Technology changes number of cows milked on farms
Category: Commentary, Dairy, Miscellaneous
(AgriNews) - Much like other sectors of the agricultural... Full Story
Policy Pennings: Corn Prices Over the Years
Category: Commentary
(AgriNews) - As we look forward to Congress making progress... Full Story
Farm Bill, Trade Hold Top Spots for Farmer Focus in Nov. 6 Vote
Category: Farm Bill
(AgriNews) - Getting the farm bill across the finish line before 2018 ends... Full Story
USDA Lowers Winter Wheat Production Estimate
Category: Commentary, Grains, Miscellaneous
(AgriNews) -With about 83 percent of the nation’s winter wheat... Full Story
Meier: Crops Have Growth Spurt After Rain
Category: Commentary, Grains, Miscellaneous, Sugar
(AgriNews) - The rains came. I’ve heard reports of between 2 an 5.5 inches.... Full Story
Corn Exports Highlight USDA Supply, Demand Estimates
Category: Grains
(AgriNews) - An unexpected jump in corn exports lightened up what was anticipated to be a typically blasé February supply and demand report... Full Story
Farm Bureau Sets Policies for 2018
Category: Miscellaneous
(AgriNews) - Nearly 7,500 people attended the American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention... Full Story
‘Amazing’ Wheat: Stands Raise Prospects for Good Year
Category: Grains
(AgriNews) - Thanks to a mild and dry winter, Illinois wheat is heading into spring healthy and robust... Full Story
Bills Provide Help For Beginning Farmers
Category: Grains, Miscellaneous
(Agrinews.com) - The biggest dilemma for today's new farmers Full Story
Looking to Next Farm Bill
Category: Farm Bill, Grains, Miscellaneous, Oilseeds
(Agrinews) - Everybody, at least for the moment, loves.... Full Story
Warm Weather Brings Out Cover Crops’ True Colors
Category: Grains, Miscellaneous, Oilseeds
(Agrinews) - Warm 70-degree weather and a lack of snow.... Full Story
USDA Reports Support to Soybean Prices
(Agri News) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Jan. 12 released a set of reports with major implications for corn and soybean prices... Full Story
Bumper Crops, Lower Prices
(AgriNews) - As farmers begin to prepare and make decisions regarding their 2017 crop, eyes turn toward the market to see how the 2016 crop fared and where the prices will be in the coming months. Chris Hurt, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, shared what farmers might expect from the grain markets in 2017. “We are going to have corn prices that will be the lowest prices in 10 years,” Hurt said, adding that individuals would have to look back to the 2006... Full Story
Vilsack Expected to Become U.S. Dairy Export Council President
Category: Policy
(AgNet West) - Outgoing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is expected to become the next president... Full Story
Helping Shape AG Policy
Category: Uncategorized
(AgriNews) - Farmers who want their voice to be heard by policy makers may be glad to hear there are several ways to do so. Steve Howell, director of public affairs at Indiana Corn Growers Association and Indiana Soybean Alliance... Full Story
Mooove into the Future of Dairy
Category: Dairy
(Agri News) - The future for dairy farming seems uncertain at times, with milk prices up and down every few years. Many farmers have taken a new approach to business. The Dairy Extension Tour in Central Minnesota Oct. 25-26 brought producers and educators from Minnesota and South Dakota to four farms that have thought a little bit outside the box... Full Story
Top winter wheat yields forecast in U.S., Indiana
(AgriNews) - A record winter wheat yield of 50.5 bushels per acre is projected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Full Story
Price pressures continue
(AgriNews) - Larger domestic and global grains and oilseeds supplies and reduced price prospects are forecast Full Story
Winter wheat acreage keeps sliding
Category: Grains
(AgriNews) - The downward trend in winter wheat seedings continued into its third year. The U.S. Department Full Story
Sugar beets yield 29.9 tons per acre
Category: Sugar
(AgriNews) - Farmers harvested a record sugar beet crop this year, said Todd Geselius, vice president of Full Story
Soybean yield hikes possible despite lower prices
(AgriNews) - It’s called the Corn Belt for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean soybeans can’t play an even Full Story
Corn prices may return to ‘more reasonable levels’
(AgriNews) - Corn’s return to low prices last seen five years ago has sparked demand interest after back-to-back record Full Story
Crop tour shows potential Midwest yields
(AgriNews) - Last week's rains came in the nick of time for Minnesota's corn and soybean crop, said Chip Flory on the final Full Story
Hangover from acreage report persists
(AgriNews) - It’s been couple of weeks since the planted acres report took the commodity market by surprise with Full Story
Wheat growers pleased with planting conditions
(AgriNews) - Nearly ideal conditions have greeted wheat producers in southern Illinois, as planting wraps up in most areas. Full Story
Corn, soybean, wheat acreage up in USDA report
(AgriNews) - Total corn acreage not seen in 75 years was projected for this growing season by the USDA Full Story
Weather key to corn, soybean balance sheet, says economist
Category: Oilseeds
(AgriNews) - The drought now creeping over much of the eastern Corn Belt and southwest U.S. hadn’t started, the day was sunny and the corn in west-central Iowa looked good. Full Story
