What's Making News
Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 95.3 million acres of corn in 2026, down 3% from last year, according to the Prospective ... Read entire story
Damian Mason can make any room laugh, but he didn't come to the Huntington University Ag Breakfast to put on a show ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
The 2025 Purdue Farmland Value and Cash Rent Survey suggests that Indiana farmland values remain historically strong, though there are ... Read entire story
Progressive Farmer's Todd Neeley reported that "the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized 2026-27 Renewable Fuel Standard ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
More cows produce more milk. USDA's latest data illustrates that as February production totaled 18.255 billion pounds, up 2.9% from ... Read entire story
The USDA's March Hogs and Pigs report puts the March 1 inventory of all hogs and pigs at 74.3 million head, down about 1.5% from last ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
Spring often just burst onto the southern Illinois farm of my youth. One morning you'd see a green blade of something peeking through ... Read entire story
A few years back, I noticed a 4-H mom pouring Gatorade into a bucket of water at our county fair. She started doing that a week before ... Read entire story