Editor’s note: This is the third in a series on the 2025 Iowa Women Impacting Agriculture award winners.
- By Jeff DeYoung, Iowa Farmer Today
The combination of record calf prices and a short supply of grass has likely translated to less interest in backgrounding calves.
- Crystal Reed
When it comes to the spread of solar energy, it might be possible for crops and panels to coexist.
- Crystal Reed
Calf and feeder cattle markets have been pressured the past couple of weeks, said Andrew Griffith, livestock marketing specialist at University of Tennessee.
- By Laura Handke, For Missouri Farmer Today
In January, the Mark and Rebecca Smajstrla family loaded their livestock, their four daughters and their sense of adventure to make the trek north from Texas in an ice storm the state calls “historic.” Their new home in Weston, Missouri, was calling.
- Tim Kenyon
More comfortable temperatures lately make for opportune conditions to prepare for 2026 fencing needs.
What’s the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it — literally.
- Tim Kenyon
More comfortable temperatures lately make for opportune conditions to prepare for 2026 fencing needs.
- Crystal Reed
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.
- By Curt Wohleber, University of Missouri Extension information specialist
Editor’s note: The following was written by Curt Wohleber, University of Missouri Extension information specialist, for the university’s website March 3.
- Tim Kenyon
Grain markets are aiming for better results as they adjust to continued military action in the Middle East.
- Janelle Atyeo
“It would be very challenging if this were year one.”
As input costs remain top of mind for growers across the country, innovation can help farmers increase productivity while cutting expenses.
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.
- Crystal Reed
Staci and Jeremy Hill say their work bridges traditional agriculture and cooking skills and modern life, helping families reconnect with how food is grown, preserved and shared.
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