Hoosier Ag Today

A tentative easing of tensions between the United States and China is rippling through America’s farm belt, where a new trade commitment from Beijing is being greeted less as a windfall than as a rare measure of

Indiana’s top business, agriculture and life sciences leaders on Tuesday launched “BioHeartland,” a new regional identity aimed at unifying the state’s sprawling agbioscience sector and sharpening its pitch to global investors, companies and talent. The initiative, developed

Contract talks between BP and the United Steelworkers Local 7-1 resumed briefly Monday but ended without progress, extending a two-month lockout in northeast Indiana that has sidelined roughly 800 workers at one of the nation’s largest oil

A federal judge in Illinois has given preliminary approval to a $99 million settlement that could reshape how farmers repair their own equipment, marking a significant moment in a years-long legal fight over the “right to repair”

The visit was brief, but its implications could stretch across Indiana and the Midwest for decades. When Stephen Vaden stepped off a plane in Indianapolis last Thursday, he wasn’t just touring office space—he was advancing a sweeping

  Planting progress continues to wow across the state, and now parts of northern Indiana are joining in the fun. Indiana corn and soybean planting numbers are identical in this week’s USDA Crop Progress Report. 67% of

The United Soybean Board has launched the Soy Farmer Support Hub, a new online resource designed to help farmers access practical, research-backed tools for day-to-day challenges on the farm. Available through the Soy Checkoff, the hub organizes

Mung Chiang, the president of Purdue University, will step down at the end of June to become the next president of Northwestern University, university officials announced Monday. Chiang, who has served as Purdue’s president since January 2023,

The Trump administration expects China to commit to purchasing “double-digit billions” of American agricultural products annually in the coming years, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Friday, offering a potentially significant lifeline to American farmers battered by

A federal judge in California has allowed the Trump administration’s revised wage framework for temporary agricultural workers to remain in effect, rejecting a union-backed effort to halt a rule that farm groups say will reshape labor costs