Hoosier Ag Today

In the first set of government estimates since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, USDA’s much-anticipated World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) Report had a bearish impact across the board in the grain markets, sending corn

Indiana native Ted McKinney has been serving as an ag leader for many years. During President Trump’s first term, McKinney served as USDA’s Undersecretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. Because of his leadership, he’s

State health officials are now reporting that 41 commercial poultry farms in northern Indiana with a total of 539,810 birds have been impacted by the virus known as bird flu since Oct. 9. All of the cases

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently led the largest USDA agribusiness trade mission in the history of the U.S. to Mexico City. During the trip to Mexico, 41 U.S. businesses, 33 cooperators and agriculture advocacy groups, six

The 2025 crop is mostly out of the fields now, and variable yields mimicked the weather this year. Disease and its impact also were varied across Midwest geographies, in a year when there were major concerns about

President Trump signed a funding bill late Wednesday evening to reopen the federal government, which has ended the longest shutdown of the federal government in U.S. history. The House approved the bill just hours earlier in a

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association announced its continued support for the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act. The legislation would increase marketing opportunities for smaller meat processors and give consumers more options to buy

Chinese purchases of soybeans from the U.S. appear to have stalled only two weeks after the U.S. touted a wide-ranging trade truce between the two countries. Bloomberg said it appeared to show a thawing in relations between

During her recent Indiana farm visit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins spoke about government overreach of family farms. How is USDA getting involved in addressing these issues?   “All of a sudden, this sweet little farmer from Cranberry, New Jersey became the face

According to new data from the Crop Protection Network, soilborne threats like Soybean Cyst Nematode, Sudden Death Syndrome, and Red Crown Rot caused millions of dollars in yield losses during 2024 alone. “SDS and nematodes are the