Drones continue to provide opportunities to improve management of crops as they become more mainstream and less of a novelty in agriculture.
Most Midwestern farmers apply nutrients to fields either in the fall or before planting in the spring. But new technologies could allow them to change the timing of those applications, making them more efficient and environmentally friendly.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The strangest part of visiting Up Top Acres is when the owner reminds people not to get too close to the edge.
NEW ORLEANS, La. — At a learning center session at the Commodity Classic, farmers and conservationists talked about using precision agriculture to make conservation decisions on the farm. Farmers can use data to find out which acres are underperforming or even losing money, and possibly conv…
DES MOINES, Iowa — As has so often been the case, the biofuels industry is facing some good news and some bad news from Washington, D.C., according to industry leaders gathered last week for the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit.
A growing number of farmers are trading the face-to-face meeting in the banker’s office with the click of a mouse.
AMES, Iowa — Farmers and those employed in the agricultural industry should be mindful of the risks involved with internet security and what they can do to keep themselves and their companies safe.
NORMAL, Ill. — When a friend came to Rich Follmer with a problem of low yields on his no-till ground in 1988, the innovator had no idea that his solution would one day earn him the title of “grandfather of strip-tillage.”
ATLANTA, Ind. — Grant Strom, a farmer in western Illinois, worries about how supply chain shortages may affect him in the coming year. He made sure he has all the parts that might break during harvest and has already made other purchases for the 2022 planting season.
URBANA, Ill. — The old workhorse of a feed mill for the University of Illinois officially retired in March, and the structure is set to be torn down this fall. Replacing it with state-of-the-art equipment on a new site nearby in Urbana is the Feed Technology Center.
Things are looking up, but they are also very much up in the air when it comes to ethanol this year.
Zeroes and ones are nearly as important to modern agriculture as seeds and acres. Keeping those digits private is a never-ending battle.
Technology isn’t just a young man’s game, particularly in agriculture.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been meeting up with powerful women in Madison — from politicians to business owners, health care workers and academics — and we all remarked on how teeth-gnashingly hard the past 19 months have been for moms, daughters, sisters and female partners.
Few issues are more contentious than what children learn in school.
World Dairy Expo at Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.
Don’t ignore Hispanic Heritage Month -- it’s not a perfect spotlight on the creativity and energy Latinos bring to this country’s evolution, but it is much better than no recognition at all.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — In a busy, occasionally contentious legislative session, agricultural groups saw several priorities passed by the Missouri General Assembly as the state sorted through its redistricting responsibilities and the largest budget in the state’s history.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Months before the first issue of Iowa Farmer Today rolled off the press in September 1984, a small group of staffers began to lay the groundwork for the new weekly publication.
Illinois State University won the Sweepstakes Grand Champion Award at the annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture judging competition and conference in North Platte, Nebraska, April 2.
AMES, Iowa — Warmer temperatures and drier conditions are in the forecast, and farmers will be in the fields in full force. That means more equipment will be on the roadways in the coming days.
It was the second time this month Black Lives Matter protesters took their case to the Dane County district attorney's home.
Most homeless people are not routinely causing problems for police, a study finds, but a core group of chronic offenders burns through resources.
Homeless young people are recruited in shopping mall food courts, on Facebook, outside emergency shelters or the Dane County job center, bus transfer stations during the school year, and motels.
Brittany Carter, homeless since age 15, wants a stable place to call home and a new start on life, but she's still struggling to fulfill her dreams.
The turnout at nursing homes in Brown, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Racine counties in 2020 was not much different from the turnout in 2016.
The clear insinuation was that someone not qualified to conduct an election improperly influenced these vulnerable voters. But the Wisconsin State Journal could not confirm the data.
The report is the latest to show that there was not widespread fraud in Wisconsin.
The State Journal editorial board has endorsed Democrats and Republicans for president in modern history. Scroll down to see who the newspaper recommended to its readers over the last four decades -- and then some.
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