Indiana farmer Ed Bell has a unique story of survival and success. He has been teaching others about the importance of overcoming the worst that life can throw at you—after he and his wife Debbie went through a horrific event that changed their lives more...
Wednesday night in the Purdue Memorial Union, 12 teams competed for a $20,000 grand prize in the Indiana Soybean Alliance annual Student Soybean Innovation Competition. To win, Purdue students had to develop novel applications for soybeans that satisfy a market...
The prices Indiana farmers are paying for fertilizer have slowly been coming down compared to what they had been this time last year. “Well, it's good news for the farmer for sure especially going into spring planning season,” says Corey Rosenbusch,...
The Indiana Farm Equipment and Technology Expo has made the difficult decision not to continue the Expo in its current form and under current management. The multiple reasons for this decision include increasing costs, labor shortages, and the desire by the two...
A new poll shows overwhelming support among voters for year-round access to E15 across the country. With retail gas prices still high, almost 70 percent of poll respondents support increasing the availability of E15 to help lower fuel prices and support energy...
The Protecting America's Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act of 2023 was introduced with bipartisan support last week in the U.S. Senate. The bill would prevent people associated with the governments of America’s foreign adversaries from buying U.S. farmland....
The U.S. Senate has joined the House in passing the Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval that seeks to overturn the EPA’s recently revised ‘Waters of the United States’ (WOTUS) rule. The legislation passed the Senate 53-43 after passing...
NutraMaize, a Purdue University-affiliated agriculture company whose nutritionally enhanced orange corn is currently marketed through a line of premium milled products under the brand Professor Torbert’s Orange Corn, has received a two-year, $650,000 Phase II Small...
The latest American Farm Bureau Market Intel Report shows the number of farm bankruptcies fell again in 2022. In Indiana, there were only two. Veronica Nigh, Farm Bureau senior economist, says the lower number of bankruptcy filings is good news. “2022 data from the...
The EPA’s recently revised ‘Waters of the U.S.’ rule, or WOTUS for short, is now in effect here in Indiana. The rule has drawn a lot of complaints—especially from one of Indiana’s largest farm owners. “A lot of Hoosier farmers will have a problem,” says Kip Tom,...
As we get set to turn the calendar to April, Purdue Extension Corn Specialist Dan Quinn shares his annual reminder to, “pay attention to soil conditions instead of the calendar date.” This is especially true this year after recent rains swept through Indiana...
