Hoosier Ag Today

Despite the cold, wet weather across Indiana this past week, corn planting progressed another 9% and soybeans another 7%. Indiana corn and soybeans are both 51% planted according to USDA’s Crop Progress report released Monday afternoon. Struggles

More than six years after the last major Farm Bill became law, pressure is mounting on the Senate to deliver what farm-state lawmakers describe as urgently needed financial relief for an agricultural economy battered by falling commodity

The U.S. Department of Justice is intensifying its investigation into possible antitrust violations in the beef packing industry, prompting renewed calls from ranching groups for greater competition and market transparency. Federal officials said investigators are examining whether

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a final rule implementing the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, restoring whole and reduced-fat (2%) milk options in federal

Final corn yield when this growing season is complete and harvest begins is determined by conditions throughout the season, but agronomists say roughly the first month after the seed goes in is a very critical time. Channel®

Indiana farmers and agribusiness owners are reporting steep increases in property tax assessments on livestock barns, grain facilities and storage structures this year, with some agricultural buildings seeing assessed values climb by as much as 300 percent

Students from a small northern Indiana school have achieved what educators and organizers believe may be an unprecedented sweep at one of the nation’s premier agricultural science competitions, earning both the national championship and reserve national championship

As Indiana farmers move deeper into planting season, crop disease experts at Purdue University are urging growers to take advantage of an expanding network of digital monitoring tools designed to track potentially devastating outbreaks in corn, soybean

  For the weekend, we look to stay cool with a continued damp setup for both days. Saturday, features clouds and limited sunshine. We’ll have to deal with another round of scattered showers trying to develop over

A sprawling new soybean processing facility that opened Thursday in Shelby County is being hailed by agricultural leaders and state officials as a milestone in the growing race to secure domestic supplies of plant-based protein, as global