Of all the headline items in ag equipment news over the past year, one stood out — autonomous machines. Deere officially launched its autonomous 8R tractor at the massive and influential Consumer Electronics Show in January.
Joe and Sue had been married for 45 years. It had been an exceptionally good partnership.
Brian Campbell is executive director with the Iowa Environmental Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan alliance of various organization and individuals including county solid waste agencies and conservation boards, the Iowa Farmers Union, hunting organizations and businesses.
Sixty years ago I learned to drive in a town of 200 where the biggest challenge for motorists was when two pick-up trucks stopped in the middle of Main Street in front of Woody and Ethel’s Tavern so the drivers could chat.
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg currently serves as distinguished professor of history at Iowa State University and teaches a wide variety of courses, from food history to rural and agricultural history to the United States in the first half of the 20th century. She is the author of a number of books,…
Harvest is over at Bohr Farms. The last of our harvested corn this year was stored in a 45-bushel tote and shipped to a company in western Iowa that makes whiskey from local-grown corn.
Adam Nielsen is director of national legislation and policy development at Illinois Farm Bureau, where he has served for the past 22 years.
Marty Marr calls it a privilege to be president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association as it celebrates its 50th birthday this year. He has been a director for nine years, a member of several committees and worked his way up through leadership. He is active with national issues including f…
As a youngster I noticed that many older folks were still using old things. My paternal grandparents, for instance, still used an ancient oscillating fan that had a minimal guard around the blades. Our parents warned us boys to not get our fingers in the way of the blades. Curious little bro…
Agriculture and the well-being of consumers will improve together with advances in sustainable farming, according to scientific experts from around the world who met to exchange information during a conference in Odense, Denmark, this past August. The conference was entitled Public and Occup…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association called on the Environmental Protection Agency to pause their “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule-making following the recent Supreme Court oral arguments in the case Sackett v. EPA, a case that will determine the EPA’s autho…
I run across situations where one party, or both parties, have decided that their estate plan isn’t fair or equitable. I have also had recent contact with landlords that think the tenant is taking advantage of the farm lease and is not paying an appropriate cash lease rate.
We often joke about our “job titles” on the farm. In the fall, my title is Director of Logistics, which translates into semi driver and grain cart operator. In the spring, my job is Manager of Seed Deposition (planter operator).
If farm equipment were an item on a lunch menu, the big-shouldered four-wheel-drives would be the roast beef sandwich and mashed potatoes — smothered with gravy. Awesome, down-to-earth, belly-pleasing power! And with fall seeding and tillage work at hand, it’s time to unleash these acre-eati…
Just last night I was traveling home on my gravel road after dark. I could see headlights of an approaching vehicle, which I thought was a pickup. As we passed each other, I startled a bit as I realized it was actually a tractor and was much wider than I anticipated.
Krista Swanson is an agricultural economist and research analyst for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Swanson studies economics and policy topics which impact farmers, including traditional farm policy, trade and tax legislation and both proposed policy and passed legislation tha…
As new trends and challenges in crop production emerge — adoption of strip till, managing higher residue levels, new requirements for soil and nutrient management — tillage tools continue to transform and evolve. And while they don’t garner the headlines of a new EV tractor, these new develo…
Tom and his wife, Beth, were and always had been dairy farmers. Their two older children, a son and daughter, had both joined the farming operation after college. Their youngest son became a pharmacist, which was fine with Tom as he believed each child should get to a vocation they enjoyed.
Now more than ever, there is strong demand for a transition plan that can meet a family’s definition of a “fair” plan for land transition yet is flexible enough to change with the planning environment.
One of the scarier events of the past 40 years for some of us older baby boomers was the advent of the personal computer. We saw them coming in the ’70s, and by the ’80s many of us were expected to actually learn how to operate a PC.
A few years ago a farming friend told me during one of our periodic conversations over morning coffee, “If you want to know a little bit about something, just ask me — I only know a little bit.”
Jeff was excited to start his new building project. Two years had passed since he and his wife moved off the home farm, allowing his son to take over his operation. They had purchased an acreage just a few miles away with a nice house and a few small, outdated buildings.
As I’ve grown older, I have avoided becoming a grumpy old man. For the most part.
I was heading north along I-35 through central Iowa on a blistering hot August day when I came upon the flashing yellow caution lights and tattered red flags of a lumbering oversize semi load. Even from a quarter mile away, this load looked unusual … and way larger than most.
During the pandemic, when some consumers were faced with no milk at their local grocery stores, Bryan Henrichs, a third-generation dairy farmer, reassured them. He let them know via video and social media he was working for them every day, caring for his cows and producing milk in Saint Rose…
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