Hoosier Ag Today

After enduring two punishing years of disease-driven flock losses and razor-thin margins, Indiana turkey growers are finally seeing relief on their balance sheets. Stronger wholesale prices, brisk domestic consumption and surging exports have lifted farm-level returns across

When it comes to managing nitrogen and protecting crops from disease, there’s no magic formula that works for every farmer. AgriGold Agronomist George Madison says one of the biggest mistakes growers can make is assuming that what

With tight profit margins, stubborn production costs and uncertainty surrounding the agricultural economy, Indiana farmers face another year in which sound management decisions could make the difference between profitability and financial strain. Against that backdrop, Purdue University’s

Farmers could face another growing threat to already-tight profit margins as an aging and shrinking U.S. inland barge fleet threatens to drive up the cost of moving grain to domestic and international markets. A new report from

Tuesday’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report from USDA delivered a double-barreled bullish shock to grain markets, cutting national corn yield projections and pulling U.S. soybean carryout down to a razor-thin 6.5% stocks-to-use ratio. Following

A year of numerous variables from planting to harvest time, has predictably concluded with varying yields for northwest Indiana farmers. Pat McMullan, Channel Seed sales agronomist in that corner of the state, says yields may be down

Twenty-seven Indiana FFA chapters are receiving a combined $100,000 investment in agricultural education through a new grant program designed to strengthen classroom instruction, expand hands-on learning opportunities and prepare students for careers in Indiana’s agriculture industry. Northern

For American wheat growers, the Hessian fly is an old and relentless enemy. Ever since the tiny pest arrived on U.S. shores during the Revolutionary War, it has quietly siphoned off farm profits, causing hundreds of millions

 What happens when a health system stops treating food as advice and starts treating it as infrastructure? Across central Indiana, farm families are accustomed to seeing crops as the lifeblood of rural economies and national food

Harvest across Indiana is rapidly closing in on the finish line, with USDA’s latest crop progress report indicating corn harvest is 87% complete and soybean harvest stands at 93% statewide. In Northeast Indiana, however, combines still have