It's Fair Time!
The cows were mooing and the smoke from barbecued chicken was wafting through the air. The Elkhart County 4-H Fair has arrived in Goshen ... Read entire story
Ashton Yates, 11, of Plymouth earned over $29,000 in the emotional sale of his barrow last Friday at the 4-H fair auction in Argos. Dozens of Marshall ... Read entire story
What's Making News
Imagine a barn where robots milk cows on their own schedule.
Brand Dairy Farm spent $5 million to build that barn ... Read entire story
Hardly a dry eye was left during the swine sale at the Marshall County 4-H auction last Friday in Argos as bids rose above $10,000 in support of ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
I remember visiting Epcot at Disney World with my family. I must have been 10 or 11. One exhibit really stuck with me—it was called ... Read entire story
Every time Fred Below and Connor Sible meet with Illinois farmers, they get the same question. "What's the story with these biologicals? ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
Last week, I reported that the Agriculture Department raised its 2025 and 2026 milk production forecasts in the latest World Agricultural Supply ... Read entire story
Newsweek's Hugh Cameron reported that "ground beef prices across the U.S. continue to reach new highs, driven by shrinking cattle ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
We all know the old adage "corn is knee high by the Fourth of July," but most farmers know that nowadays, thanks to technological advancements ... Read entire story
In an apparent lightning strike of insight, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins offered her solution to what she and her GOP ... Read entire story