What's Making News
Trade and its impact on agricultural commodity prices received top billing during the Great Lakes Crop Summit, as Gregg Doud, chief ... Read entire story
A group of Indiana soybean farmers recently completed a nine-day trip to Argentina to learn about the country's agricultural ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
Many economic policy discussions develop a language of their own and the farm bill is no exception. As discussion of new farm legislation to replace ... Read entire story
At the recent American Farm Bureau Federation annual convention in San Juan Puerto, Pico, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced several ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
The farm milk spigot slowed a bit in December. The Agriculture Department's preliminary data has December output at 18.93 billion pounds, ... Read entire story
U.S. agricultural exports to China in fiscal year (FY) 2022 were $36.4 billion and surpassed the previous year's record with ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
Farmland assessments for property taxes are going up. So are home, rental housing and business assessments. Property tax misery has a lot of company ... Read entire story
Bruce Rastetter, Io-wa's longtime agricultural and political power center, has a sixth sense when it comes to making ... Read entire story