If you have a maple tree and a bucket, you can make maple syrup. Each spring, sugarmakers in every corner of Indiana collect maple sap and boil it down to syrup in the first harvest of the year. Maple Weekend, which celebrates this sweet tradition, took place March...
Is a fungicide program part of the plan this year? It has become a bigger part of the plan in the last three years across the Corn Belt as the number of acres treated has almost doubled. “A lot of that's because of the performance we're seeing from these newer...
The ag industry’s top farm equipment manufacturers all have their newest items and latest technologies on display during the National Farm Machinery Show at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. Among those manufacturers is Case IH, who says supply chain...
The Department of Agriculture expects farm sector income to decline in 2023. USDA’s February Farm Income Report shows net farm income, a broad measure of farm profitability, is currently forecast at $137 billion in 2023. American Farm Bureau Federation Economist...
Farmers still have time to be counted in the 2022 Census of Agriculture, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Although the deadline for submitting the ag census just passed, NASS will continue to accept completed census questionnaires...
President Joe Biden Wednesday announced his intent to nominate Xochitl Torres Small to serve as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture at USDA. The Senate confirmed Torres Small to serve as the Under Secretary for Rural Development on October 7, 2021. Before serving as...
As your Indiana lawmakers are putting together the state’s budget for the next two years, several ag groups, including Indiana Farm Bureau, are pushing for additional funding for the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University. “Indiana is so rich in...
The National Farm Machinery Show runs Wednesday through Saturday at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. With over 1.2 million square feet of exhibit space, the National Farm Machinery Show is the largest indoor farm show in the United States. Farmers from...
Mexico officials issued a new decree on Monday calling for a revision to the ban on imports of biotech corn used for certain purposes, effective immediately. The decree also indicated the Mexican government would continue to allow imports of biotech corn used as...
Getting everyone to agree on something is very difficult to do in politics, but freshman State Representative Kendell Culp was able to pull that off with his first bill introduced in the Indiana House. House Bill 1557, a bill that would inventory the farmland we’ve...
The farmed fish industry, aquaculture, has become huge across the globe. “Farmed fish is now bigger than all land-based meat with exception of poultry,” says Jeff Johnson, president of Benson Hill Seeds. Farmed fish is also bigger than wild-caught fish. The scope...
