents will go to the polls Nov. 3 to consider two major statewide races for governor and U.S. Senate.
- Benjamin Herrold
This year’s Nov. 3 general election is relatively quiet in Missouri and for agricultural issues in the state.
- Crystal Reed
The issues at play in the Nov. 3 midterm aren’t necessarily ag issues. People are struggling with economic uncertainty throughout the United States, said University of Illinois agriculture policy professor Jonathan Coppess.
- By Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register
Marcia Miller has won some 530 ribbons in the Iowa State Fair’s baking competitions with all manner of cakes, cookies and pastries, but she’d never made a red raspberry pie.
- By Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today
THOMPSON, Mo. — After hot, dry weather in August, northeast Missouri farmer Chad Bruns said corn harvest got started in early September and then picked up the pace in mid-September. He said moisture was in the upper teens or low 20s in most cornfields at the time.
Harvest was moving quickly during this year's Missouri Farmer Today Harvest Survey.
- Crystal Reed
Nitrogen application in the fall and winter might need to be delayed this year with the appearance of a Super El Niño.
This column responds to a common complaint of women married to work-driven farmers who neglect important family responsibilities in their quest to make their agricultural enterprise successful.
- By Kim McMichael
Our eyes are something a lot of us take for granted. We get up every morning, expecting to open our eyes with clear vision, with very little consideration toward how vulnerable our eyes can be throughout the day.
- Benjamin Herrold
Analysts expected an increase in feedlot inventory in the latest USDA report, but instead inventory was down. The Livestock Marketing Information Center said the inventory decline was nearly half a percent.
- Crystal Reed
World leadership changes and the U.S. midterm election are affecting commodity markets.
- Benjamin Herrold
NORBORNE, Mo .— On an early October day, Nathan White was harvesting corn, seeing the variety of this year’s crop.
- ZoeMartin
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Perfect timing. That’s what Ryan Semke credits for record yields from his river bottom corn fields in St. Charles County.
- Benjamin Herrold
ROCK PORT, Mo. — On a late September day, farmers in Atchison County were easing into fields, looking for dry areas and getting some ground harvested between rains.
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