Hoosier Ag Today

On the final Tuesday in April, C.J. Fleenor accomplished something he had never done while farming the rolling hills of Orange County in southwestern Indiana. Under a clear, rare window of cooperative weather, he shut off his

John Deere has agreed to a sweeping antitrust settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and five states, resolving a federal lawsuit that accused the agricultural manufacturing giant of illegally trapping American farmers in a high-priced monopoly for

For decades, a quiet but devastating divergence has been unfolding across the American landscape. Beginning in the late 1990s, the historic health advantage enjoyed by rural Americans eroded, replaced by a mortality rate that began to outpace

The Trump administration’s decision not to grant an automatic 16-year extension of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) generated little reaction across commodity markets, with analysts saying traders had long expected the move and viewed it as part of

For most high school and college students, graduation marks the beginning of a career. For a select handful of members of the National FFA Organization, it can also mark the beginning of a year spent traveling the

Silicon Valley has spent the last few years pitching artificial intelligence to aid with global agriculture—promising autonomous tractors, algorithmically perfected fertilizer scripts, and predictive crop analytics that can out-smart a changing climate. But across the American Heartland,

Women farmland owners and agricultural decision-makers are invited to gather in Noblesville next week for a Women4theLand Learning Circle. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, and is open to women who own farmland or play

For years, Brazil was one of the most important overseas customers for American ethanol, offering a lucrative export market for corn growers across the U.S. Midwest. Today, that trade relationship has become the center of a widening

Inside the roaring, high-decibel confines of the Riverview Health Arena in Noblesville, thousands of teenagers dressed in identical, stark-blue corduroy jackets are cheering with an intensity usually reserved for rock concerts. It is the 97th Indiana FFA

American corn farmers grew a historic, record-shattering crop last year, anchoring an industrial economic engine that drives $142 billion in total economic activity across the United States, according to a comprehensive study released this month by the