2019 was a challenging year for farmers. Trade wars affected markets and commodity prices, hardships where faced during planting and harvest, and many farmers rounded out the year with poor yields. Despite the challenges, 2020 came around just the same and as winter melts into spring, farmer…
After a rough 2019 planting season, South Dakota State University Extension agronomist Jonathan Kleinjan said it’s best if producers just don’t base decisions off the – hopefully – anomalous year.
Trade wars, slow growth, and expanded production from key competitors may influence demand for major U.S. crops in 2020. The shortfall in world protein due to disease issues throughout Asia looks to encourage livestock production and domestic crop demand for feed.
Livestock producers will be monitoring the nutritional needs of their animals through the co…
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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. – Fusarium head blight (FHB), also known as scab, remains a hard red spr…
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WATERLOO, Ill. — This is where Oliver tractors are reborn.
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Map shows jail time for violating state records laws. Only penalties explicitly included in those laws were included.Maximum civil fine for a first offense of open records law. Only provisions which penalized under-disclosure were counted.Sometimes not much happens when government officials …
Patrick Angel on his farm near London,Ky. (Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu)Coal companies are required to reclaim mined land when they're done with a site, but one Interior Department inspector realized that the companies' practices weren't encouraging forests to grow back. So the native of Ea…
Photo from Asian Carp Regional Coordinating CommitteeState and federal fish and wildlife agencies have spent about $607 million altogether to stop the spread of Asian carp since 2004. As more Southern states try to stop the invasive species, that total is expected to hit about $1.5 billion o…
A federal appeals court ruled Friday against the work requirements that some states have tried to impose on Medicaid enrollees who are not "medically frail" and had no dependents.The Trump administration was arbitrary and capricious when it approved plans from Kentucky and Arkansas, a three-…
Andy Barrow and "Stosh" Webb Jr. (Photo by Matt Smith)Andy Barrow and his younger half-brother Ronald Stanley "Stosh" Webb Jr. have much in common: They were born in Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, voted for President Trump, and are combat veterans and firefighters. But Barrow is white and W…
Late plantings in 2019 may have helped combat a pest problem that has popped up in recent years, according to an Iowa State University Extension researcher.
As worries about coronavirus spread, impacts have already been felt globally in the grain markets.
The recently released December trade statistics finalized 2019, giving analysts a look at the export trends for the year, which saw pork set records.
Iowa State University researchers, with funding from the soybean checkoff through the United Soybean Board and Iowa Soybean Association, have confirmed that over 70 isolates of the pathogen Cercospora sojina (cause of frogeye leaf spot in soybeans in Iowa) are resistant to quinone outside inhibitor (QoI) fungicides.
Iowa is well known for growing many large crops and vast amounts of livestock. We are constantly working to improve our ag technology and improve our farming practices. I’ve even seen newer and fancier machine sheds than the house or dwelling on that building site!
